You’ve always nurtured and protected your child, and you’ve dreamed the very best for him. But when he’s diagnosed with autism, you’re suddenly overcome with the worst feeling a parent can have – the feeling that you’re powerless 
to help your own child.
Research shows that early intervention is the key to
helping children with autism, but obtaining speech therapy services quickly is not always easy.
You may now be on a long waiting list for an individual consultation with a speech-language pathologist/therapist.
As a parent, you wish you could do more to help your child in the meantime.
We Can Help You
Our mission at The Hanen Centre is to help you to help your child – to give you the tools and the confidence you need to take control of your child’s speech and language development, so you can make every second count while you’re waiting for professional intervention to begin.
 If you can be the one who helps your child communicate so that he can let you know what he wants and what he’s thinking… imagine how good that would feel.
Imagine helping him become less frustrated and more interactive with the world around him.
We can help you make this possible with our More Than Words® resources – a parent guidebook and a companion DVD that have been specifically developed to address the unique needs of parents with pre-school children on the autism spectrum.
These resources will provide you with practical tools you need to enhance your child’s social and communication skills in the context of everyday activities. So taking a bath, going to bed, getting dressed – all of these daily interactions with your child can now become wonderful learning opportunities.
More Than Words® Resources for Parents
The More Than Words guidebook provides you with easy-to-follow step-by-step strategies while the companion DVD shows you real-life examples of the strategies in action. After reading the book, you can watch the companion DVD to see how the strategies are being used by other parents. This will let you verify that you’re applying the strategies correctly.
Here are just a few of the things you’ll learn from the More Than Words guidebook and DVD:
- How to identify your child’s stage of development
- Why your child behaves in certain ways and what you can do about those behaviours
- What motivates your child to communicate
- How to turn everyday activities into opportunities for communication development
- The power of pictures and print in helping your child to understand things
- How to help your child make new friends
- Ways to play, read and use music with your child to enhance his communication development
Like all of The Hanen Centre’s resources for parents, the More Than Words materials have been developed by expert speech-language pathologists and are uniquely grounded in the understanding that you are your child’s best hope for reaching his full communication potential.
Just think about it for a moment, and you’ll know this is true – nobody interacts with a child or spends more time with him than his family. As a parent, you’re the one your child knows, loves and trusts, and the one he's bound to imitate and learn from.
Clinically Proven
The Hanen Centre’s commitment to helping parents help their children stretches back more than 35 years and is based on extensive research.
 The strategies used in the More Than Words book and DVD have been clinically proven to significantly increase the speech and language capabilities of children on the autism spectrum.
Hanen methods and programs are now being used by more than 9000 speech-language and early childhood professionals around the world, as well as by thousands of parents seeking the best possible help for their children.
You may click here for a detailed research summary and empirical evidence supporting our More Than Words strategies.
What Parents Say...
The feedback we receive from parents assures us that More Than Words strategies are changing their lives for the better.
Parents are continually amazed at the results they see, and at just how easy it was to achieve them on their own. One parent explained it like this:
“After I have spent hundreds of dollars on books and thousands of dollars on assessments, I always keep coming back to the fact that More Than Words is the best resource out there. It’s easy to read, all ideas-based, and simple to do… [My doctor] said there was nothing to do but get on a waiting list and wait for an assessment… [Now I have] a book that has millions of ideas for me to do at home.”
So, waiting for an appointment with a speech-language professional doesn’t have to be a frustrating loss of precious time.
During this crucial learning phase of your child’s life, you can be the one to help him learn to communicate.
And Hanen’s practical resources will provide you with the knowledge and the strategies you need to make it happen.
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