Intensive interaction

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.

Instructional language modification

Instructional language modification targets teachers’ oral and written language used in the classroom to improve the oral and written language of adolescents with Language Impairment. Intervention involves four modification techniques: teachers’ written language, teachers’ oral language, information processing and direct vocabulary instruction. Teachers are trained by a Speech Language Pathologist in these techniques over a 10-week period, one 50-minute session per week.

Contextual instruction, analytical instruction, and anchored ...

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).

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