The Hanen Program
The Hanen Program
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 empower parents to become their child’s primary language facilitator, 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 (Weitzman, Girolametto & Drake, 2017).
Picture Exchange Communication System
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
The primary goal for PECS is to teach functional communication. PECS consists of six phases using picture icons and begins by teaching a child to initiate a request of a desired item. The system goes on to teach discrimination of pictures and how to put them together in sentences. Children who have difficulty initiating conversations or difficulty with communicating in general may benefit
from PECS.
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT)
PROMPT is a tactile-kinesthetic approach that uses touch cues to the articulators (jaw, tongue, lips) to manually guide the child through a targeted word, phrase or sentence. Those diagnosed with autism, apraxia/dyspraxia, dysarthria, cerebral palsy, articulation delay/disorder, or who are non-verbal may benefit from PROMPT.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Yvonne has had extensive Autism Spectrum Disorder training consisting of strategies and interventions to help individuals with autism improve their social communication skills as well as improve their function in everyday life.
