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Deirdre MacEvilly; Katie Maguire; Geraldine Brosnan; Louise Gaffney – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
In the last decade, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have observed an unprecedented rise in young children presenting with suicidal ideation, needing urgent assessment and treatment. Once stabilised, CAMHS professionals often refer these children to speech and language therapists (SLTs) for assessment of and support for their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Health
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Soares, Erin; Miller, Therese; Ciffone, Kathleen; Read, Kirsten – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) seemingly prefer tablets to other methods of intervention, though professionals posit that a therapist's presence is beneficial. In this experiment, two unique e-stories were created specifically for children with ASD. Ten children with low- or nonverbal ASD heard each story presented on an iPad; one…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Electronic Publishing, Handheld Devices
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Law, James; Plunkett, Charlene C.; Stringer, Helen – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and social, emotional and behaviour difficulties (SEBD) commonly overlap, yet we know relatively little about the mechanism linking the two, specifically to what extent it is possible to reduce behaviour difficulties by targeted communication skills. The EPPI Centre systematic review methodology was…
Descriptors: Intervention, Communication Skills, Behavior Problems, Young Children