Morphological awareness training
Morphological awareness training involves provision of linguistically explicit instruction in morphological awareness for children with language impairment to improve language and literacy outcomes. The intervention is over 10 weeks, children can take part in groups of 2-4, completing two 30-minute sessions per week. Evidence for this intervention comes from an experimental trial in schools where intervention was delivered by a Speech Language Pathologist.
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Morphological awareness training
Morphological awareness training involves provision of linguistically explicit instruction in morphological awareness for children with language impairment to improve language and literacy outcomes. The intervention is over 10 weeks, children can take part in groups of 2-4, completing two 30-minute sessions per week. Evidence for this intervention comes from an experimental trial in schools where intervention was delivered by a Speech Language Pathologist.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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