Parent and children together PACT
Developed by Wendy Rinaldi, the Social Use of Language Programme focuses on Social Communication Skills and Self/Other Awareness. It uses a multi-sensory approach and builds children's knowledge of what they know about social interaction (metacogntion) It aims to support children and adolescents to understand fully the skills being learned, before practising and using them in real-life situation
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Parent and children together PACT
Developed by Wendy Rinaldi, the Social Use of Language Programme focuses on Social Communication Skills and Self/Other Awareness. It uses a multi-sensory approach and builds children's knowledge of what they know about social interaction (metacogntion) It aims to support children and adolescents to understand fully the skills being learned, before practising and using them in real-life situation
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Social thinking
Social Thinking is a Treatment developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that is popular in the US and increasingly so in the UK. It's aimed at children and young people with high functional autism and Asperger’s syndrome. It's based on the ILAUGH Model of Social Thinking as described by Winner (2000), which is a summary of the evidence based research.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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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Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT)
Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) intervention is designed for children aged between 3 and 10 years with severe speech motor delay. Intervention focuses on improving the accuracy and stability of speech production over the course of 10 weeks.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Non-speech oro-motor exercise
This is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to support children with particular types of speech difficulties. The aim of NS-OMEs is to target the physical (motor) and sensory functions which are thought to underlie speech production.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Early Talk Boost
Early Talk Boost (ETB) is a targeted intervention for 3–4-year-old children with delayed language development. It aims to boost their language skills in order to narrow the gap between them and their peers. Groups of 6-8 children attend three sessions per week over a period of nine weeks. Sessions happen during circle/story time, each lasting 15-20 minutes delivered by a trained early years practitioner.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Cueing word-finding
A cueing-aid designed to be used as an approach to improve children’s word-finding abilities
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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My sentence builder
My Sentence Builder is a computer-assisted treatment (C-AT) programme for the remediation of expressive-grammar deficits in preschool children with expressive Specific language impairment (SLI) whose receptive language skills are within the normal range. My Sentence Builder features components for present progressive sentences, one of the earliest developmental sentence types acquired, which can be used to create grammatically correct sentences by a clinician–client dyad.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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