What is the Hanen system?

[monkeytrousers]

For late talkers? Anyone experience of this?

the hanen programme is designed to facilitate communication. IN fact it is not designed to get kids to talk - iyswim. Have done the Hanen It takes two to talk programme and use it with our children - eldest has sn. There were other parents doing the course whose children did not talk and would never talk BUT were able to communicate through vocalisation.

Hanen uses a number of strategies to encourage children to communicate - these strategies are ones that can be embedded in daily life - play, getting dressed, in the car, in the bath etc.

I found it brilliant for encouraging both our children to communicate.

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monkeytrousers, I'm doing a Hanen course at the moment. We (the parents on the course) have children whose ages range from under 2 to 4.5, and whose language ranges from completely nonverbal to using sentences and having rudimentary conversations. We're all getting some benefit from it. Plus we get four home visits from a SALT as part of the course which is REALLY useful.

How late is your late talker?

He's 2.6 and is speaking in truncated sentences of 2/3 words, but communicates very well. We have been enrolled onto a 'chatterbox tots' weekly meeting and were told it would probably involve the Hanen technique. I've looked on amazon though and the books are prohibitively expensive.

One Hanen technique that has worked very well for us is "interpreting" or "Saying it as he would if he could". So when DS said "more milk", we said "I want some more milk please Mummy" and when he repeated it we brought the milk. He's gone from 2/3 word truncated sentences to proper sounding sentences almost overnight.

monkeytrousers - books are likely to be cheaper through ebay or even if you order direct from Hanen itself than from amazon.

We do that Suzie40 - only don't wait for him to say it perfectly. But we do reinterpret. He has a lisp, and I'd never thought about it before as I just thought all 2 year olds had one. I'll have a look on Ebay, M27.

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