Let's Connect ASD Training

We're busy planning for our Autumn TalkAbility course. If you are interested in learning about ways to help your child's communication and social interaction skills please give us a call. Hanen TalkAbility is a Speech & Languge Therapy programme for parents of verbal children with ASD. Give Charlotte or Jane a call to find out more and book your place.

Our next TalkAbility course is due to commence in March. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this programme.

Looking for ways to develop your child’s social interaction and play skills? Do you need ways to help your child understand other people and what they are thinking and feeling? If so then The Hanen Program for parents of verbal children on the Autism Spectrum is the course for you. We are excited to be starting our next Talkability program in March. Information attached

Looking for ways to develop your child’s social interaction and play skills? Do you need ways to help your child understand other people and what they are thinking and feeling? If so then The Hanen Program for parents of verbal children on the Autism Spectrum is the course for you. We are excited to be starting our next Talkability program in March. Information attached

Congratulations to our TalkAbility graduates who have just completed our winter programme 😊
Spring TalkAbility programme will commence in March. Please contact us if you would like to discuss your child's suitability for the Hanen TalkAbility Program.

Well done to our Talk Ability families on completing the final home visit. We are delighted to see changes in conversation skills and tuning- in to others thoughts and feelings. Parents are now applying strategies to support their child's interactions with their siblings and peers. Well done to everyone 😊

John Quigley

The Best flu shot out there !!

Happy New Year to all of our TalkAbility families. We hope that you have had fun over the Christmas break including Hanen TalkAbility strategies (the 4S's, I-Cues & Tuning-In vocabulary) in your conversations, play and sharing books with your child. This term we look forward to helping you to apply these strategies to help your child to play and interact with other children.

Well done to our TalkAbility families who competed the first home visit last week. Heading into session 3 this week successfully using TalkAbility strategies:
- 'Hook's' to get your child to look.
- 4 S's, stress, say less, go slow and show to highlight non verbal language.
- 4 I's to help your child take more turns in conversation; Include interests, Introduce new ideas, Insist on your turn and Interpret your child's messages.

Looking forward to meeting our new families on the TalkAbility Parent Program over thhe next couple of days

The next Hanen TalkAbility Programme is begining next week. If you are interested in joining this group please contact Jane or Charlotte at Lets Connect.

Charlotte Cogan and Jane Hegarty have recently set up Let's Connect ASD Parent Training. Charlotte and Jane are specialist speech and language therapists working with children with ASD and their families. They have over twn years experience in this field and have worked with children from two to eighteen years. When it comes to supporting a child's conversation and social interaction skills they have found the Hanen TalkAbility Program for Parents is the most successful approach. During small group sessions you will learn startegies to impliment with your child. There are also individual sessions at home with the child.

TalkAbility Parent Training for children with ASD.
Does your child find it hard to have conversations with others?
Does your child find it hard to understand what other people might be thinking or feeling?
Does this impact on their ability to form and maintain relationships?
Can your child take at least two turns spontaneously in conversations?
Does your child find it hard to participate in play with other children?
If you answered yes, Let's Connect Parent Training can help.

“After my child learned to talk, I didn’t know what to do next – I just knew he needed more help. The TalkAbility program gave me 1000 new ideas on how to help him progress to the next level, both in his conversation and play with other children. He still plays with the little boy he meant through the program"
- Tracy, mother of Aiden

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Is the Hanen TalkAbility Program suitable for my family?

TalkAbility parent training is also available for families in South Lee

Why choose the Hanen Talkability Parent Program?
DeVerey & Hagman (2016) recently published an article about best practice for SLT interventions for children with ASD. Children who received parent implimented intervention demonstrate the greatest improvements in their communication skills. The Hanen TalkAbility Program exemplifies key features of successful parent programmes that were reviewed.

Our next course running this September