Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Receptive Language

Short description

Literacy-based intervention is a language intervention program that engages the patient in literature-based activities featuring an implicit focus on oral and written language through shared storybook reading (Justice, et al, 2003, Kaderavek & Justice, 2002).

Long description

Literacy-based intervention is a language intervention program that engages the patient in literature-based activities featuring an implicit focus on oral and written language through shared storybook reading.

Method: SLP and patient share storybook reading and story retelling activity. Different genres (rhyming, narrative) and formats (lift-the-flap, big books) can be used. The SLP uses strategies to promote the patient’s active involvement and verbal involvement.

1. Predication: After the book is introduced the SLP asks the patient what they think might happen in the story; during the reading stop and ask/give the patient opportunities to predict or discuss narrative events.
2. Dialogic strategies: ask open-ended questions, responding to patient’s interests, and give praise/feedback.
3. After the reading of the story the SLP leads the patient through a retelling activity such as reenacting the story or drawing and discussing pictures representing key story events (Justice, et al, 2003, Kaderavek & Justice, 2002).