Gillon Phonological Awareness Programme

This programme targets phonological awareness, speech production and literacy skills in children aged 5-7 with a speech impairment. The programme is based on the work of Gillon (2004). It impacts on phonological awareness through targeting rhyme, phoneme analysis, phoneme identity, segmentation, blending and manipulation.

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  • Gillon Phonological Awareness Programme

    This programme targets phonological awareness, speech production and literacy skills in children aged 5-7 with a speech impairment. The programme is based on the work of Gillon (2004). It impacts on phonological awareness through targeting rhyme, phoneme analysis, phoneme identity, segmentation, blending and manipulation.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Hanen It Takes Two To Talk

    The It Takes Two to Talk Program is designed specifically for parents of young children (birth to 5 years of age) who have been identified as having a language delay. In a small, personalised group setting, parents learn practical strategies to help their children learn language naturally throughout their day together.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Hanen More Than Words

    The More Than Words Program was designed specifically for parents of children ages 5 and under on the autism spectrum. The program provides parents with tools, strategies and support to develop their child’s communication skills.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Story champs

    Aims to increase children’s ability to use complex syntax and to include more story grammar features in their narratives

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • 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

  • Stimulability treatment

    Stimulability is when children can accurately copy a target speech sound that a therapist models for them. Research shows that children do well if they are able to copy target sounds. This approach aims to increase stimulability of non-stimulable sounds (Miccio & Elbert, 1996).

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Rapid Syllable Transition Treatment: ReST

    A treatment for childhood apraxia of speech (CAS, dyspraxia) which aims to address the three core features of the disorder. ReST deliberately avoids real words, and because the semantic system is not engaged in the nonsense words, the child is required to compile a new motor plan without the assistance or interference of the semantic system on each attempt.

  • Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent training (RMIA)

    Motor Imitation Antecedent (RMIA) therapy uses the principles of behaviorism to help nonverbal children with autism acquire first words. It involves teaching children to imitate a series of simple movements (such as clap, tap foot, touch head, touch nose, touch mouth) very quickly.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Psycholinguistic framework

    The Psycholinguistic Framework (Stackhouse & Wells, 1997) is a tool for speech and language therapists who are working with children who have unclear speech. It is a model to help therapists understand how a child is processing speech, which can then be used as a way of analysing how a child is saying particular words and sounds. This can be used as a basis for planning therapy.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate