Morpho-syntactic intervention
Morpho-syntactic intervention is an approach for speech and language therapists and/or specialist teachers to support the development of children’s sentence and word construction (syntax and morphology) (Haskill, Tyler, & Tolbert, 2001) which may also benefit their speech sound system (phonology) (Tyler et al, 2002; but Fey et al, 1994).
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Morpho-syntactic intervention
Morpho-syntactic intervention is an approach for speech and language therapists and/or specialist teachers to support the development of children’s sentence and word construction (syntax and morphology) (Haskill, Tyler, & Tolbert, 2001) which may also benefit their speech sound system (phonology) (Tyler et al, 2002; but Fey et al, 1994).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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My sentence builder
My Sentence Builder is a computer-assisted treatment (C-AT) programme for the remediation of expressive-grammar deficits in preschool children with expressive Specific language impairment (SLI) whose receptive language skills are within the normal range. My Sentence Builder features components for present progressive sentences, one of the earliest developmental sentence types acquired, which can be used to create grammatically correct sentences by a clinician–client dyad.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Lidcombe Programme
The Lidcombe Programme is a behavioural treatment for young children who stutter. The program takes its name from the suburb of Sydney where the Australian Stuttering Research Centre at the University of Sydney is located.
Evidence Rating: Strong
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Cued speech
The system of cued speech was designed primarily to help deaf and hearing impaired speakers to learn English, to help lip reading and to support the development of literacy. Cued speech is a system of hand shapes and hand positions used in combination with lip shapes to show all the different speech sounds.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Core vocabulary
The Core Vocabulary approach (Crosbie, Holm & Dodd, 2005) is designed for use with children who have an inconsistent speech disorder (Dodd, 2005), i.e. many of their words are produced with inconsistent pronunciations but there are no signs of developmental verbal dyspraxia.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Literate language intervention
Literate Language Intervention targets the literate language skills of preschool children with identified low oral language skills. Intervention focusses on both sentence- and narrative-level understanding of literate language concepts, and is delivered in four 3-week units, 12 weeks in total, 4 days per week in school by trained interventionists with a variety of teaching experience. The intervention evaluation is based on a US sample of children.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Little Talkers (Parent-based intervention)
Little Talkers (originally known as the Parent-based Intervention Programme or PBI) was developed by Deborah Gibbard in 1992. It is an indirect approach, delivered by parents, under the guidance of a speech and language therapist and is aimed at pre-school children presenting with expressive language delay.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Multiple opposition therapy
Multiple opposition therapy (Williams, 2000, 2005) is an approach for speech and language therapists who are working with children who have unclear speech due to phonological impairment and is one of the variants of contrast therapies.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Lexicon pirate
Lexicon Pirate is an intensive short term therapy designed as an intervention method for children with different types of lexical deficits. The therapy method contains elements of self-management. It encourages children to learn actively by discovering lexical gaps.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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