Around ten percent of all children could have a disorder where language does not develop as expected. This often effects vocabulary skills, i.e., finding the words to express wants, needs and ideas, which can influence behaviours linked to wellbeing and daily functioning, such as concentration, independence, social interactions and managing emotions. Without specialist support, needs can increase in severity and continue to adulthood. The type of support, known as interventions showing strongest evidence for improving vocabulary with some signs of improved behaviour and wellbeing are ones that use word-webs. These are diagrams consisting of lines that connect sound and meaning information about a word to strengthen the child's word knowledge and use. The diagrams resemble what is commonly known as mind-maps and are widely used by Speech and Language Therapists in partnership with schools to help children with language difficulties. In addition, interventions delivered through mobile-devices has led in some cases to increased vocabulary gains with positive influence on wellbeing and academic attainment. With advances in technology and the availability of user-friendly mobile devices to capture, combine and replay multimedia content, new opportunities for designing bespoke vocabulary instruction have emerged that are without timing and location constraints. This brings the potential to engage and motivate users and harbour independence through functional strategies that support each child's unique language needs. To achieve this, children with language disorder, their parents/carers, support professionals and software development team members must work jointly to create an intervention that is fit for purpose. This is the first research planned to explore the collaborative development and acceptability of a digitally enhanced vocabulary intervention for child language disorder.

翻译：约10%的儿童可能存在语言发育未达预期水平的情况。这种障碍常影响词汇技能，即寻找表达愿望、需求和想法的词汇能力，进而可能影响与福祉和日常功能相关的行为表现，如专注力、独立性、社交互动和情绪管理。若缺乏专业支持，其需求严重程度可能加剧并持续至成年。现有证据表明，对改善词汇能力效果最显著、并能部分改善行为与福祉的干预措施，是采用“词汇网络”（word-webs）的方法。这些由连接词汇语音与语义信息的线段构成的示意图，类似于常见的思维导图，被言语治疗师与学校广泛合作应用于帮助语言困难儿童。此外，通过移动设备实施的干预措施在某些案例中已显示出词汇能力提升的效果，并对儿童福祉与学业成就产生积极影响。随着技术进步及用户友好型移动设备在多媒体内容采集、整合与回放领域的普及，设计不受时空限制的定制化词汇教学方案成为可能。这为通过支持每位儿童独特语言需求的功能性策略，激发用户参与度、提升动力并培养其独立性创造了契机。为实现这一目标，患有语言障碍的儿童、其家长/照护者、专业支持人员及软件开发团队成员必须协同合作，构建符合实际需求的干预方案。这是首个计划探索儿童语言障碍数字化增强型词汇干预方案协作开发与可接受性的研究。