Use elicited imitation to make target forms more salient and to give the child practice with phonological patterns that are difficult to access or produce. Avoid telegraphic speech, always presenting grammatical models in well-formed phrases and sentences.ġ0. Systematically contrast forms used by the child with more mature forms from the adult grammar, using sentence recasts.ĩ. The kids are playing cars BECAUSE it is fun.Ĩ. Toca Life apps allow for targeting of multiple goals including categorization (say, in the store or home), sentence formulation and storytelling in the context of the app.ĭon't put her IN the bed! She should be OUT of bed.

The authors assert that students with grammatical impairment rarely have this as their only communication problem, and that grammatical intervention alone does not always impact other areas of deficit. Grammatical form should rarely, if ever, be the only aspect of language and communication that is targeted in a language intervention program. This principle asserts a general philosophy of intervention, but for me speaks to the kind of functional communication that can be elicited through conversation and play around an app such as Toca Life: City or Toca Life: Town, and the student's greater enjoyment of communication situations hopefully as a result of that intervention.Ģ. The basic goal of all grammatical interventions should be to help the child to achieve greater facility in the comprehension and use of syntax and morphology in the service of conversation, narration, exposition, and other textual genres in both written and oral modalities.

This is a great article for any SLP or language interventionist to read, but I wanted to present it with ideas related to the principles being used in context, in particular the features and content of the Toca Life Apps.ġ. Fey, Long, & Feinstack (2003) sought to outline 'Ten Principles of Grammar Facilitation for Children With Specific Language Impairments' with research tie-ins relevant to all ages, but particularly for ages 3-8. Following up on my last post on the 'Toca Life' open-ended sandbox-style apps, I recently read a 'Clinical Focus' article in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and thought it shed light on how these apps (and others) can be used in context in therapy.

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