Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Pragmatics / Social Skills / Life Skills

Short description

Responsivity Education/Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (RE/PMT) is an intervention for children with language delays who have a very limited or nonexistent lexical inventory and may be having significant difficulties in their production of nonlinguistic communicative acts. In RE/PMT the SLP teaches specific gestures, vocalizations, and coordinated eye gaze behavior. The Responsivity education component of RE/PMT targets parents’ compliance to and recoding of children’s verbal and nonverbal acts (Fey, et al., 2006).

Long description

This is an intervention for children with language delays who have a very limited or nonexistent lexical inventory and may be having significant difficulties in their production of nonlinguistic communicative acts. In PMT steps are taken directly to teach specific gestures, vocalizations, and coordinated eye gaze behavior. The Responsivity education component of RE/PMT targets parents’ compliance to and recoding of children’s verbal and nonverbal acts (Fey, et al., 2006).