Social stories

Social stories

Social Stories is an intervention programme, originally used with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but has started to be used more widely to improve pragmatic language skills (use of language) as part of speech and language therapy.

Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

Nuffield Early Language Intervention (published by OUP) is an oral language intervention for children who, on school entry, have poor language skills. Training for Assistants delivering the programme was previously provided by Elklan, a specialist provider of speech and language training within education. Nuffield Early Language Intervention is available to schools throughout the UK. Randomized controlled trials have found the intervention effective.

Read, Play, Learn (RPL) intervention

The aim of the vocabulary intervention is to develop the depth of vocabulary knowledge of low SES children aged 4-5 years old.

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.

Literate language intervention

Literate Language Intervention targets the literate language skills of preschool children with identified low oral language skills. Intervention focusses on both sentence- and narrative-level understanding of literate language concepts, and is delivered in four 3-week units, 12 weeks in total, 4 days per week in school by trained interventionists with a variety of teaching experience. The intervention evaluation is based on a US sample of children.

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

Intensive interaction

Intensive Interaction is based on the work of Nind and Hewett (2006) and is an approach to developing interaction and communication between people with complex communication needs and the people around them.

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.

Contextual instruction, analytical instruction, and anchored ...