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
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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
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Talking Time
Talking Time is an interactive oral language intervention package designed to support language and to foster communication with and between preschool children. It was developed by Julie Dockrell and Morag Stuart at the Institute of Education in London. The programme aims to develop children’s language before they reach primary school so that they are at a level where they can make the best use of language for learning and socialising when they start school.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
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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
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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
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Picture exchange communication system
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was originally developed for children with autism to improve their communication skills (Bondy and Frost, 1994). It is specifically designed for the children to communicate with picture cards but with little or no spoken language and is a specific, manualised intervention.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Phoneme factory
Phoneme Factory is a suite of seven computerised activities including sound symbol matching, rhyming, blending, minimal pair discrimination. They are designed to increase children’s processing of speech sound skills leading to changes in the child’s speech sound (phonological) system.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Family-centred Practice
The aim of FCP is to use increased parental involvement in their children’s speech and language therapy (SLT) to enhance SLT outcomes for children’s expressive and receptive language, as well as increase parental satisfaction with SLT.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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