The evolution of human communication is founded on interactions between people cooperating for a common purpose (Tomasello, 2017). McGinty et al., 2011). You can read more about language therapy ‘dosage’ here. There may be points of ‘diminishing returns’, where little additional benefit is derived from more language therapy (e.g. Learning plateaus and threshold effects exist for both language and literacy (e.g. high doses of therapy, infrequently (Schmitt et al., 2017).Kamhi 2014): increasing the frequency of language therapy does not always improve outcomes (e.g. Many people think that intense therapy is better than less intense therapy (e.g. Therapy that gets and holds a child’s attention is more effective than therapy that doesn’t (e.g. Children learn more when their attention is directed at the thing you are trying to teach them (e.g Eriskon, 2008). Good therapy foundations Joint attentionĬommunication is based on joint attention. Having done this work, we thought we’d share our key findings: A. We looked at the research – including an important systematic review published in March 2021 – talked to our clients, and reviewed our clinical data to see if we could distil the key ingredients of effective language therapy to improve the quality of our services for clients. This year, we revisited what we know about the effectiveness of our language therapy for children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Every year, we work to improve our practice.
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