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ActiveAte is a group designed for children with Autism to promote well-being through teaching parents how to support their child to explore food and increase physical activity. Parents come together to learn and share strategies to progress their child’s engagement in meals. Children will join in fun movement activities and learn how to explore food in a positive way.

Children have the opportunity to:

• Take part in fun movement games
• Explore foods based on sensory properties
• Socialise with other kids

Topics covered with parents include:  

• Exploring ongoing opportunities for physical activity
• Mealtime myths
• Creating a positive mealtime routine
• How to support your child to explore food choices
• Trouble shooting barriers to eating a range of foods and participating in physical activity
• The role of technology

This group will be hosted by two of our therapists. The content of the group has been developed by Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, Clinical Psychologists and a Dietitian.

When: Monday – Thursday, commencing 13 January – 23 January 2020

Time: 2:30 – 4:00pm

Where: Kids Are Kids!, 26 Parry Avenue, Bateman

Cost: $250 for the 8 session program and a 45 minute pre-group consult

Register your interest:

Please call 9313 6566 or email info@kidsarekids.org.au

The program is made possible and has been subsidised for families by funding from the Helen Leech Endowment through Perpetual’s IMPACT Philanthropy Program.

Download the information flyer here. 

ActiveAte is a group designed for children with Autism to promote well-being through teaching parents how to support their child to explore food and increase physical activity. Parents come together to learn and share strategies to progress their child’s engagement in meals. Children will join in fun movement activities and learn how to explore food in a positive way.

Children have the opportunity to:

• Take part in fun movement games
• Explore foods based on sensory properties
• Socialise with other kids

Topics covered with parents include:  

• Exploring ongoing opportunities for physical activity
• Mealtime myths
• Creating a positive mealtime routine
• How to support your child to explore food choices
• Trouble shooting barriers to eating a range of foods and participating in physical activity
• The role of technology

This group will be hosted by two of our therapists. The content of the group has been developed by Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, Clinical Psychologists and a Dietitian.

When: Monday – Thursday, commencing 13 January – 23 January 2020

Time: 2:30 – 4:00pm

Where: Kids Are Kids!, 26 Parry Avenue, Bateman

Cost: $250 for the 8 session program and a 45 minute pre-group consult

Register your interest:

Please call 9313 6566 or email info@kidsarekids.org.au

The program is made possible and has been subsidised for families by funding from the Helen Leech Endowment through Perpetual’s IMPACT Philanthropy Program.

Download the information flyer here. 

ActiveAte is a group designed for children with Autism to promote well-being through teaching parents how to support their child to explore food and increase physical activity. Parents come together to learn and share strategies to progress their child’s engagement in meals. Children will join in fun movement activities and learn how to explore food in a positive way.

Children have the opportunity to:

• Take part in fun movement games
• Explore foods based on sensory properties
• Socialise with other kids

Topics covered with parents include:  

• Exploring ongoing opportunities for physical activity
• Mealtime myths
• Creating a positive mealtime routine
• How to support your child to explore food choices
• Trouble shooting barriers to eating a range of foods and participating in physical activity
• The role of technology

This group will be hosted by two of our therapists. The content of the group has been developed by Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, Clinical Psychologists and a Dietitian.

When: Monday – Thursday, commencing 13 January – 23 January 2020

Time: 2:30 – 4:00pm

Where: Kids Are Kids!, 26 Parry Avenue, Bateman

Cost: $250 for the 8 session program and a 45 minute pre-group consult

Register your interest:

Please call 9313 6566 or email info@kidsarekids.org.au

The program is made possible and has been subsidised for families by funding from the Helen Leech Endowment through Perpetual’s IMPACT Philanthropy Program.

Download the information flyer here. 

Kids Are Kids! are hosting a 3 day Hanen Workshop called It Takes Two to Talk® in January. The It Takes Two to Talk workshop was developed for Speech-Language Pathologists to provide them with the strategies and coaching framework to empower parents to become an effective language facilitator for their child. We believe that this is a great evidence-based professional development opportunity for our staff and professionals in the area.

The workshop is in Perth, WA and scheduled for January 29-31, 2020.  Registration will open soon! If you are interested in attending, please sign up for email notifications here. Hanen will email you with information on special pricing discounts as soon as registration opens.

When you take It Takes Two to Talk, you get:

• 2.2 ASHA Continuing Education Credits or 22 Professional Development Hours
• An effective teaching methodology for coaching parents to use responsive interaction strategies
• An overview of learning styles and principles of adult education and their application to facilitating parents’ learning to be effective language facilitators
• The stages of learning in terms of self-awareness, attitude and behavior change and how to adapt the use of coaching and videotaping with feedback to each stage in order to facilitate parents’ learning and application of strategies
• Certification to lead the evidence-based It Takes Two to Talk – The Hanen Program® for Parents of Children with Language Delay
• An overview of It Takes Two to Talk’s three clusters of responsive interaction strategies – child-centered, interaction-promoting, and language modeling strategies
• A comprehensive set of resources to use within your It Takes Two to Talk Programs, as well as in your everyday work with families (valued at $270)
• Access to the member-only It Takes Two to Talk Parent workbook designed specifically for use in one-to-one therapy
• A one-year, renewable Hanen membership offering ongoing opportunities to enhance your clinical skills

What professionals say:

“This will completely change my way of working. It has challenged some ingrained practices and I feel I have evolved as a therapist as a result.”
– Hanen Certified SLT (London, UK)

“This workshop was amazing, really well structured and flowed nicely. I liked that it was interactive and we had lots of opportunities to practice.”
– Hanen Certified SP (Sydney, Australia)

“As a young person and a new graduate, I feel much more confident in my ability to provide coaching for the parents that I work with.”
– Hanen Certified SP and Student Subsidy Award Winner

Kids Are Kids! are hosting a Hanen Workshop called SPARK Communication™ in April. SPARK was developed for Early Interventionists to provide them with the strategies and coaching framework to help children’s early language development and work with their parents to apply these strategies at home. We believe that this is a great evidence-based professional development opportunity for our staff and professionals in the area.

The workshop is in Perth, WA on April 20-21, 2020. Registrations will open soon! If you are interested in attending, please sign up for email notifications. Hanen will email you with more information as soon as registration opens.

When you take SPARK Communication, you get:

• Research-based responsive interaction strategies – drawn from the world-renowned It Takes Two to Talk® Program – that have been shown to accelerate children’s language use and communication development
• A coaching framework for involving and teaching parents so they play a key role in facilitating their child’s early communication development
• Concrete plans for applying the SPARK coaching framework and interaction strategies with the families on their caseload
• A comprehensive set of resources to structure, plan and implement SPARK strategies with families (valued at over $100)
• 13.0 Professional Development Hours

What professionals say:

“I can now discuss the child’s communication with parents and give them strategies to help their child initiate and increase language.”

“After taking this workshop, I will have more confidence to help families feel empowered to work on their communication goals. I feel I have the tools to me help them make a difference, and I can share them with the teachers and educators who are involved too”

“I’ve [learned]… many new ways to present to parents how fun, easy and interactive putting these strategies into practice could be.”

“I’m not a speech-language pathologist, but I’ve used Hanen principles over the years thanks to the wonderful SLPs I’ve worked with. This workshop really helped me understand Hanen’s strategies and how to use them with parents.”