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One-to-One 12  Session Parent Coaching in The More Than Words — The Hanen Programme, with remote supervision of activities with your child at home.

The programme is  for parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Social Communication Difficulties.

As a parent, you know how challenging it can be for your child with Autism Spectrum Disorder or other social communication difficulties to interact meaningfully with others and connect with the world around him.
Hanen programme More Than Words is designed specifically for parents of children ages 5 and under on the autism spectrum and with other social communication difficulties as is part of the Early Intervention.
Addressing the unique needs of these children, the programme provides parents with the tools, strategies and support they need to help their children reach their full communication potential.

The goals of our one-to-one coaching programme is to empower you to help your child reach the following goals:

1. Improved social communication and back-and-forth interactions
2. Improved play skills
3. Improved imitation skills

You will find out:

• What motivates your child to communicate
• How to use your knowledge about your child to set appropriate and realistic goals
• How to make interactions with your child last longer
• Tips for using pictures and print to help your child’s understanding
• Strategies for how to talk so that your child understands you
• Strategies for developing your child’s play skills
• Ways to help your child make friends

Agenda:
Session 1:  Pre-programme consultation for your family with your SEN teacher and ASD consultant to take baseline information about your child and establish goals
Session 2: Get to Know More About Your Child’s Communication (Ch. 1 and 2) 
Strategy: Give your child a reason to communicate and then wait
Session 3:  Follow Your Child’s Lead (Ch. 3)
Strategy: The Four “I”s – Include Your Child’s Interest, Interpret, Imitate, Intrude
Session 4:  Make the Connection with People Games and Songs (Ch. 4, 5 and 9) 
Strategy: R.O.C.K
Session 5:  Help Your Child Understand What You Say 
R.O.C.K. in Your Routines (Ch. 6 and 8)
Strategy: The 4 “S”s – Say Less, Stress, Slow, Show
Session 6:  Use Visual Helpers (Ch. 7) 
Strategy: Visual Helpers
Session 7:  Bring on the Books (Ch. 10) 
Strategies: All
Session 8 Take Out the Toys (Ch. 11) 
Strategies: All
Session 9:  Let’s Make Friends (Ch. 12) 
Session 10 - 12 - Remote supervision of your activities with your child. 3 hours are allocated throughout the online coaching programme  and they can be scheduled flexibly at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of your coaching programme as six 30 minute supervisory mini-sessions.

During our coaching programme you will use the book More Than Words: A Parent’s Guide to Building Interaction and Language Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Social Communication Difficulties, which you will need to purchase before starting our online coaching programme. 

You will be coached online how to use all the strategies with the examples  how you can use these strategies during everyday routines and activities with your child.
After completing the programme, you can keep coming back to our session presentation slides and your guidebook to remind yourself of what you have learned and to get new ideas and support as your child progresses and new goals are set.

Benefits:

• Hanen More than Words Coaching Programme focuses on your natural, day-to-day life with your child.
• You’ll discover how to take everyday activities like meal time, story time and bath time and use them to help your child improve his communication and social skills.
• And you’ll have fun together while you’re doing it!
• It's an approach  that is easy to understand and easy to put into practice.
• With every strategy you learn, you’ll be given lots of opportunity to practice and discuss it so that you won’t forget it.

Here’s an example of a strategy you’ll learn in the programme
“R.O.C.K. in your Routine”
Repeat what you say and do
Offer opportunities for your child to take a turn
Cue your child to take his turn; and
Keep it fun! Keep it going!The R.O.C.K. strategy can be used during any activity you do with your child to foster longer, more meaningful interactions and improved social skills.

One-to-One Parent Training - 12 sessions with remote supervision of your activities with your child at home

Title: How to Deliver Play-Based Naturalistic Social Communication Therapy
- A step-by-step comprehensive programme for parents/professionals to become Social Communication therapists for a child with ASD or/and speech delay.

Why use this programme? 

1. Studies show that, with training, parents can use the same strategies as specialists and be as just the same, if not more, effective.
2. Parents interact with and teach their child during both play and meaningful daily routines, such as mealtime, bathtime, bedtime.
3. Parents know their children better than anyone else.
4. Parents form special bond with their children, thanks to which they can be successful intervention providers. 
5. Parents set higher expectations from their children to perform new skills and hence, the developmental outcomes may be better as more therapy hours means better results.

