Hanen More Than Words
The More Than Words Program was designed specifically for parents of children ages 5 and under on the autism spectrum. The program provides parents with tools, strategies and support to develop their child’s communication skills.
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Hanen More Than Words
The More Than Words Program was designed specifically for parents of children ages 5 and under on the autism spectrum. The program provides parents with tools, strategies and support to develop their child’s communication skills.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent training (RMIA)
Motor Imitation Antecedent (RMIA) therapy uses the principles of behaviorism to help nonverbal children with autism acquire first words. It involves teaching children to imitate a series of simple movements (such as clap, tap foot, touch head, touch nose, touch mouth) very quickly.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Pre-teaching vocabulary
PTV provides a principled, evidenced approach for demonstrating, modelling and teaching children how to learn new words in order to promote independent word learning. It aims to support and scaffold the naturalistic way teachers already discuss new words in their classrooms by providing a structured pathway for word learning, ensuring children learn the words well enough to understand and use them effectively.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Picture exchange communication system
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) was originally developed for children with autism to improve their communication skills (Bondy and Frost, 1994). It is specifically designed for the children to communicate with picture cards but with little or no spoken language and is a specific, manualised intervention.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Phoneme factory
Phoneme Factory is a suite of seven computerised activities including sound symbol matching, rhyming, blending, minimal pair discrimination. They are designed to increase children’s processing of speech sound skills leading to changes in the child’s speech sound (phonological) system.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Parents and Children Together (PACT)
PACT is a programme of therapy for young children, aged 3 to 6, with speech sound difficulties, which is an approach that can be used by speech and language therapists. During therapy the speech and language therapist (SLT) involves parents and significant others, possibly including teachers.
Evidence Rating: Indicative
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Earobics
Earobics (Cognitive Concepts, 1997; Diehl, 1999) is a comprehensive computerised intervention program for training phonological awareness and auditory–language processing.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Phonology with Reading Programme (P+R)
Phonology with Reading Programme (P+R) is an intervention approach which is inspired by research on reading difficulty. The majority of studies have been concerned with reading of single words and suggest that combining speech sound (phonological) training with reading is successful in facilitating reading development in poor readers.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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Word
The aim of WORD intervention is to improve children’s word-finding difficulties. Strategies involve encouraging reflection and the use of word finding strategies. As the programme progresses there is an increasing focus on meta-cognition and using words to communicate, as opposed to naming pictures). The intervention has both phonological and semantic components. The intervention evaluation study was conducted in the UK.
Evidence Rating: Moderate
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