Parents and Children Together (PACT)
PACT is a programme of therapy for young children, aged 3 to 6, with speech sound difficulties, which is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists. During therapy the speech and language therapist (SLT) involves parents and significant others, possibly including teachers.
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Parents and Children Together (PACT)
PACT is a programme of therapy for young children, aged 3 to 6, with speech sound difficulties, which is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists. During therapy the speech and language therapist (SLT) involves parents and significant others, possibly including teachers.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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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Metaphon
Metaphon is an approach for speech and language therapists who are working with children who have unclear speech due to phonological impairment. Metaphon (Dean, Howell, Hill & Waters, 1990; Dean, Howell, Waters & Reid, 1995) is a cognitive-linguistic treatment that aims to increase metalinguistic awareness as a means of improving phonological change and speech sound production (Gierut, 1998).
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Palin parent-child interaction therapy
Palin Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) therapy is an approach for managing stammering in children aged 7 years and under, developed at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children (MPC). It is aimed at helping parents identify and develop interaction styles within the family setting which promote their child’s natural fluency.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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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