Palin parent-child interaction therapy

Palin Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) therapy is an approach for managing stammering in children aged 7 years and under, developed at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children (MPC). It is aimed at helping parents identify and develop interaction styles within the family setting which promote their child’s natural fluency.

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  • Palin parent-child interaction therapy

    Palin Parent-Child Interaction (PCI) therapy is an approach for managing stammering in children aged 7 years and under, developed at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children (MPC). It is aimed at helping parents identify and develop interaction styles within the family setting which promote their child’s natural fluency.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Parent and children together PACT

    Developed by Wendy Rinaldi, the Social Use of Language Programme focuses on Social Communication Skills and Self/Other Awareness. It uses a multi-sensory approach and builds children's knowledge of what they know about social interaction (metacogntion) It aims to support children and adolescents to understand fully the skills being learned, before practising and using them in real-life situation

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Social thinking

    Social Thinking is a Treatment developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that is popular in the US and increasingly so in the UK. It's aimed at children and young people with high functional autism and Asperger’s syndrome. It's based on the ILAUGH Model of Social Thinking as described by Winner (2000), which is a summary of the evidence based research.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Social stories

    Social Stories is an intervention programme, originally used with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but has started to be used more widely to improve pragmatic language skills (use of language) as part of speech and language therapy.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

    Nuffield Early Language Intervention (published by OUP) is an oral language intervention for children who, on school entry, have poor language skills. Training for Assistants delivering the programme was previously provided by Elklan, a specialist provider of speech and language training within education. Nuffield Early Language Intervention is available to schools throughout the UK. Randomized controlled trials have found the intervention effective.

    Evidence Rating: Strong

  • Social Communication Intervention Programme

    The Social Communication Intervention Programme (SCIP) aims to support children’s language and communication. Specifically, working on word meanings (semantics) and high-level language skills (such as verbal reasoning or inference). It supports difficulties children may have with their functional use of language (pragmatic skills) through social interaction and supporting children to understand social cues, which are needed for social interaction (Adams and Gaile, in press).

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Shape Coding by Susan Ebbels®

    Based on Lea’s 1965/1970 Colour Pattern Scheme and on Colourful Semantics (Bryan, 1997), shape coding has been developed by Ebbels and colleagues, working with children with severe speech and language difficulties, to ‘show’ the structure of a sentence thus linking the structure of a sentence (syntax) and its meaning (semantics).

  • Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme

    The Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (Williams & Stephens, 2004) is designed to meet the needs of children with severe speech disorders and specifically those with significant difficulty with Dyspraxia . The programme focuses on building up skills needed to make speech sounds, in small graded steps, through frequent systematic practice.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Road to the code

    Road to the Code is a phonological awareness programme for young children. Principles include the explicit teaching of phoneme manipulations and blending and segmenting in each lesson, as well as sound-symbol awareness activities. The programme is 15 hours long and contains material sufficient for 20 hours of phonological awareness programming. The programme has been used universally with children and here we report outcomes of its use with children with moderate to severe language impairment.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate