Parent Training Programs
Logopedia offers the following 12-week training programs for parents:
DIR Floortime® Parent Training Program
Our 12-week DIR Floortime® parent training program is designed to help you build meaningful connections with your child while supporting their social, emotional, and communication development. DIR Floortime® is a relationship-based approach that follows your child’s lead and interests, creating opportunities for growth through playful interactions. This program is particularly beneficial for parents of children with autism or other developmental differences, providing practical strategies to foster your child’s developmental progress in a natural, supportive environment.
Through this program, you will:
Learn how to engage with your child in a way that builds trust and strengthens your bond
Support your child’s emotional regulation and self-advocacy skills
Discover ways to follow your child’s lead and use their natural interests to encourage communication and social development
Understand the different developmental stages and how to meet your child where they are
Gain tools to create meaningful, playful interactions that help your child learn and grow
What You’ll Gain:
Strategies to promote back-and-forth communication through play
Techniques to enhance your child’s emotional awareness and social skills
Tools to support your child’s sensory processing and regulation
Ways to incorporate DIR Floortime® principles into your daily routines and interactions
The goal of this program is to empower you to be an active participant in your child’s developmental journey, creating an environment where they can thrive and feel supported.
More Than Words®
Created specifically for parents of autistic children or children with other social pragmatic differences, the More Than Words® program provides you with practical strategies for addressing your child’s specific needs and building their communication and social skills during everyday routines and play.
More Than Words® does this by empowering you to help your child reach the following three goals:
Improved social communication and back-and-forth interactions
Improved play skills
Improved imitation skills
Here are some of the valuable things you’ll learn when you attend the More Than Words® program:
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 you connect with your child
It Takes two to talk®
This program is specifically designed for parents of children with language delays. In a comfortable small-group setting, you’ll learn practical strategies to help build your child’s language skills naturally during everyday routines and activities.
The It Takes Two to Talk® program teaches you, step-by-step, how to become your child’s most important language teacher. The program shows you how to:
Recognize your child’s stage and style of communication so that you know which steps to take next
Identify what motivates your child to interact with you so you’ll know how to get conversations started
Adjust everyday routines to help your child take turns and keep interactions going
Follow your child’s lead to build their confidence and encourage him to communicate
Add language to interactions with your child to help them understand language and then use it when he is ready
Tweak the way you play and read books with your child to help them learn language
Change the way you speak to your child so that they’ll understand and learn new words
Parent Programs via Tele-health
Our 12-week parent programs are offered in-person or via tele-health.
To inquire about registering for any of our workshop series, please complete the following form: