Technology Assisted Language Intervention (TALI)
TALI incorporates augmentative and alternative communication technology (AAC) into traditional speech/language therapy as a language-teaching tool delivered by a speech-language pathologist (SLP). The TALI software provides visual supports for abstract linguistic concepts, voice output and consistent models for verbalisations.
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Technology Assisted Language Intervention (TALI)
TALI incorporates augmentative and alternative communication technology (AAC) into traditional speech/language therapy as a language-teaching tool delivered by a speech-language pathologist (SLP). The TALI software provides visual supports for abstract linguistic concepts, voice output and consistent models for verbalisations.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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World Of Words
The World of Words (WOW) is a multimedia intervention designed to support vocabulary and conceptual development of low-income preschool children (3-4 years).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Parent Led, Therapist Supervised, Articulation Therapy (PLAT)
Parent Led, Therapist Supervised, Articulation Therapy (PLAT) is a parent-led speech intervention for children aged 3 to 7.5 years with cleft palate articulatory errors. Parents are trained and receive a detailed speech therapy programme to deliver intervention over 12 weeks, this is supported by the cleft specialist SLT.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Pointing to Success (Parent-focussed gesture intervention)
This parent intervention aims to use gesture intervention with a growth mindset component to increase parents' use of the pointing gesture, infants' use of pointing, and child vocabulary growth. It’s target age group is children aged 10 months.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Tots Talking
Tots Talking is a co-produced programme designed with parents and carers. It aims to support parents and carer of 2-year-olds who may be at risk of speech and language challenges to change their communicative behaviour. It is an 8-week programme involving weekly one-hour interactive sessions with small groups of 6-8 parents and carers. The sessions are facilitated by a trained early years practitioner and are available for delivery online or face-to-face. A small pilot was completed in 2019.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST)
Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) is an intervention based on usage-based theory designed to support pre-school children aged 3 - 6 years with low language abilities to understand and produce two-, three- and four-clause element sentences.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Talk Boost Key Stage 1
Talk Boost is a targeted intervention developed by The Communication Trust and Speech and Language UK, and supported by the Every Child a Chance Trust. It is aimed at children with delayed language development between 4 and 7 years. This targeted intervention aims to support children who have language delay to close the gap/catch up with their peers.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Focused auditory stimulation
This is a component of the ‘Cycles’ approach to correcting very unclear speech (Hodson & Paden, 1991), though may also be used in combination with other different approaches to speech sound intervention. It’s typically used with children who are between 3 and 6 years old, children who can’t make the target sound or are unwilling or unable to join in with other types of intervention.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Focused stimulation
Focused stimulation is a technique used to draw a child’s attention to specific aspects of grammar or vocabulary. The idea is to target a particular word, phrase, or grammatical form, and to use it repeatedly while interacting with the child.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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