Little Talkers (Parent-based intervention)

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.

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.

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.

Let’s learn language

Let’s Learn Language is a parent language promotion training programme modified from the Hanen parent programme ‘You Make a Difference’. It was developed in Australia at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and targeted at children aged 18 months with delayed expressive language in a community sample.

Language Focused Curriculum (LFC)

LFC aims to create linguistically responsive conversations between educators and pre-school children that simultaneously increase children’s exposure to key linguistic concepts

Intensive interaction

Intensive Interaction is based on the work of Nind and Hewett (2006) and is an approach to developing interaction and communication between people with complex communication needs and the people around them.

Heidelberg Parent-Based Language Intervention (HPLI)

HPLI is a short, highly-structured parent-based language intervention programme for 2-year-old children with specific expressive language delay (SELD, without deficits in receptive language). The programme was developed for use with a group of 5–10 parents. The 3-month programme consisted of seven 2 h and one 3 h session 6 months later.

Broad target recast

Broad Target Recast (BTR) is a specific intervention programme based on recast technique. A recast is where a more experienced speaker responds to what a child says by expanding, deleting, or changing their utterances while maintaining the meaning (Saxton, 2005).

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