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Burgoyne, Kelly; Duff, Fiona; Snowling, Maggie; Buckley, Sue; Hulme, Charles – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This article reports the evaluation of a 6-week programme of teaching designed to support the development of phoneme blending skills in children with Down syndrome (DS). Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver the intervention to individual children in daily 10-15-minute sessions, within a broader context of reading and language…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Speech Therapy, Phonemes, Intervention
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Emms, Laila; Gardner, Hilary – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
The primary purpose of this study was to establish whether contrasting teaching methods had an effect on performance accuracy in the recall of graphic symbols. The secondary purpose was to establish whether the iconicity of symbols had an effect on performance accuracy. A direct symbol-teaching method and a contextual symbol-teaching method were…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Physical Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
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Martin, Deirdre – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2008
The paper presents a new way of understanding and investigating inter-professional learning across agencies for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) in schools in England. It considers specifically speech and language therapy staff and school staff learning to work together and working to learn together in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Interprofessional Relationship