Social thinking
Social Thinking is a Treatment developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that is popular in the US and increasingly so in the UK. It's aimed at children and young people with high functional autism and Asperger’s syndrome. It's based on the ILAUGH Model of Social Thinking as described by Winner (2000), which is a summary of the evidence based research.
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Social thinking
Social Thinking is a Treatment developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that is popular in the US and increasingly so in the UK. It's aimed at children and young people with high functional autism and Asperger’s syndrome. It's based on the ILAUGH Model of Social Thinking as described by Winner (2000), which is a summary of the evidence based research.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Happy talk
Happy Talk is a language intervention programme that aims to support children between 0 and 6 years living in areas of social disadvantage. It is designed for SLTs to work with parents and early educators in community settings, such as baby clinics, creches, preschools and junior infant classes (the first year of primary school). The programme is embedded in the preschools and homes of socially disadvantaged children with the aim of effecting change in parent and educator behaviour.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT)
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) intervention is designed for children aged between 3 and 10 years with severe speech motor delay. Intervention focuses on improving the accuracy and stability of speech production over the course of 10 weeks.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Social stories
Social Stories is an intervention programme, originally used with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but has started to be used more widely to improve pragmatic language skills (use of language) as part of speech and language therapy.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)
Nuffield Early Language Intervention (published by OUP) is an oral language intervention for children who, on school entry, have poor language skills. Training for Assistants delivering the programme was previously provided by Elklan, a specialist provider of speech and language training within education. Nuffield Early Language Intervention is available to schools throughout the UK. Randomized controlled trials have found the intervention effective.
Evidence Rating: Strong
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Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme
The Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (Williams & Stephens, 2004) is designed to meet the needs of children with severe speech disorders and specifically those with significant difficulty with Dyspraxia . The programme focuses on building up skills needed to make speech sounds, in small graded steps, through frequent systematic practice.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Non-speech oro-motor exercise
This is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to support children with particular types of speech difficulties. The aim of NS-OMEs is to target the physical (motor) and sensory functions which are thought to underlie speech production.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Early Talk Boost
Early Talk Boost (ETB) is a targeted intervention for 3–4-year-old children with delayed language development. It aims to boost their language skills in order to narrow the gap between them and their peers. Groups of 6-8 children attend three sessions per week over a period of nine weeks. Sessions happen during circle/story time, each lasting 15-20 minutes delivered by a trained early years practitioner.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Non-linear phonology intervention
Non-linear phonology intervention (Bernhardt, 1992; Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998; Bernhardt & Stoel-Gammon, 1994) is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to support children with speech sound difficulties. It is based on theories of phonology which describe the hierarchical representation of the phonological system (from the prosodic phrase down to the individual features of a phoneme).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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