Research shows that…

• Working with and through parents can be a highly effective way to help children achieve their potential in early communication and language development.
• Parents can learn to be their child’s best language facilitators – but only with the partnership and skilled coaching of a speech-language professional.

At The Hanen Centre, we specialize in supporting speech-language pathologists to become effective parent coaches. We’ve developed a variety of early intervention frameworks that enable you to effectively coach and collaborate with parents to support the communication development of:

• Children with language delays/disorders
• Children who are Late Talkers
• Autistic children
• Children who may benefit from social communication support

Anchored in parent coaching best practice, Hanen early interventions are:

• Capacity-building – Designed to build parents’ confidence and competence to support their child’s communication development through the use of responsive interaction strategies.
• Naturalistic – Focused on the child’s everyday life and enjoyable interactions with caregivers in order to make early intervention a natural, ongoing process.
• Child-led and strengths-based – Help parents understand their child better and use their child’s individual strengths and interests as a basis for helping them learn.
• Evidence-based – Based on extensive research in early language and communication intervention.