In the latter part of the 20th century evidence was accumulating about the effectiveness of
various intervention programmes for young children in disadvantaged families. Some small …

There is limited provision of speech therapy resources to social education centres
throughout the UK. Thus the need to provide the best possible service is particularly …

This report of the Withywood Speech and Language Therapy (WiSaLT) project describes the
process of setting up and evaluating a mainstream school-based and-funded speech and …

Many UK children with severe and persistent language impairment (SLI) attend local
mainstream schools. Although this should provide an excellent language‐learning …

The research on specific language impairment (SLI) is very messy. It is full of apparently
contradictory findings. For example, on the one hand, the article by Nippold and Schwarz …

BACKGROUND TO THE REVIEW 1. In early 2002, the Scottish Executive embarked on a
national review of Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational …

Purpose: To compare children's speech, language and early literacy outcomes, and
caregivers' empowerment and satisfaction following provision of 12 sessions of direct …

Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for practitioners working to
improve children's language and communication skills. Showcasing effective approaches in …

Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs) were intended to break the intergenerational
transmission of poverty, school failure and social exclusion by enhancing the life chances for …

This paper is based on a study by Joffe and Pring (2008) which investigated assessment
and therapy methods used by Speech Language Therapists (SLTs) in the United Kingdom …