Parent-child book reading
Parent-child book reading aims to foster children’s language and literacy development, as well as attachment with the parent and social-emotional wellbeing.
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Parent-child book reading
Parent-child book reading aims to foster children’s language and literacy development, as well as attachment with the parent and social-emotional wellbeing.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Metaphon
Metaphon is an approach for speech and language therapists who are working with children who have unclear speech due to phonological impairment. Metaphon (Dean, Howell, Hill & Waters, 1990; Dean, Howell, Waters & Reid, 1995) is a cognitive-linguistic treatment that aims to increase metalinguistic awareness as a means of improving phonological change and speech sound production (Gierut, 1998).
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Parent directed home visiting intervention
Parent-directed home visiting intervention aims to increase parent knowledge of child language development and improve the quality and quantity of parent–child language interaction in families of low socio-economic status. A trained coach visits family homes every week for 8 weeks and implements 8 computer-based intervention modules with parents of children aged 1.5-3 years.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Millieu teaching/ therapy
Milieu Teaching/Therapy has a long history in the field of psychiatry and psychiatric nursing. It is a planned treatment environment in which everyday events and interactions are designed as part of therapy to enhance social skills and build confidence. The milieu, or "life space," provides a safe environment that is rich with social opportunities and immediate feedback from caring staff.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Palin parent-child interaction therapy
Palin Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) therapy is an approach for managing stammering in children aged 7 years and under, developed at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children (MPC). It is aimed at helping parents identify and develop interaction styles within the family setting which promote their child’s natural fluency.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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PhonoSens
PhonoSens is a treatment programme for speech sound disorders in preschool-early primary school aged children which focuses on integrating phonological and phonetic processing according to the Integrated Psycholinguistic Model of Speech Processing (IPMSP, Terband et al 2019). In PhonoSens, therapy is divided approximately in half between perceptual and production training. The programme involves 6 hierarchical steps and is delivered over 15 weekly sessions of 45 min each.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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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