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.

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Gillon Phonological Awareness Programme

    This programme targets phonological awareness, speech production and literacy skills in children aged 5-7 with a speech impairment. The programme is based on the work of Gillon (2004). It impacts on phonological awareness through targeting rhyme, phoneme analysis, phoneme identity, segmentation, blending and manipulation.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Hanen It Takes Two To Talk

    The It Takes Two to Talk Program is designed specifically for parents of young children (birth to 5 years of age) who have been identified as having a language delay. In a small, personalised group setting, parents learn practical strategies to help their children learn language naturally throughout their day together.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Talking Time

    Talking Time is an interactive oral language intervention package designed to support language and to foster communication with and between preschool children. It was developed by Julie Dockrell and Morag Stuart at the Institute of Education in London. The programme aims to develop children’s language before they reach primary school so that they are at a level where they can make the best use of language for learning and socialising when they start school.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Hanen More Than Words

    The More Than Words Program was designed specifically for parents of children ages 5 and under on the autism spectrum. The program provides parents with tools, strategies and support to develop their child’s communication skills.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • TeaCHH

    This treatment was originally designed by the researchers in The University of North Carolina in 1966 by Eric Schopler (Schopler & Reichler, 1971) and aims to develop Autistic children’s communication skills alongside cognition, perception, imitation and motor skills (Eikeseth, 2009), though speech and language problems are not an intervention priority for TeaCCH.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Stimulability treatment

    Stimulability is when children can accurately copy a target speech sound that a therapist models for them. Research shows that children do well if they are able to copy target sounds. This approach aims to increase stimulability of non-stimulable sounds (Miccio & Elbert, 1996).

    Evidence Rating: Indicative