TY - JOUR T1 - Enhanced milieu training does not confer additional benefit over standard community interventions for toddlers with language delay JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315149 SP - edpract-2018-315149 AU - Amanda Jane Friend AU - Shona Corker Y1 - 2018/05/10 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2018/05/10/archdischild-2018-315149.abstract N2 - Setting: Nashville, USA.Patients: 97 toddlers aged 24–42 months with primary language delay.Exposure: Enhanced milieu training (EMT) compared with standard community interventions.Outcomes: Improvement in language ability at 6 and 12 months.Children in both the intervention and control arms showed significant improvement in language ability at 6 and 12 months. There was no significant difference between the two groups, with toddlers in both arms gaining an average of six points on the PLS-4 Auditory comprehension test Expressive subscale and seven points on the Receptive subscale. Toddlers in both arms used an average of 26 new words in a language sample.EMT results in improved language ability at 6 and 12 months, but the … ER -