A technology-based personalized language intervention program for PreK-Elementary students with deficits or delays in any area of language.
TeachTown Language Accelerator is a technology-based personalized language intervention program for PreK-Elementary students with deficits or delays in any area of language. Language Accelerator equips classroom teachers and school-based SLPs to provide language intervention at scale to help address their students’ current language deficits and prevent later language and academic difficulties. It is an essential component of early intervention for any student with developmental language disorder and/or language delays.
Language Accelerator is easy to use! Students love interacting with the engaging videos and visuals while working on targeted language skills that are unique to their learning profile. The personalized nature of the program ensures that each student is getting the ‘just right’ level of instruction to help them make measurable gains.
Language Accelerator begins with a placement assessment that measures students’ language skills across 6 language domains:
The placement evaluation also assesses a student’s articulation skills. The evaluation allows facilitators to quick start instruction as the program automatically assigns lessons at students’ individual developmental language level.
Next, students begin working on their personalized language developmental goals through a combination of teacher-led and student-led technology lessons. Most intervention will occur in a 1:1 setting, though teacher-led lessons may be appropriate for a small group of students who share similar areas of need, or as a whole group mini lesson to deliver explicit instruction.
Language Accelerator provides over 1400+ interactive, engaging technology lessons across 6 language domains, plus articulation.
Concepts are taught through concept instruction videos (CIVs) and multiple lesson types, including receptive label, scene displays, and categorization. Concept instruction videos include a variety of images and provide brief descriptions and information about the concept. This supports students building deep language knowledge, promotes generalization, and increases the amount of language to which students are exposed. Here’s an example of how this works for the concept banana.
Here we see how students learn to make connections between the name of the object (banana) and several of its characteristics and descriptors (yellow, fruit, has a peel).
In addition to the technology lessons, facilitators will both enjoy the numerous supplemental resources in the form of printable PDFs to further enrich students’ language development practice. Some resources, like Bingo cards and Core Word Flashcards, tie directly to the concepts from lessons. Others, like the Game Boards and Token Boards, supplement educator-led sessions in general.
There are also resources that focus on certain aspects of language development, such as handouts that can be given to families as well as ones for teachers that offer suggestions on how to promote that skill at home and in the classroom.
See sample bingo card to the right. Students practice animal identification with this supplemental resource.
With Language Accelerator, teachers and SLPs have access to the same student data, allowing for increased collaboration to contribute to a whole child approach to a student’s needs.
They can work together to analyze student progress in each of the six language domains, plus articulation and literacy-based activities, and update IEP goals and progress monitoring notes accordingly.
Language Accelerator reports are also easy to print and share with parents and caregivers. The reports are a great way to communicate to families how a student is progressing over time in their language goal areas.
Language Accelerator includes literacy-based language activities to support reading fluency and comprehension. These literacy-based activities include multiple children’s books with corresponding phonics and phonological awareness skills, sequencing practice, WH- questions, and more. The literacy-based language activities are available as PDFs and technology-lessons. The front cover of the delightful children’s book, Stone Soup, by Madame Noyer and adapted by TeachTown, is shown below, along with two sample literacy activities linked.
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