For The First Time in India,
“IT TAKES TWO TO TALK®”
Certification Workshop for Speech-Language Pathologists
from The HANEN CENTRE, Canada
at Bangalore.
November, 2011
“SEARCH & TEACH©” from NILD (National Institute for Learning Development), USA.
Date : 12th - 13th August, 2011
“Identification & Intervention of Learning Disabilities”
( 8 days - 4 weekends )
For The First Time in India
“IT TAKES TWO TO TALK®”
Certification Workshop for Speech-Language Pathologists
from The HANEN CENTRE, Canada
at Bangalore.
November 2011
The Hanen Centre is a non-profit charitable organization founded in Canada in 1975. Their mission is to provide parents, caregivers, early childhood educators and speech-language pathologists with the knowledge and training they need to help all preschool children develop the best possible language, social and literacy skills, including those children with or at risk of language delays and those with developmental challenges.
The It Takes Two to Talk (ITTT) certification workshop is a three-day train-the-trainer workshop specially designed for Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) led by a trained Hanen Instructor. The ITTT workshop equips SLPs to apply the Hanen approach to working with families of young children with language delays.
Developed by expert speech-language pathologists and grounded in extensive research, the It Takes Two to Talk Program has been proven in clinical practice to have positive effects on the communication development of young children. Naturalistic intervention forms the basis of the It Takes Two to Talk Program. Parents learn practical ways to tweak the way they interact with their child to promote language learning throughout every part of their child’s day.
Highlights of the program:
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The ITTT workshop equips you with an evidence-based, early language intervention program with the tools to effectively involve parents in their child’s intervention. |
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The ITTT workshop teaches you the most effective ways to engage parents to ensure absorption, retention, and generalization of the strategies you teach them. |
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The key component of ‘Video Taping’ the parent-child interactions, maximizes parents' ability to retain the strategies they have learned. |
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The workshop provides you with a complete set of user-friendly resources to support and supplement your therapy. |
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The checklists help you set goals for each child based on their developmental stage. |
Resource Materials:
1. The ITTT Making Hanen Happen Leaders Guide - This step-by-step guide lays out the entire parent program for you, and includes all the handouts and checklists you’ll require to run the program.
2. The ITTT Program Slides DVD (with embedded video clips) - This DVD provides you with the PowerPoint slides you need to lead the program and includes real-life video examples of the strategies in action, allowing for deeper understanding and easy verification for parents that they’re applying the strategies correctly.
3. The ITTT Parent Guidebook and Companion DVD – This is used alongside the program to reinforce what parents learn and to provide them with fresh new ideas for interacting with their children to facilitate language learning.
4. Introduction to Hanen DVD - This DVD serves as an ideal introduction for parents to the Hanen approach.
Clinical Implications:
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Running parent programs (groups of 6-8 parents). |
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Providing a framework for one-to-one therapy sessions for children with language delay. |
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Supplementing home programming by providing videotaped examples and information about what you are doing in therapy. |
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Giving a head start to parents by highlighting key strategies in the guidebook that they can begin to apply while they wait for treatment for their child (if the child is not ready to start intensive Speech-Language Therapy).
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Hanen membership: The ITTT workshop entitles each participant to a one-year Hanen membership. Membership services are offered through a dynamic Hanen member portal and include an excellent archive of clinical and research articles, monthly newsletter with clinical and research updates, networking with members worldwide through discussion forums and on-line groups, downloadable program resources, access to eseminars and much more.
For more details, please visit www.hanen.org
Testimonial — “I am so excited that the Hanen Centre finally agreed to bring The It Takes Two To Talk workshop to India and that FiVE has the honor of hosting the same.
Over the last 10 years, as an SLP working extensively with younger children, I have always believed that family had a larger role to play in the intervention process than just bringing the child to therapy. But the challenge of getting parents more actively involved was initially a hard one and I found myself constantly online looking for resources to help me guide families. That is when I found the Hanen Centre. On a first browse, I thought ‘Well, I am already trying out some of what they are suggesting’ but after a chat with a friend (in USA) who had just completed the It Takes Two to Talk workshop, I realized that what made it a brilliant program is the STRUCTURE. It is so well laid out that you simply have to follow the steps and things fall into place one at a time. The naturalistic approach makes the whole session fun for everyone involved (parents, caregivers, child and therapist). It is the Best thing that has happened to my work! Parents find it most valuable and it can also be easily incorporated into any environment of the child such as other therapy sessions (OT, PT, Special Education etc), school and with the whole family (not just parents).”
