Speech Therapy and Parenting for Early Socio-communicAtive SKills

"The intervention consists of 8 45-minute, weekly sessions over two months. These sessions may take place in various settings, such as free play, snack time, or structured activities. The speech therapist will use these settings to help parents observe intersubjective and social-communicative behaviors, providing guidance and strategies to support them.~The following topics will be addressed: Attention; Multisensory Stimulation and Integration: Sensitivity and Responsiveness; Communicative Codes and Preference/Discrimination; Gestures; Intentionality and Communicative Styles.~These topics are not structured into rigid levels for each session. Instead, several topics may be addressed within the same session and revisited across multiple sessions. This flexibility allows the speech therapist to adapt the intervention based on observations, interactions with the child, and discussions with the parent."

The standard speech therapy intervention, as typically conducted in rehabilitation centers, consists of 8 weekly sessions, each lasting 45 minutes, over a two-month period (same as the experimental intervention). During these sessions, the therapist may provide various stimulations aimed at enhancing the child's vocalization, verbal comprehension, and speech production. While the therapist may offer guidance to parents on how to continue these stimulations in daily routines, they will not be directly involved in the sessions unless strictly necessary.