Cueing word-finding

Cueing word-finding

A cueing-aid designed to be used as an approach to improve children’s word-finding abilities

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contextual instruction, analytical instruction, and anchored ...

The Becky Shanks Narrative Intervention

The Becky Shanks Narrative Intervention was developed by Becky Shanks (2001). It focuses on understanding and using story grammar to support children to tell verbal narratives and stories and is specifically designed for children with language difficulty.