Principles of language intervention 0-5y Flashcards
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)/ multi-tiered system of support?
Tier I, II, III interventions
Factors to consider in choosing intervention
Child factors, family/social/environmental factors, intervention context (location/agent/mode), naturalness
Clinician-led interventions for developing comprehension 0-5y
- Focussed stimulation
- Asking complex questions, concrete to abstract age-appropriate, then simplify if necessary
- Auditory bombardment to trigger spontaneous rehearsal
- Visualising and verbalising program, encouraging child to make visual images in their mind to assist retrieval
Clinician-led interventions for developing semantics 0-5y
- Focussed stimulation
- Encouraging developing vocab by defining, working in themes, teaching to request definitions, use phonology
- Developing semantic networks by defining, describe, categorise, associate, depict, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
- Phonemic segmentation
- Appropriate target vocabulary
- Lexicon pirate program: learning by discovering lexical gaps
- Colourful semantics, eg. different colour for each wh-question
Clinician-led interventions for developing MLU and grammar 0-5y
- Conversational recast: repeating by modelling language forms that go beyond child’s current level
- Scripted routines/stories: building language routines around daily activities to focus on target vocab/grammatical forms/MLU
Clinician-led interventions for developing emerging/early literacy 0-5y
- Joint book reading: to hear repetitive language, contextual language fro the story/pictures, practice language targets
What are some approaches to work on parent training? (4) 0-5y
- It Takes Two To Talk (ITTT)
- Focussed Stimulation
- Enhanced Milieu Teaching
- Responsive Interaction Training
What are five principles of adult learning?
- Active participation
- Motivation to learn
- Adults are goal-oriented
- Be interested in adult’s thought/opinions
- Encourage engagement
- Build rapport
- Provide specific constructive feedback
- Understand their family in a holistic way
Parent-led focussed stimulation 0-5y
- Child provided with models of target (vocab/grammatical morpheme)
- Child provided with opportunities to produce target without being requested to
- Adult gives feedback/corrections
Parent-led Enhanced Milieu Teaching 0-5y
- Naturalistic, conversation-based
- Consider environmental arrangement, responsive interaction and milieu teaching, take child’s lead in communication
- Can add Mand-model approach, adult initiated communication with a request, eg. ‘what’s that?’
Responsive Interaction Training for parents 0-5y
- Increase social communication by enhancing quality of interactions
- Follow child’s lead, wait for child to initiate, be at child’s physical level
- One turn at a time, wait with anticipation, ask questions to encourage turns
- Imitate, interpret child’s message, responsive labelling, expand child’s utterances, extend topic
Parent-led It Takes Two To Talk (ITTT) 0-5y
- Designed for parents of children 0-5y with language delay
- In small groups parents learn strategies to help children learn language naturally throughout their day
- Using everyday activities to support com
- Encourage ‘responsive’ interactions
- Encourage language shift to child’s level of understanding
Why word with educators in childcare settings?
- High quality EC services can make a big difference to development
- Development occurs in socially relevant and contextually meaningful environments
- BUT adults are using more directives, complex language, fewer contingent models
What are some childcare-based language interventions? (3) 0-5y
- Hanen’s Learning Language & Loving It
- Every Toddler Talking
- Nuffield Early Language Program
Hanen’s Learning Language and Loving It child-care led 0-5y
- Delivered by a SP with Hanen certification
- 8 group sessions or 6 individual sessions or online program
- Promotes language dev using everyday activities/routines/play
- Becoming attuned to interests and following child’s lead
- Adjusting adult talk to help children develop more advanced language
- Promoting interactions among children
- Facilitating language learning in pretend play
- Fostering emergent literacy skills
