Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Pragmatics / Social Skills / Life Skills

Short description

Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (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 PMT the SLP teaches specific gestures, vocalizations, and coordinated eye gaze behavior to communicate (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 the SLP teaches other modalities for communication including specific gestures, vocalizations, and coordinated eye gaze behavior (Fey, et al., 2006).