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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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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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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Strathclyde Language Intervention Programme
The Strathclyde Language Intervention Programme was devised by Mccartney and colleagues to promote the language development of children with specific language impairments. Emphasis is on both understanding and expression of language in primary school and is delivered speech and language therapy assistants under the guidance of a speech and language therapist.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Talk Boost Key Stage 1
Talk Boost is a targeted intervention developed by The Communication Trust and Speech and Language UK, and supported by the Every Child a Chance Trust. It is aimed at children with delayed language development between 4 and 7 years. This targeted intervention aims to support children who have language delay to close the gap/catch up with their peers.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Talk Boost Key Stage 2
Talk Boost KS2 (TBKS2) is a targeted intervention for 7-10 year olds who have ‘low-average oral language’. It aims to help them to narrow the gap between their language skills and those of their peers. It consists of a combination of small group sessions with additional whole class activities, and also home-based tasks. TBKS2 covers the areas of language and communication which are key skills for children during Key Stage 2 to support them to access the academic and social curriculum.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Focused stimulation
Focused stimulation is a technique used to draw a child’s attention to specific aspects of grammar or vocabulary. The idea is to target a particular word, phrase, or grammatical form, and to use it repeatedly while interacting with the child.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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TeaCHH
This treatment was originally designed by the researchers in The University of North Carolina in 1966 by Eric Schopler (Schopler & Reichler, 1971) and aims to develop Autistic children’s communication skills alongside cognition, perception, imitation and motor skills (Eikeseth, 2009), though speech and language problems are not an intervention priority for TeaCCH.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Pre-teaching vocabulary
PTV provides a principled, evidenced approach for demonstrating, modelling and teaching children how to learn new words in order to promote independent word learning. It aims to support and scaffold the naturalistic way teachers already discuss new words in their classrooms by providing a structured pathway for word learning, ensuring children learn the words well enough to understand and use them effectively.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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