World Of Words
The World of Words (WOW) is a multimedia intervention designed to support vocabulary and conceptual development of low-income preschool children (3-4 years).
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World Of Words
The World of Words (WOW) is a multimedia intervention designed to support vocabulary and conceptual development of low-income preschool children (3-4 years).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Pointing to Success (Parent-focussed gesture intervention)
This parent intervention aims to use gesture intervention with a growth mindset component to increase parents' use of the pointing gesture, infants' use of pointing, and child vocabulary growth. It’s target age group is children aged 10 months.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Tots Talking
Tots Talking is a co-produced programme designed with parents and carers. It aims to support parents and carer of 2-year-olds who may be at risk of speech and language challenges to change their communicative behaviour. It is an 8-week programme involving weekly one-hour interactive sessions with small groups of 6-8 parents and carers. The sessions are facilitated by a trained early years practitioner and are available for delivery online or face-to-face. A small pilot was completed in 2019.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST)
Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) is an intervention based on usage-based theory designed to support pre-school children aged 3 - 6 years with low language abilities to understand and produce two-, three- and four-clause element sentences.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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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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Pre-teaching vocabulary
PTV provides a principled, evidenced approach for demonstrating, modelling and teaching children how to learn new words in order to promote independent word learning. It aims to support and scaffold the naturalistic way teachers already discuss new words in their classrooms by providing a structured pathway for word learning, ensuring children learn the words well enough to understand and use them effectively.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Pre-school Autism Communication Therapy (PACT)
Preschool Autism Communication Therapy (PACT) is an intervention programme designed to help the development of social communication and language skills of children aged 2-7 years who have autism, or a related social communication disorder. It can be used with non-verbal children as well as with children who are in the early stages of their language development.
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Vocabulary intervention in science
The intervention focuses on an intentional approach to vocabulary instruction
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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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