Hanen-It Takes Two to Talk®

It Takes Two to Talk® — The Hanen Program® for Parents of Children with Language Delays 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 increase parents’ capacity to support their child’s communication and language development, thereby maximizing the child’s opportunities for communication development in everyday situations. It Takes Two to Talk is offered to children with receptive and expressive language delays under the age of five, who may or may not have other developmental concerns.

The It Takes Two to Talk Program has the following features:

• It is led by Marisa Whitman Hanen Certified speech-language pathologist (SLP), who has received specialized training at a Hanen certification workshop

• It is offered to groups of parents or 1:1

• It has three major components:

  • An initial assessment of the child’s communication skills and baseline video recordings of the parent-child interaction. 

  • Eight group sessions for parents only (20 hours), where parents learn and practice responsive communication strategies that support their child’s goals.

  • Three Individual video feedback sessions for each parent attending the program. The parent-child interaction is video-recorded and reviewed together with the SLP.

• It is supported by a user-friendly parent guidebook and a detailed leaders guide for use by the SLP

• There are three clusters of Responsive Interaction Strategies that are associated with the social interactive model of language intervention and which parents learn in It Takes Two to Talk:

  Child-oriented behaviors are designed to encourage the child to initiate interaction, thereby fostering frequent episodes of joint interaction around the child’s interests.

  Strategies:

  • Get Face to Face

  • Observe, Wait and Listen™ (OWL™)

  • Follow the Child’s Lead by Joining In, Imitating, Interpreting and Commenting

  Interaction-promoting strategies are designed to foster balanced turn-taking between caregivers and children.

  Strategies:

  • Match Your Turns to Your Child’s Turns

  • Cue your Child to Take a Turn

  • Ask Questions that Keep the Conversation Going

  • Use Routines to SPARK an Interaction

  Language-modeling strategies are designed to expand children’s receptive and expressive language skills. 

  Strategies:

  • Comment

  • Interpret

  • Match What you Say to What’s Happening at the Moment

  • Repeat Important Words

  • Use a Variety of Words; Highlight Your Language

  • Expand your Child’s Message

  HOW IT WORKS:

• 1 live course session per week for 8 weeks

• Live individual coaching sessions (3+)

• Handbook and Workbook

• Q&A every session

• Recorded Replays if you can't join live

• Home plans to keep you focused and supported

NOTE:

Once you join, you will receive all of the welcome forms and the Orientation video.

Live instruction will be Mondays or Wednesdays for 8 weeks and Coaching session will TBD

Access to the replays will be available for 30 days after the program closes.

Payment details~ $888 Paid in Full

or-2 monthly payments of $444

Looking forward to guiding you through this transformational program and watching the magic that you will experience!