World Of Words
The World of Words (WOW) is a multimedia intervention designed to support vocabulary and conceptual development of low-income preschool children (3-4 years).
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World Of Words
The World of Words (WOW) is a multimedia intervention designed to support vocabulary and conceptual development of low-income preschool children (3-4 years).
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Tots Talking
Tots Talking is a co-produced programme designed with parents and carers. It aims to support parents and carer of 2-year-olds who may be at risk of speech and language challenges to change their communicative behaviour. It is an 8-week programme involving weekly one-hour interactive sessions with small groups of 6-8 parents and carers. The sessions are facilitated by a trained early years practitioner and are available for delivery online or face-to-face. A small pilot was completed in 2019.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST)
Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) is an intervention based on usage-based theory designed to support pre-school children aged 3 - 6 years with low language abilities to understand and produce two-, three- and four-clause element sentences.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Supporting knowledge in language and literacy
Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy is a narrative and vocabulary instruction program for children with language disorders provided by a speech-language pathologist (SLP) in a regular primary school classroom setting.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Fast ForWord
Fast ForWord (SLC, 2002) is a computerised intervention programme developed by the Scientific Learning Corporation. Fast ForWord aims to improve children’s reading and oral language skills. There are quite well-documented evidence-based studies and systematic reviews on Fast ForWord. However, its efficacy has received little positive support.
Evidence Rating: Strong
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Strathclyde Language Intervention Programme
The Strathclyde Language Intervention Programme was devised by Mccartney and colleagues to promote the language development of children with specific language impairments. Emphasis is on both understanding and expression of language in primary school and is delivered speech and language therapy assistants under the guidance of a speech and language therapist.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Talk Boost Key Stage 1
Talk Boost is a targeted intervention developed by The Communication Trust and Speech and Language UK, and supported by the Every Child a Chance Trust. It is aimed at children with delayed language development between 4 and 7 years. This targeted intervention aims to support children who have language delay to close the gap/catch up with their peers.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Story grammar intervention
This intervention program is intended for young school-age children who demonstrate poor oral narrative comprehension skills, as indicated by their performance on a story comprehension task. The program aims: 1) to increase knowledge of text structure in fictional stories; and 2) to apply this knowledge to re/telling fictional stories. The program is designed to be implemented by a speech-language therapist (SLT) in 2 one-hour sessions per week, over a 6-week period.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Talk Boost Key Stage 2
Talk Boost KS2 (TBKS2) is a targeted intervention for 7-10 year olds who have ‘low-average oral language’. It aims to help them to narrow the gap between their language skills and those of their peers. It consists of a combination of small group sessions with additional whole class activities, and also home-based tasks. TBKS2 covers the areas of language and communication which are key skills for children during Key Stage 2 to support them to access the academic and social curriculum.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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