Examples of Interventions

Targeted level

“Some children’s needs cannot be met solely by universal provision. By definition, this group should be a mobile group with children going back to the universal level or moving up to a specialist level.” (Jordan and Thomas, 2010, page 6)

At a targeted level, services may be provided by both the wider and specialist work force.

In Worcestershire, support at this level may include evidence-based interventions delivered in a range of pre-school and school settings. Targeted intervention should be short term, targeting specific speech, language or communication skills with built in opportunities to generalise the skills developed into everyday situations. 

A range of targeted interventions can be provided including: 

• Adult Child Interaction
• Attention and Listening
• Early Language Skills, e.g. Language Link, Language Land (PDF)
• Receptive Language
• Expressive Language, e.g. Talking Partners (PDF)
• Vocabulary, e.g. Word Aware
• Verbal Reasoning, e.g. Language for Thinking
• Narrative e.g. the Black Sheep Press narrative programmes
• Social Communication Skills, e.g. Time to Talk, Socially Speaking, The Friendship Formula, TalkAbout
• Speech sound programmes

Targeted intervention should be delivered by the most appropriate person in the most appropriate place – usually practitioners in schools and settings with the necessary competencies and confidence gained through support or training from specialist practitioners. In some cases, targeted intervention may be delivered by a speech and language therapist, a speech and language therapy assistant, or a Learning Support Team specialist teacher or teaching assistant.

Named Teaching Assistants and their role

© Worcestershire County Council and Worcestershire PCT 2011.

This page was last reviewed 23 April 2013 at 14:20.
The page is next due for review 20 October 2014.