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.

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  • 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

  • Non-speech oro-motor exercise

    This is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to support children with particular types of speech difficulties. The aim of NS-OMEs is to target the physical (motor) and sensory functions which are thought to underlie speech production.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Non-linear phonology intervention

    Non-linear phonology intervention (Bernhardt, 1992; Bernhardt & Stemberger, 1998; Bernhardt & Stoel-Gammon, 1994) is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to support children with speech sound difficulties. It is based on theories of phonology which describe the hierarchical representation of the phonological system (from the prosodic phrase down to the individual features of a phoneme).

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Naturalistic speech intelligibility training

    Naturalistic intervention is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists to target children’s errors in speech and grammatical morphemes. This approach makes a distinction between speech intelligibility (i.e. the degree to which a child is understood) and speech accuracy (i.e. the correct production of individual phonemes). It is intended for use with children who have severe speech sound disorder who are difficult to understand.

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Read, Play, Learn (RPL) intervention

    The aim of the vocabulary intervention is to develop the depth of vocabulary knowledge of low SES children aged 4-5 years old.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Morpho-syntactic intervention

    Morpho-syntactic intervention is an approach for speech and language therapists and/or specialist teachers to support the development of children’s sentence and word construction (syntax and morphology) (Haskill, Tyler, & Tolbert, 2001) which may also benefit their speech sound system (phonology) (Tyler et al, 2002; but Fey et al, 1994).

    Evidence Rating: Moderate

  • Cueing word-finding

    A cueing-aid designed to be used as an approach to improve children’s word-finding abilities

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • My sentence builder

    My Sentence Builder is a computer-assisted treatment (C-AT) programme for the remediation of expressive-grammar deficits in preschool children with expressive Specific language impairment (SLI) whose receptive language skills are within the normal range. My Sentence Builder features components for present progressive sentences, one of the earliest developmental sentence types acquired, which can be used to create grammatically correct sentences by a clinician–client dyad.

    Evidence Rating: Indicative

  • Lidcombe Programme

    The Lidcombe Programme is a behavioural treatment for young children who stutter. The program takes its name from the suburb of Sydney where the Australian Stuttering Research Centre at the University of Sydney is located.

    Evidence Rating: Strong