UPCOMING EVENTS

Caregivers / Parents' Training

Date:	Every Saturday from 28 January to 31 March 2012
Time:	09:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Venue:	Training Rooms 1 and 2, Level 4, Cerebral Palsy Centre
Target Audience:	Parents / Caregivers of young children with expressive and/or receptive language disorders

Topic

Hanen It Takes Two to Talk Parent Training Programme

It Takes Two to Talk® - The Hanen Program® for Parents is a well-known model of family-focused early language intervention for young children with expressive and/or receptive language disorders. The goal of It Takes Two to Talk is to empower parents to become their child’s primary language facilitator, thereby maximising the child’s opportunities for communication development in everyday situations.

The training programme is led by Hanen Certified Speech Language Pathologists (SLP) who have received specialised training at a Hanen certification workshop, and is offered to groups of parents (up to eight families per programme) of young children with expressive and/or receptive language disorders.

There are three major components of the training programme:

• A pre-programme assessment and baseline videotaping of parent-child interaction
• A minimum of 16 hours (six to eight sessions) of group training for parents; and
• Three individual video feedback sessions for each parent attending the programme (parent-child interaction is videotaped by and reviewed with the SLP)

Trainers

Mr Lee Er Ker
M.Sc. (SLP), M.A. (App Ling), P.G.D.E. (Dist)
Certified NDT (Paediatrics) (USA), certified Hanen ITTT trainer Speech Language Therapist, SCAS

Ms Paulene Shekinah
Masters in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Certified Hanen ITTT trainer Speech Language Therapist, SCAS

Objectives

Upon completion of this training, parents/caregivers will learn:

• Essential, basic concepts about communication and language - e.g., the development of communication; differences between expressive and receptive language; the importance of the child’s active participation in frequent, extended turn-taking episodes.
• To apply language facilitation strategies flexibly across contexts so intervention becomes a natural part of parent-child interactions through video recordings and joint discussions with the trainers.

For more information, please call the Speech and Language Pathology Department at 65855630/631/632.