S. Sowmya (Director – Services, FiVE), a Hanen certified SLP.
“SEARCH & TEACH©” from NILD (National Institute for Learning Development), USA.
Date : 12th - 13th August, 2011
Trainer: Marty Frens, MA(Learning Disabilities) MEd, is a Certified Professional Educational Therapist.
She has been working in the field of Learning Disabilities for over 30 years.
NILD (National Institute for Learning Development), USA was established in 1982 to assist schools, organizations and individuals in the development of programs for students with specific learning disabilities.
SEARCH & TEACH© is an early identification and intervention program developed to meet the educational needs of young learners before they experience the frustration of learning failure. It is a powerful tool for identifying and preventing various problems in young children.
SEARCH is an early identification testing instrument for children 5 and 6 years of age. It is a 20-minute individual test designed to identify children who are vulnerable to learning difficulty, and to provide profiles of individual strengths and weaknesses in the readiness skills necessary for reading success.
Highlights of SEARCH:
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Consists of three tests of visual perception, two auditory tests, two tests of intermodal skills, and three neuro-developmental tests. |
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Provides norms for children 64-80 months of age, and for individual demographic groups. |
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Can be used with individual children, but is most effective and was intended to be used to scan an entire kindergarten or early first grade class. |
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Can provide a profile of an entire class, benefiting teachers as they plan the scope and sequence of instruction. |
TEACH is a resource book designed to mesh with the SEARCH profile of assets and deficits. It considers a child's strong and weak academic areas and prescribes appropriate instructional tasks (set of fifty-five task cards) basic to Reading and Language development. It provides the rationale, the step by step methodology, and the teaching materials necessary for intervention with children who are found to be vulnerable to learning difficulties as determined by SEARCH.
Highlights of TEACH: The TEACH program prioritizes pre-reading tasks from simple to complex and organizes them into a practical plan of five clusters as ascertained by the results of the SEARCH test.
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Visual |
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Visual-motor |
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Auditory |
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Body-image |
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Intermodal skill clusters |
Together they are a powerful pair —“The strength of SEARCH & TEACH is in early intervention. This twofold approach offers educators an effective tool for catching learning disorders at the beginning of a child's academic career, before the downward spiral of failure begins. With proper and timely identification and intervention, many children can be spared the lifelong consequences of learning disorders.”
Rosa A. Hagin, Ph.D
Date, Venue & Fees: Click here for details
Registration form: Click here to download
NOTE : Candidates will be provided with the kit 6 weeks from the date of registration. If you have registered after 5-July, you can collect the kit from our Bangalore centre once it reaches us. If you need it earlier there will be additional expedited shipping charges.
“Identification & Intervention of Learning Disabilities”
( 8 days - 4 weekends )
Teacher Training Program 8 days (4 weekends) A child’s most active learning process begins when he/she starts formal education in a school and teachers are the most fortunate to witness this period of remarkable change. Teachers get the most opportunities to observe this unfolding process and gather important information about how well a child is developing, learning and thinking.
While most children manage to master skills and concepts on instruction, some children may need more time (compared to peers) to acquire the same. When young children are unable to respond appropriately to the classroom and school environment, it is important for the teacher to be able to identify the issue at hand and address the same at the earliest. And to do so, teachers must be equipped with the right set of knowledge and skills.
The Program Awareness is the key to Intervention. Being aware of the difficulties a child may have and the possible reasons for the same, enhances the chances for the teacher to do something about it (intervention) and provide the child with a positive learning environment. This program is aimed at empowering the teacher with strategies and tools for today’s inclusive classroom set up.
Training packages are designed to enhance the teacher’s ability to:
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Identify children with special needs and make appropriate referral. |
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Screen and make Informal diagnosis of Learning Disabilities. |
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Use prescribed Strategies for Intervention to develop better |
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- Reading
- Reading Comprehension
- Spelling
- Written Expression
- Study skills
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Provide instruction around core thinking and learning skills to help students manage large amounts of information, plan and organize long-term projects.
The topics would be direct instruction from the following reputed programs:
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Multisensory teaching based on Orton Gillingham (USA) |
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Alpha to Omega teaching, reading and writing by Dr B Hornsby (UK) |
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Perception and Pre-skills from Before Alpha (UK) |
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Learning Strategies from the Strategies Intervention Model (USA) |
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Content Enhancement Routines from the Strategies Intervention Model (USA) |
Program details: Click here for details
Trainer’s profiles: Click here for details
Date, Venue & Fees: Click here for details
Registration form: Click here to download
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