Dialogic reading, is a therapy approach to shared book reading that is used to increase young children's expressive vocabulary. It focuses on adult and child sharing in the experience of book reading. The goal is to shift the interaction and conversation from being adult-led to child-led.

The average length of the sentences that a child typically uses is known as mean length utterance. The goal in expanding MLU is to help children articulate their wants and needs using more words in each sentence spoken.

Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) is a natural play-based intervention approach that can be used to target receptive and expressive language skills. EMT follows child initiations and interests to create opportunities to model and prompt language in familiar contexts. 

Sequencing requires the ability to break down an event into simple steps and put those steps in order. Sequencing is a treatment activity that can be used in speech therapy to target the development of expressive language by giving students a structure to learn how to tell stories and personal narratives using self-speech.

Expanding Expression Tool (EET) is a kit designed to help improve both oral and written language. This tool uses a color-coded chart to help describe and categorize objects.