Speech‐pathology‐based language intervention within an early childhood education environment

Children's Place, Ltd., is an educational daycare center serving a middle to upper class population children ranging in age from 1‐6 years. The school implements a speech‐pathology‐based language intervention program combining individual speech and language therapy by a speech and language pathologist with speech and language intervention by the teachers the classroom. Formal and informal consultations among the administrators, speech‐language pathologist, and teachers, together with systematic feedback to the children's parents, result in a comprehensive speech and language program that benefits both the typical and special needs population enrolled at the school.