Building Language While You WaitPart 1: Love Grows Brains and

Routines Support Learning

Birth-2 ½ years

February 6, 2013

You have concerns

that your child is ”not talking” as

expected.

This webinar will give you tips and tools

to help your child start to communicate

while you wait for an assessment

by a Speech-Language Pathologist.

Children need

relationships

that are

Predictable, Predictable, Predictable, Predictable, Secure, and LovingSecure, and LovingSecure, and LovingSecure, and Loving

Even one strong attachment between a

caring adult and child is predictive

of later social, academic, and

emotional development.

A child turns

to his parent/caregiver

in times of distress.

A

uses the parent/caregiver

as a “secure base”

from which to venture out

and explore

her environment.

• Anxious/Resistant

• Anxious/Avoidant

• Disorganized Attachment

From You Make the Difference® DVD, 2005,

The Hanen Centre

From the You Make the Difference® DVD,

2005, The Hanen Centre

From the You Make the Difference®

guidebook (Manolson, Ward and Dodington,

1995), The Hanen Centre

From the It Takes Two to Talk® guidebook

(Pepper and Weitzman, 2004), The Hanen

Centre

From the You Make the Difference®

guidebook (Manolson, Ward and Dodington,

1995), The Hanen Centre

From the You Make the Difference®

guidebook (Manolson, Ward and Dodington,

1995), The Hanen Centre

From the Early Language Program® Starting

Early…Red Flags and Treatment for Toddlers

on the Autism Spectrum, The Hanen Centre

1) The Hanen Centre (www.hanen.org)

It Takes Two to Talk

You Make the Difference

More Than Words

2) Make the Connection (www.firstthreeyears.org) www.toronto.ca/health/parenting/connection.htm

3) Parent Supportwww.lifewithababy.com

4) Early Literacy Specialists (www.familydaycare.com/oeyccentres/els.html)

5) Private Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists

(www.osla.on.ca)

6) Triple P Parenting Programs (www.triplepontario.ca)7) KINARK (www.kinark.on.ca/getInvolved/volunteer_york.aspx)

8) Blue Hills (www.bluehillscentre.ca)

9) Early Intervention Services York Region

(www.york.ca/departments/community+services+and+housing

/family+and+children+services/early_intervention_services.ht

m)

10) Kerry’s Place Autism Services (www.kerrysplace.org)11) Theraplay (www.theraplay.org;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5IoEDHY-Y4)

12)Building Resiliency (www.reachinginreachingout.com)

13)Your Family Physician - 18 month well baby visit

(www.children.gov.on.ca/.../health/enhanced_18-month.aspx)14)Post-Partum Depression: Healthy Babies, Healthy Children

(www.children.gov.on.ca;

(http://www.york.ca/Services/Public+Health+and+Safety/Child+and+Fa

mily+Health/default+Child+and+Family+Health.htm)

15) Center for Early Education and Development(http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ceed/publications/earlyreport/earlyreportwint

er1991.html)