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 Autism Spectrum Disorders

Topic

Facilitating Communication and Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders - Hanen More Than Words Parent Training Programme

More Than Words - The Hanen Programme for Parents is a well-known model of family-focused early language intervention for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The goal of More Than Words is to empower parents to become their child’s primary language facilitator, thereby maximising the child’s opportunities for communication and socialisation 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 Autism Spectrum Disorder.

There are three major components of the training programme:

• A pre-programme assessment and baseline videotaping of parent-child interaction
• A minimum of 24 hours (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

Ms Sunitha Sendhilnathan
M.Sc. (Speech Language Pathology)
Certified Hanen ITTT, MTW, LLLI and Talkability trainer
Head, Department of Speech and Language Pathology, SCAS

Mr Kunal Ghosh
M.Sc (Speech Language Pathology)
Certified Hanen ITTT and MTW trainer
Speech Language Therapist, SCAS

Objectives

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

• How to help their children develop improved social and communication skills, how your child learns best and what motivates him/her to communicate, how to make interactions with your child last longer and be more meaningful, tips for using pictures and print to help your child's understanding.
• 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 Department of Speech and Language Pathology at 65855630/631/632.