This program helps children communicate by providing intensive and innovative training programs for the most important people in a child’s life - their parents or caregivers. Parents/caregivers spend the greatest amount of time with their children, and have the greatest opportunity to help their children communicate. Given information and strategies, parents/caregivers have many more opportunities to improve their children’s social communication skills than are possible through weekly therapy appointments.
Specifically, More Than Words:
- Gives parents/caregivers the strategies they need to help their child interact, communicate, and improve understanding of language.
- Combines the benefit of shared interactive group learning with individual guidance and consultation through videotaping and feedback.
A free introductory/orientation session will be held on Tuesday March 9th at 5:30 pm at the American Baptist Church (600 S. Shields and on Wed. March 10th at 12:30 at Respite Care (6203 S. Lemay Ave.), both in Fort Collins. Come and learn more about this wonderful program! Please RSVP by March 8th by calling Elise Tobler, MA, CCC, Speech-Language Pathologist, at Children's Speech & Reading Center, 970-419-0486. Feel free to call for more information, or click here.
Here’s what past participants have said about More Than Words:
- "Before taking More Than Words, I didn’t have a plan or a roadmap for helping my son communicate more. Now I have a plan, goals, and a road map, with models/examples to help my son communicate more.”
- “Before I took MTW, I stressed on my son’s lack of communication/speech. Now I am relaxed and enjoy the way my son communicates and have fun!”
- “Home visits gave me an opportunity to see how well I was doing and how much my son was gaining.”
- “I’m able to create more opportunities for my son to communicate and interact.”
The program will focus on children, ages 2-5 years, who have little or no verbal language, are beginning to use words, do not yet intentionally communicate, are beginning to communicate intentionally, and who interact with parents briefly or in familiar situations, but rarely or never with other children. This program is not appropriate for parents of children who are using verbal language to consistently communicate or are interacting with peers on their own or with minimal support.
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