Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Expressive Language

Short description

This is a clinician-directed approach where the SLP uses specific stimuli, explicit reinforcement contingencies, and expects the child to imitate or produce specific targets upon stimulation that moves through a planned sequence of treatment stages (Hedge 2008).

Long description

This is a clinician-directed approach where the SLP selects specific language targets, designs a treatment environment, and implements the treatment. The SLP uses specific stimuli including modeling, prompting, and manual guidance; uses explicit reinforcement contingencies, expects the child to imitate or produce specific targets upon stimulation and moves through a planned sequence of treatment stages (Hedge 2008).