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.

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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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Vocabulary intervention in science

    The intervention focuses on an intentional approach to vocabulary instruction

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • 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

  • Thinking together

    Thinking together is a dialogue-based approach to the development of children's thinking and learning using talk as a tool for thinking. It connects the development of children's 'thinking skills' to the development of their communication skills and curriculum learning.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Parent-child book reading

    Parent-child book reading aims to foster children’s language and literacy development, as well as attachment with the parent and social-emotional wellbeing.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • 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

  • 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