The Hanen Centre - Professionals

Enhance your collaboration with parents and educators

If you work with young children, you know that effectively engaging and supporting their parents and caregivers is key to achieving the greatest impact. At The Hanen Centre, we specialize in supporting you to collaborate with and coach parents and educators so they can facilitate the best possible social, language and literacy skills in young children.

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Workshops

Training for Early Childhood Educators

e-Seminars

Guidebooks

Shareable Content

Workshops

Hanen workshops are highly interactive online trainings that offer evidence-based frameworks for engaging and coaching the important adults in young children’s lives.

You’ll learn how to use the principles of adult education to ensure the best possible learning experience for parents and educators, increasing their confidence and ability to apply what they learn to their everyday interactions with children. By becoming an effective coach, you maximize your impact as you work with and through the parent or educator to extend early intervention and communication support into every part of the child’s day.

Language Delay

It Takes Two to Talk®

22.50 PD Hours / 2.25 ASHA CEUs*

Learn how to apply best practice in coaching for parents of children with language delays. Coach parents both in group and 1-1 contexts so you can build their capacity to support their child’s communication development by using It Takes Two to Talk® strategies in everyday interactions with their child.

Eligibility:
Speech-language pathologist/therapist

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SPARK Communication™

16.50 PD Hours / 0.00 ASHA CEUs*

Learn responsive interaction strategies to support the communication skills of children with language delays, as well as how to provide individual coaching to parents so they can apply these strategies during everyday interactions with their child.

Eligibility:
Early Intervention Professional

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Autism

More Than Words®

23.00 PD Hours / 2.30 ASHA CEUs*

Learn how to apply best practice in coaching for parents of autistic children. Coach parents both in group and 1-1 contexts so you can build their capacity to support their child’s social communication development by using More Than Words® strategies in everyday interactions with their child.

Eligibility:
Speech-Language Pathologist/Therapist

Autism

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TalkAbility™

13.50 PD Hours / 1.35 ASHA CEUs*

Learn a specialized framework for supporting parents of autistic children (ages 4-8) to help their child have more extended conversations and form deeper connections with adults and peers.

Eligibility:
More Than Words® certification and current Hanen membership

Autism

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Hanen 4 “I”s to Socialize™

16.50 PD Hours / 0.00 ASHA CEUs*

Learn responsive interaction strategies to support the social communication skills of autistic children, as well as how to provide individual coaching to parents so they can apply these strategies during everyday interactions with their child.

Eligibility:
Early Intervention Professional

Autism

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Early Childhood Settings

Learning Language and Loving It™

22.50 PD Hours / 2.25 ASHA CEUs*

Learn how to provide outstanding in-service education that gives childcare providers and preschool teachers the skills to facilitate children’s social, language and literacy development in early childhood settings.

Eligibility:
Speech-Language Pathologist or Early Childhood Education Consultant/Trainer

Language & Literacy

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ABC and Beyond™

14.00 PD Hours / 1.40 ASHA CEUs*

Learn how to engage and support educators of 3-5 year-olds to promote emergent literacy development during shared book reading and daily interactions.

Eligibility:
Current Hanen membership and one of the following certifications: It Takes Two to Talk®, More Than Words® or Learning Language and Loving It™

Language & Literacy

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Training for Early Childhood Educators

If you work with children in an early childhood setting, our Teacher Talk™ training (based on the Learning Language and Loving It™ Program) will equip you with key interaction and language-building strategies for nurturing the best possible language, social and literacy skills for all children. If you train or consult to educators, the Learning Language and Loving It™ workshop gives you the option to lead Teacher Talk for educators.

TeacherTalk™ Training Series

22.50 PD Hours / 0.00 ASHA CEUs*

Learn how to build the best possible language, social and literacy skills for all children in early childhood settings.

Eligibility:
Early Childhood Educator

Language & Literacy

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e-Seminars

These short, on-demand online sessions are open to any professional who works with young children and their families. Each session is designed to enhance your knowledge of the latest research on the topic, and also provide you with practical tools and strategies that you can apply right away with families and educators.

2.00 PD Hours / 0.20 ASHA CEUs*

Boosting Peer Play

Language & Literacy

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1.00 PD Hours / 0.10 ASHA CEUs*

Taking Parent Coaching to the Next Level

Language Delay

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2.00 PD Hours / 0.20 ASHA CEUs*

Boosting Bilingual Environments for Young Children

Language & Literacy

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Guidebooks

Drawing on content from their corresponding Hanen Programs, our user-friendly guidebooks are written specifically for parents and educators to help them build children’s language, social and literacy skills. Speech-language pathologists and early childhood professionals integrate these guidebooks into their everyday work to support parents’ and educators’ understanding of concepts and to help them apply powerful responsive interaction strategies during their everyday activities and interactions with children.

Shareable Content

As part of our mission to reach as many children as possible, we offer free, research-based articles and tips to help parents and educators build children’s communication and literacy throughout the day.

Browse our content in the subject areas below, and feel free to share it to supplement your support for families and educators.