hi there my name is Danielle Bowden and
I'm a speech-language pathologist with
the Hanan Center today I'm going to talk
to you about the important role that
parents play in their child's language
development you may find this
information helpful if you feel like
you're worried about your child's
language development or if you've just
discovered that your child has a
language delay and you'd like to offer
them the best possible support here at
the Hanan Center we believe that parents
are and should be their child's best
language teacher and we're here to help
you do just that it all started back in
the 70s when it was almost unheard of
for parents to have a role in their
child's early language intervention
instead speech-language pathologists
would often offer therapy for about one
hour a week and it was often done behind
closed doors where the parents have
little or no knowledge of what happened
inside this left parents in a position
of having little or no role in providing
the special support that their child
needed as you can imagine there was a
major gap in this type of language
intervention because it didn't take into
account how and when children learn
language best research shows that
children don't learn language by being
taught instead they learn language by
having natural everyday interactions
with the most important adults in their
lives so what this means is that when
you're talking to your child while
you're walking to the park or when
you're talking to your child while you
brush to their teeth you're giving them
all the language that they need to learn
so your role in supporting your child's
early language development it's so very
important because you spend more time
interacting and talking to your child
then your speech-language pathologists
ever could because of this gives so many
more opportunities to help your child to
learn and use language like when they're
getting in the bathtub or if you're out
in the backyard playing and your child
is most comfortable with you learning
from you is natural they've been
learning from you since the day they
were born
one of the most important elements and
helping your child to learn language is
to build on his interests and
preferences and who knows your child
better than you it's no surprise to
learn that research shows parents who do
this are as effective or in some cases
even more effective than a
speech-language pathologists in
supporting their child's language
development this makes sense when you
think about it it's just as effective or
even more effective because your child
is getting language intervention every
day many times a day during their
everyday interactions with you and
because of this your child won't even
realize that they're learning so by
working with your child's
speech-language pathologists the therapy
will be focused on helping you at the
parent get the knowledge and skills you
need to support your child's language
development here at the Hanan Center we
help parents like you take on this role
in helping their child to communicate if
you're interested in finding a hand and
certified speech-language pathologist
who runs programs and offers the hand
and approach in their everyday work
please click on find a hand as each
language pathologist on our homepage I
hope you found this information helpful
and feel free to leave a comment or a
question here if you have any thanks for
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