Heidelberg Parent-Based Language Intervention (HPLI)

Heidelberg Parent-Based Language Intervention (HPLI)

HPLI is a short, highly-structured parent-based language intervention programme for 2-year-old children with specific expressive language delay (SELD, without deficits in receptive language). The programme was developed for use with a group of 5–10 parents. The 3-month programme consisted of seven 2 h and one 3 h session 6 months later.

Contextual instruction, analytical instruction, and anchored ...

Broad target recast

Broad Target Recast (BTR) is a specific intervention programme based on recast technique. A recast is where a more experienced speaker responds to what a child says by expanding, deleting, or changing their utterances while maintaining the meaning (Saxton, 2005).

Book sharing

Active listening for active learning

The aim of comprehension monitoring is to teach children to recognise what they do and don’t understand and give them some strategies to respond when they don’t understand what’s being said. Many children with speech, language and communication needs struggle with this skill and need direct teaching in order to develop it.