We proudly offer Individual and Group Parent & Professional Training Programs

The Hanen Centre^®, a charitable organization founded over 30 years ago has earned world wide recognition for its family focused early intervention programs. The Hanen Centre's mission "is to provide the important people in a young child's life with the knowledge and training they need to help the child develop the best possible language, social and literacy skills". Chatterboxes is a certified provider of the Hanen Centre's programs and conducts regular classes for parents and professionals. For more information about the Hanen Centre, please visit: www.hanen.org.

It Takes Two to To Talk^®

The Hanen^® Centre Program for parents is a well-known model of family-focused early language intervention for young children with expressive and/or receptive language delays. The goal of the 10-week workshop (meets 1x per week) is to enable parents to become their child's primary language facilitator, whereby maximizing the child's development in everyday situations. It Takes Two to Talk^® is designed for toddlers and preschool-age children with specific language impairment, as well as children with cognitive and developmental delays under the age of five.

More than Words^®

More Than Words^® is a family-focused program that gives parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related social communication difficulties, practical tools to help their children communicate. More Than Words^® incorporates current best practice guidelines, highlighting the importance of affect, predictability, structure and the use of visual supports to enhance learning in children with ASD. This program is organized around four major goals:

• Improved two-way interaction
• More mature and conventional ways of communicating
• Better skills in communicating for social purposes
• An improved understanding of language

Learning Language and Loving It^®

This popular Hanen Program was specifically designed for Early Childhood Educators/Teachers. Learning Language and Loving It^® is a research-based developmental approach to promoting children's social, language and literacy development within everyday activities and conversations in a variety of early childhood settings including childcare, preschool, nursery school and kindergarten programs. This includes those who are at risk for language delays, those who have language disorders and those who are learning English as a second language. The following early childhood professionals would benefit from this workshop:

• Early childhood educators/teachers
• Center-based or home-based child care providers
• Early childhood literacy consultants
• Professors or instructors in the field of early childhood education