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.
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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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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.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Let’s learn language
Let’s Learn Language is a parent language promotion training programme modified from the Hanen parent programme ‘You Make a Difference’. It was developed in Australia at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and targeted at children aged 18 months with delayed expressive language in a community sample.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Language Focused Curriculum (LFC)
LFC aims to create linguistically responsive conversations between educators and pre-school children that simultaneously increase children’s exposure to key linguistic concepts
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Instructional language modification
Instructional language modification targets teachers’ oral and written language used in the classroom to improve the oral and written language of adolescents with Language Impairment. Intervention involves four modification techniques: teachers’ written language, teachers’ oral language, information processing and direct vocabulary instruction. Teachers are trained by a Speech Language Pathologist in these techniques over a 10-week period, one 50-minute session per week.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Heidelberg Parent-Based Language Intervention (HPLI)
HPLI is a short, highly-structured parent-based language intervention programme for 2-year-old children with specific expressive language delay (SELD, without deficits in receptive language). The programme was developed for use with a group of 5–10 parents. The 3-month programme consisted of seven 2 h and one 3 h session 6 months later.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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