Lexicon pirate

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Contextual instruction, analytical instruction, and anchored ...

Broad target recast

Broad Target Recast (BTR) is a specific intervention programme based on recast technique. A recast is where a more experienced speaker responds to what a child says by expanding, deleting, or changing their utterances while maintaining the meaning (Saxton, 2005).

Book sharing

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.