Parent Led, Therapist Supervised, Articulation Therapy (PLAT)
Parent Led, Therapist Supervised, Articulation Therapy (PLAT) is a parent-led speech intervention for children aged 3 to 7.5 years with cleft palate articulatory errors. Parents are trained and receive a detailed speech therapy programme to deliver intervention over 12 weeks, this is supported by the cleft specialist SLT.
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Parent Led, Therapist Supervised, Articulation Therapy (PLAT)
Parent Led, Therapist Supervised, Articulation Therapy (PLAT) is a parent-led speech intervention for children aged 3 to 7.5 years with cleft palate articulatory errors. Parents are trained and receive a detailed speech therapy programme to deliver intervention over 12 weeks, this is supported by the cleft specialist SLT.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Pointing to Success (Parent-focussed gesture intervention)
This parent intervention aims to use gesture intervention with a growth mindset component to increase parents' use of the pointing gesture, infants' use of pointing, and child vocabulary growth. It’s target age group is children aged 10 months.
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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Picture exchange communication system
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was originally developed for children with autism to improve their communication skills (Bondy and Frost, 1994). It is specifically designed for the children to communicate with picture cards but with little or no spoken language and is a specific, manualised intervention.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
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Makaton
Makaton is a language programme using signs and symbols to help people communicate. Designed over forty years ago, it is aimed at adults and children with learning difficulties although it has been used more widely for children learning to speak. The signs and symbols can be used either as a main method of communication or as a way to support verbal communication and the development of early language.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
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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
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Happy talk
Happy Talk is a language intervention programme that aims to support children between 0 and 6 years living in areas of social disadvantage. It is designed for SLTs to work with parents and early educators in community settings, such as baby clinics, creches, preschools and junior infant classes (the first year of primary school). The programme is embedded in the preschools and homes of socially disadvantaged children with the aim of effecting change in parent and educator behaviour.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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