Lexicon pirate

Lexicon pirate

Lexicon Pirate is an intensive short term therapy designed as an intervention method for children with different types of lexical deficits. The therapy method contains elements of self-management. It encourages children to learn actively by discovering lexical gaps.

Intensive interaction

Intensive Interaction is based on the work of Nind and Hewett (2006) and is an approach to developing interaction and communication between people with complex communication needs and the people around them.

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.

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

The Becky Shanks Narrative Intervention

The Becky Shanks Narrative Intervention was developed by Becky Shanks (2001). It focuses on understanding and using story grammar to support children to tell verbal narratives and stories and is specifically designed for children with language difficulty.

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.