Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Expressive Language

Short description

Interactive Language Development Teaching is a directed language treatment approach to teach syntactic structures. The SLP reads a story to the child and then asks a series of questions designed to evoke specific language structures from the child (Lee, et al, 1975).

Long description

Interactive Language Development Teaching is a directed language treatment approach to teach syntactic structures. The SLP reads a story to the child and then asks a series of questions designed to evoke specific language structures from the child.

Method:
1. Select a story that targets language concepts (camping, cooking) and specific language responses (auxiliary is or preposition on).
2. Read the story to the child.
3. Ask questions frequently as you tell the story to evoke specific response (Daddy said a bear is coming [part of the story]. What did Daddy say? [question to evoke the response bear is coming] (Lee, et al, 1975).