Morpho-syntactic intervention
Morpho-syntactic intervention is an approach for speech and language therapists and/or specialist teachers to support the development of children’s sentence and word construction (syntax and morphology) (Haskill, Tyler, & Tolbert, 2001) which may also benefit their speech sound system (phonology) (Tyler et al, 2002; but Fey et al, 1994).
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Morpho-syntactic intervention
Morpho-syntactic intervention is an approach for speech and language therapists and/or specialist teachers to support the development of children’s sentence and word construction (syntax and morphology) (Haskill, Tyler, & Tolbert, 2001) which may also benefit their speech sound system (phonology) (Tyler et al, 2002; but Fey et al, 1994).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Core vocabulary
The Core Vocabulary approach (Crosbie, Holm & Dodd, 2005) is designed for use with children who have an inconsistent speech disorder (Dodd, 2005), i.e. many of their words are produced with inconsistent pronunciations but there are no signs of developmental verbal dyspraxia.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Multiple opposition therapy
Multiple opposition therapy (Williams, 2000, 2005) is an approach for speech and language therapists who are working with children who have unclear speech due to phonological impairment and is one of the variants of contrast therapies.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Lexicon pirate
Lexicon Pirate is an intensive short term therapy designed as an intervention method for children with different types of lexical deficits. The therapy method contains elements of self-management. It encourages children to learn actively by discovering lexical gaps.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Let’s learn language
Let’s Learn Language is a parent language promotion training programme modified from the Hanen parent programme ‘You Make a Difference’. It was developed in Australia at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and targeted at children aged 18 months with delayed expressive language in a community sample.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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