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.
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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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Cued speech
The system of cued speech was designed primarily to help deaf and hearing impaired speakers to learn English, to help lip reading and to support the development of literacy. Cued speech is a system of hand shapes and hand positions used in combination with lip shapes to show all the different speech sounds.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Little Talkers (Parent-based intervention)
Little Talkers (originally known as the Parent-based Intervention Programme or PBI) was developed by Deborah Gibbard in 1992. It is an indirect approach, delivered by parents, under the guidance of a speech and language therapist and is aimed at pre-school children presenting with expressive language delay.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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The Becky Shanks Narrative Intervention
The Becky Shanks Narrative Intervention was developed by Becky Shanks (2001). It focuses on understanding and using story grammar to support children to tell verbal narratives and stories and is specifically designed for children with language difficulty.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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