Helping You Help Children Communicate

Make the most of everyday moments to build children’s early language, social and literacy skills.

The Hanen Centre supports all the important adults in a young child’s life to turn everyday interactions into motivating, powerful opportunities to build children’s communication skills.

For professionals

Workshops

Enrich your early language intervention services by engaging and coaching the most important adults in children’s lives. Our workshops show you how to use principles of adult learning to support and coach parents to use research-based, responsive interaction strategies during their everyday interactions with their child. In so doing, they make early intervention a natural, ongoing and enjoyable process.

From an SLP who attended a Hanen Workshop…

“…the ideas for how to teach parents and empower families are just what I was missing. And the organization of the materials and progression of topics will help me deliver the strategies in bite-sized pieces. Looking forward to transforming from ‘Magic SLP who does the things’ to ‘Family support person.’”

From a parent who attended an It Takes Two to Talk® Program…

“The It Takes Two to Talk® program has given life a whole new meaning – it’s brighter, happier, less confusing/frustrating. We have learned new and wonderful ways to communicate with our daughter and she with us.”

For PARENTS

Programs

Your child’s best communication learning happens while connecting and having fun with you every day. If you’re concerned about your child’s communication, we have research-based programs and resources that fit into your daily life and help you maximize your child’s opportunities to learn important early language and social skills.

What’s New

Browse the latest news and research-based articles on early language, literacy and social skills development.

FEATURED ARTICLE

Tips for Supporting Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Settings

Sep 23, 2024

It can be challenging to know how best to support dual language learners in the classroom, especially if you don’t speak a child’s home language. Here are four tips to help you create a supportive learning environment for these children.

Supporting parents and professionals since

1977

Over

150000

professionals trained
Members trained in over

100

countries
Resources translated into

22

languages
Over

4500

workshops offered
Referenced in over

75

research studies

PROFESSIONALS

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PARENTS

Find a Hanen-certified speech language pathologist

Are you a parent who’s concerned about your child’s communication development? Find a Hanen SLP in your area who can offer you a Hanen program or use the Hanen approach during individual sessions to help your child communicate.