Reading and Language Intervention for children with Down Syndrome (RLI)
RLI is a targeted intervention aimed at improving the reading and language skills of children with Down syndrome in primary school aged 5 years and over. This intervention was designed to be delivered by teaching assistants.
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Reading and Language Intervention for children with Down Syndrome ...
RLI is a targeted intervention aimed at improving the reading and language skills of children with Down syndrome in primary school aged 5 years and over. This intervention was designed to be delivered by teaching assistants.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Early Talk Boost
Early Talk Boost (ETB) is a targeted intervention for 3–4-year-old children with delayed language development. It aims to boost their language skills in order to narrow the gap between them and their peers. Groups of 6-8 children attend three sessions per week over a period of nine weeks. Sessions happen during circle/story time, each lasting 15-20 minutes delivered by a trained early years practitioner.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Naturalistic speech intelligibility training
Naturalistic intervention is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to target children’s errors in speech and grammatical morphemes. This approach makes a distinction between speech intelligibility (i.e. the degree to which a child is understood) and speech accuracy (i.e. the correct production of individual phonemes). It is intended for use with children who have severe speech sound disorder who are difficult to understand.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Read, Play, Learn (RPL) intervention
The aim of the vocabulary intervention is to develop the depth of vocabulary knowledge of low SES children aged 4-5 years old.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Morpho-syntactic intervention
Morpho-syntactic intervention is an approach for speech and language therapists and/or specialist teachers to support the development of children’s sentence and word construction (syntax and morphology) (Haskill, Tyler, & Tolbert, 2001) which may also benefit their speech sound system (phonology) (Tyler et al, 2002; but Fey et al, 1994).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Linking Language with Secondary School Learning (LINK-S)
The program involves collaboration between speech and language therapists (SLTs) and mainstream secondary school classroom and learning support teachers. Teachers are coached by the SLT in the use of oral and written instructional language modification techniques.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Cueing word-finding
A cueing-aid designed to be used as an approach to improve children’s word-finding abilities
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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My sentence builder
My Sentence Builder is a computer-assisted treatment (C-AT) programme for the remediation of expressive-grammar deficits in preschool children with expressive Specific language impairment (SLI) whose receptive language skills are within the normal range. My Sentence Builder features components for present progressive sentences, one of the earliest developmental sentence types acquired, which can be used to create grammatically correct sentences by a clinician–client dyad.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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