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EARLY INTERVENTION PROJECT: EVALUATION OF WILSTAAR, HANEN AND SPECIALIST PLAYGROUP
Author(s) -
Awcock Claire,
Habgood Nicola
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682829809179475
Subject(s) - interim , intervention (counseling) , psychology , test (biology) , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , political science , paleontology , law , biology
This paper describes an early intervention project which combines a three tiered approach to speech and language provision for pre‐school children. Jointly funded by I CAN, AFASIC, Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust and the Department of Health, this two and a half year project aims to reduce the numbers of children and severity of their speech and language difficulties on entering school. The project uses the following approaches ‐ the Ward Infant Language Screening Test Assessment Acceleration Remediation (WILSTAAR), the Hanen parent programmes and a specialist speech and language playgroup. In this paper these approaches are described with an explanation of how each is being evaluated and where possible interim results have been presented.