Programme Agenda:
Session 1- Introduction to the programme of naturalistic play based social communication therapy. Baseline Assessment for your Child. Arranging Goals / Activity Sheets/ Activity Schedule for your Child
Session 2 - Social Communication Development
Session 3 - How to Set up Your Home for Success
Session 4 - How to Follow Your Child's Lead
Session 5 - How to Adjust Your Communication
Session 6 - How to Make Play Interactive
Session 7 - How and Why o Teach Initiation
Session 8 - How to Teach Language
Session 9 - How to Expand your Child's Language
Session 10 - How to Teach Imitative Play
Session 11 - How to Expand your Child's Skills
Session 12 - How to Expand your Child's Motivation to Communicate

Included:
Powerpoint presentation from 12 sessions for you to use during our programme and in the future as a reference point.
A resource Pack: Social Communication Checklist, Daily Activity Schedule, Goal Sheet, Homework Sheet, Reflection Sheet, Links to the research studies on the benefits of early childhood behavioural and parent-led interventions in ASD.
A video library with demonstrated evidence-based techniques based on the Early Start Denver Model, Pivotal Response Training, Hanen More Than Words Programme, Verbal Behaviour, Relationship Developmental Intervention. 

HOW TO DELIVER BILATERAL INTEGRATION THERAPY FOR YOUR CHILD
- a 12 session online programme that includes theory and a practical application of a step-by-step remotely supervised parent-led programme. A very needed complementary therapy for your child's  home programme.
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Bilateral integration is the coordination and cooperation of both sides of the body in action (front and back, right and left, top and bottom), according to the BI method devised by Sheila Dobie.
It's a cooperation and coordination in time when a certain movement is performed by one side of the body independently of movements by the other side. Bilateral integration an ability to coordinate both parts of the body during sequential movements. The diagnostic picture of bilateral integration disorders overlaps with the motor disorders.
The exercise program is designed in a sequential way with consecutive exercises that should be followed in a specific order, based on each child's ability level and a rate of progress.  This specifically devised integrated step-by-step exercise program is a promising method of intervention to secure posture control and integration of both sides of the body. Bilateral integration exercises are aimed at closing a gap in the developmental stages. During the BI programme, a child not only gets to know his/her body and position in space, but he/she also begins to combine many activities at the same time. It's possible to combine BI therapy with other therapies, such as naturalistic social communication therapy, early intervention, relationship developmental intervention, multisensory therapy or reflex integration. Bilateral integration is an important part of all integrated therapy programmes delivered by parents at home.

Online training: How to deliver (BI) bilateral integration therapy at home. 

FOR WHO:
Training is beneficial for you if your child has issues with:
- bilateral motor coordination
- reduced physical fitness
- collaboration of the 2 sides of the body during sports or manual activities, e.g. riding a bike, catching/throwing a ball
- learning, reading, writing
- visual & auditory processing
- crossing midline
- distinguishing right and left sides of the body
- performing independent or alternating movements.

TOPICS INCLUDE:
- what is bilateral integration & how it is connected to learning
- 4 stages of bilateral integration for: Reading, Tracking, Writing and Crossing the Midline
- why lateralisation is important
- mixed dominance
- how & what primitive reflexes are connected with bilateral integration issues
- cross laterality

4 BILATERAL INTEGRATION STAGES AND STEP-BY-STEP PROTOCOLS
Symmetrical
Reciprocal
Asymmetrical
Crossing the Midline

BI MOVEMENT BASED LEARNING:
- anatomical planes of the body
- 3 dimensions of learning
- how do the dimensions of learning correlate to brain development
- focus dimension
- centering dimension
- laterality dimension
- bilateral development for academic skills

SIX STEPS PROTOCOLS TO ADDRESS:
- easy learning
- wellbeing
- physical skills of looking & working in the midline
- auditory attention & memory
- writing and fine motor skills-
- emotional processing through movement
- whole body and gross motor movement
- integration across the 3 learning dimensions
- a 6 step process to address comprehension, organisation and communication
- questions to address:
comprehension
organisation
communication
attentional intelligence
emotional intelligence
informational intelligence
- checks & assessment of cross-dimensional learning
- focus dimension
- centering dimension
- laterality dimension
- assessment process with noticing

YOU WILL RECEIVE PRACTICAL EXERCISES FOR ALL STAGES OF BILATERAL INTEGRATION TO DO AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD FOR 10-15 MINUTES A DAY FOR A FEW WEEKS.
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ASSESSMENT
You will receive an assessment form to fill out about your child for baseline information, to devise the BI therapy goals and track progress. Pre-checks will be carried out for each of 4 stages of BI.
Improvements and/or challenges will be monitored regularly during our sessions & via videotaping with remote supervision that is included in your 12 session online BI coaching programme.

This article provides helpful information for developing your child’s bilateral integration. As a reminder, Autism Consulting Online is not a health care provider and none of our materials or services provide a diagnosis or treatment of a specific condition or learning challenge you may see in your child or student. If you seek a diagnosis or treatment for your child or student, please contact a trained professional who can provide an evaluation of the child.