Family-centred Practice

The aim of FCP is to use increased parental involvement in their children’s speech and language therapy (SLT) to enhance SLT outcomes for children’s expressive and receptive language, as well as increase parental satisfaction with SLT.

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  • Family-centred Practice

    The aim of FCP is to use increased parental involvement in their children’s speech and language therapy (SLT) to enhance SLT outcomes for children’s expressive and receptive language, as well as increase parental satisfaction with SLT.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Earobics

    Earobics (Cognitive Concepts, 1997; Diehl, 1999) is a comprehensive computerised intervention program for training phonological awareness and auditory–language processing.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Phonology with Reading Programme (P+R)

    Phonology with Reading Programme (P+R) is an intervention approach which is inspired by research on reading difficulty. The majority of studies have been concerned with reading of single words and suggest that combining speech sound (phonological) training with reading is successful in facilitating reading development in poor readers.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Word

    The aim of WORD intervention is to improve children’s word-finding difficulties. Strategies involve encouraging reflection and the use of word finding strategies. As the programme progresses there is an increasing focus on meta-cognition and using words to communicate, as opposed to naming pictures). The intervention has both phonological and semantic components. The intervention evaluation study was conducted in the UK.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Vocabulary intervention in science

    The intervention focuses on an intentional approach to vocabulary instruction

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Visualising and verbalising

    Visualising and Verbalising (Bell, 1987) is a technique used to help understanding of language in language-impaired students. Visualising and Verbalising aims to improve mental imagery skills, which then help listening and reading comprehension.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Visual approaches to support speech and language

    The underpinning reasoning for this approach is that children who have language learning difficulties often show strengths in their visual skills (Archibold & Gathercole, 2006). The approach covers a wide range of ways of supporting children’s language learning through the use of additional visual clues.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Thinking together

    Thinking together is a dialogue-based approach to the development of children's thinking and learning using talk as a tool for thinking. It connects the development of children's 'thinking skills' to the development of their communication skills and curriculum learning.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Parent-child book reading

    Parent-child book reading aims to foster children’s language and literacy development, as well as attachment with the parent and social-emotional wellbeing.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate