Title: EARLI Program
Description: The EARLI Program is an authoritative program to sequential lessons designed to facilitate a young child’s development of receptive language and use of expressive language. The EARLI Program is appealing to all young children and particularly beneficial to children with delayed verbal language and special education needs. This innovative education system consists of a series of over 180 lessons which follow the natural sequence of language development. 
Volume I is designed to help develop verbal receptive language; Volume II is concerned with verbal expressive language. Each daily lesson includes an objective, a list of materials needed to implement the lessons, specific instructions for implementation, exit criteria for completion of the lessons, and easily recognizable illustrations to augment and to use in implementing the activity. The lessons may be used individually or with small groups of children, and are designed to last from ten to twenty minutes. Because the EARLI Program does not require continual direction, intervention or monitoring by the professional educator, it is ideal to use by paraprofessionals.

The EARLI Program’s unique construction allows the education the flexibility to structure use of the program to meed the individual needs of each child. The classroom teacher may use the EARLI Program to build a language enrichment program or a rehabilitative language program. Either way, use of the EARLI Program will enhance the individual education plan for each child in a learning situation. Children will enjoy this fresh new approach to learning and educators will find it an invaluable component of their teaching program.
Subjects: language development, early childhood education, vocabulary lists
People: Lynne Mann, Claudia Rees, Humanics Publishing