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
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Story grammar intervention
This intervention program is intended for young school-age children who demonstrate poor oral narrative comprehension skills, as indicated by their performance on a story comprehension task. The program aims: 1) to increase knowledge of text structure in fictional stories; and 2) to apply this knowledge to re/telling fictional stories. The program is designed to be implemented by a speech-language therapist (SLT) in 2 one-hour sessions per week, over a 6-week period.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Talk Boost Key Stage 2
Talk Boost KS2 (TBKS2) is a targeted intervention for 7-10 year olds who have ‘low-average oral language’. It aims to help them to narrow the gap between their language skills and those of their peers. It consists of a combination of small group sessions with additional whole class activities, and also home-based tasks. TBKS2 covers the areas of language and communication which are key skills for children during Key Stage 2 to support them to access the academic and social curriculum.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
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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
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Story champs
Aims to increase children’s ability to use complex syntax and to include more story grammar features in their narratives
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
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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
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Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment: ReST
A treatment for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS, dyspraxia) which aims to address the three core features of the disorder. ReST deliberately avoids real words, and because the semantic system is not engaged in the nonsense words, the child is required to compile a new motor plan without the assistance or interference of the semantic system on each attempt.
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