IT TAKES TWO TO TALK (ITTT) is a family-focussed program for parents of children (birth to five) who have communication delays.
ITTT recognises:
- The importance of involving parents in their child’s early language intervention
- The need to help children and families as early as possible in a child’s life.
This popular program was developed by The Hanen Centre and is recognised around the world. Research provides strong evidence that children with language delay can improve their interaction skills with their parents' help as parents are the most important people in their life for learning and nurturing.
What Parents Learn in ITTT
How to:
- understand your child communication style and the next steps to take help their skills
- recognise what motivates your child to communicate
- turn everyday activities into opportunities for your child to learn language
- respond to your child in ways that improve language learning
- talk and respond so that your child can understand and learn new words and ideas
In this program you will learn strategies such as ‘Let Your Child Lead’, Effective Turn Taking’, OWLing and being a ‘Tuned-in parent’.
All Hanen Programs include:
- A detailed Parent Training Manual (IT TAKES TWO TO TALK – 171 pgs)
- 8 small group workshops (2 ½ hours each week)
- 3 individual home visits from your Hanen Certified Speech Therapist
- Individual feedback sessions of you interacting with your child
- opportunities to meet other parents who are going through similar experiences with their children
Each session is fun and interactive with lots of opportunities to ask questions and meet other parents. Please contact us to register your interest in attending this workshop. A MY SPEECH representative will contact you within 2 working days to get the ball rolling for you and your child.