Interactive Elaborative Storytelling (IES)
Interactive Elaborative Storytelling (IES) is an intervention targeting the vocabulary of preschool children. The intervention aims to contextualise difficult words in stories with an interactive component whereby children are actively involved in storytelling across repeated readings. IES is delivered by trained researchers for 4 months to children aged 5 years old.
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Interactive Elaborative Storytelling (IES)
Interactive Elaborative Storytelling (IES) is an intervention targeting the vocabulary of preschool children. The intervention aims to contextualise difficult words in stories with an interactive component whereby children are actively involved in storytelling across repeated readings. IES is delivered by trained researchers for 4 months to children aged 5 years old.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Parent Coaching
Parent Coaching targets typically developing children’s language development through enhancing the parental language input in the home environment. It is delivered when children are 6, 10, and 14 months of age. Parents receive individual coaching sessions and receive linguistic feedback about their home language environment using LENA technology. Child language outcomes targeted include vocalisation counts and conversational turn counts (between parent and child), and children’s use of words and sentences at 18months.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Inferential Comprehension Intervention (ICI)
Inferential Comprehension Intervention (ICI) is designed to improve oral inferential comprehension of narrative discourse of children aged 5- to 6-years-old with developmental language disorder. Intervention involves theoretically informed manualised small-group sessions twice a week over 8 weeks. Sessions target oral inferential comprehension within a book sharing context.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ‘NICU’ Parent Education Programme
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ‘NICU’ Parent Education Programme is a structured language curriculum for families that provides developmentally appropriate language nutrition intervention for parents beginning at 32 weeks of gestation. NICU provides intervention to parents that aims to enhance parental and child-directed interactive language in the NICU and improve language and cognitive outcomes for children during their first 2 years.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Technology Assisted Language Intervention (TALI)
TALI incorporates augmentative and alternative communication technology (AAC) into traditional speech/language therapy as a language-teaching tool delivered by a speech-language pathologist (SLP). The TALI software provides visual supports for abstract linguistic concepts, voice output and consistent models for verbalisations.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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World Of Words
The World of Words (WOW) is a multimedia intervention designed to support vocabulary and conceptual development of low-income preschool children (3-4 years).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Tots Talking
Tots Talking is a co-produced programme designed with parents and carers. It aims to support parents and carer of 2-year-olds who may be at risk of speech and language challenges to change their communicative behaviour. It is an 8-week programme involving weekly one-hour interactive sessions with small groups of 6-8 parents and carers. The sessions are facilitated by a trained early years practitioner and are available for delivery online or face-to-face. A small pilot was completed in 2019.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST)
Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) is an intervention based on usage-based theory designed to support pre-school children aged 3 - 6 years with low language abilities to understand and produce two-, three- and four-clause element sentences.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Supporting knowledge in language and literacy
Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy is a narrative and vocabulary instruction program for children with language disorders provided by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in a regular primary school classroom setting.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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