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Challenging our own presumptions is the key to tackling educational disadvantage

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Evelyne is a lecturer in the department of psychology at Goldsmiths. She studied Speech and Language Therapy, Neuroscience and Psychology. She conducts research on infant neurocognitive development and the role of early communicative experience in shaping this process.

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Megan Dixon is a doctoral student and associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University

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Search for a particular title, search a keyword or just click on any book that looks interesting to start reading. You can read the full book, right here, at no cost.

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For information about audio-versions of our books, see here.

Find tips for reading with young children, available in 11 South African languages, here.

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Educational and clinical implications of SCALES

SCALES is the first population study of language development from school entry in the UK. The study aims to improve identification of children with developmental language disorder at school entry, and to better understand how language impacts social, behavioural, and academic development over the first few years of school.

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SCALES is the first population study of language development from school entry in the UK. The study aims to improve identification of children with developmental language disorder at school entry, and to better understand how language impacts social, behavioural, and academic development over the first few years of school.

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We are working with education and healthcare professionals to ensure that our research findings are shared and applied to practice. Our current activities are listed below.

Evidence Briefings

Case Studies

Read case studies showcasing our work with practitioners and highlighting the importance of good quality monitoring, evaluation and training in the early years

Toolkit: Teaching modern foreign languages in multilingual key stage 2 classrooms

This toolkit is aimed at teaching professionals delivering modern foreign language (MFL) lessons to Key Stage 2 pupils in multilingual primary school settings in England. If you are currently teaching MFL to classes that have a mix of both children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) and monolingual English speaking children, this toolkit is here to support your pedagogical practice.

Magazine Articles and Blogs

Training Videos and Short Talks

Working with Nurseries in the North West

We are working with nurseries in Stockport, Lancaster and Sefton to explore how we can support them to create a language enriched environment and design small research projects to address specific questions they have about language and communicative development.

We have shared some of our research findings with nursery practitioners in the area at their annual conference 2016.

Working with Speech and Language Therapists

We have developed a workshop on specific research techniques for speech and language therapists, in collaboration with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Where possible, we will share any relevant materials from on our website, including comprehension and elicitation materials our researchers use that could be of use to SLTs. We have also delivered webinars as part of #SLTLearn.

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This assessment plays an important role in assessing a child's receptive (hearing) vocabulary. It helps you identify any delay in vocabulary development, even before children are in full-time education.
BPVS3 is a one-to-one test in a simple and easy to administer format. For each question, you say a word and the pupil responds by selecting a picture from four options that best illustrates that word's meaning.

As no reading or spoken response is required, BPVS3 can be used to assess language development in non-readers, pupils with expressive language impairments, pupils with autism and other related communication difficulties, as well as those with English as an Additional Language (EAL). To help pupils who may be colour vision deficient, the large-format illustrations have black outlines and vivid colours.

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Leading vocabulary assessment for standard English from age 3 to 16 years.

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Delayed language skills lead to under-performance later in life, yet many primary school children have unidentified speech and language difficulties. WellComm can help you to turn this around.
Both the Early Years and the Primary toolkits enable you to quickly and easily identify children needing support. They're quick and simple to use (requiring no speech and language expertise), and the traffic light scoring format of the instant reports makes them quick to interpret.

Both toolkits come with an age-appropriate Big Book of Ideas providing a total of over 150 instant, play-based activities so you can take appropriate action straight away. Activities can be used with parents at home too, so that support is provided whether or not a child is referred to a speech and language therapist

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Both the Early Years and the Primary toolkits enable you to quickly and easily identify children needing support.

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NALDIC is the national subject association for English as an additional language. NALDIC provides a welcoming, vibrant, professional forum for learning more about English as an Additional Language (EAL) and bilingual learners in schools. You don't have to be an EAL teacher or EAL specialist to join us. We welcome members from a range of settings, schools and organisations. Our mission is to promote the effective teaching and learning of EAL and bilingual pupils across the UK.

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Are you looking for an EAL course, a conference or a trainer?

NALDIC hosts regular professional development events and trainings around the country. We promote best practice in the teaching and learning of EAL and bilingual pupils through these activities.

You can also browse our listing of Associate Members, who provide training and consultancy in your area.

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Online training materials, including video and documents, are only accessible to NALDIC members.

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The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first UK population study of language development and disorder at school entry. The study is funded by Wellcome and the ESRC and involves more than 180 schools across Surrey

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SCALES - Literacy, Language & Communication Laboratory

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The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first UK population study of language development and disorder at school entry. The study is funded by Wellcome and the ESRC and involves more than 180 schools across Surrey

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Communicating the Curriculum Resources

For each statement in the Spoken Language Programme of Study, this resource provides descriptors for what to expect at the end of each year in primary school. This includes information about the aspects of language which contribute to the statement. For each year group, a pupil statement is also provided which begins with 'I can ...', 'I try' or 'I know ...'.
There are two formats of the Programme of Study Statements:
The first sets out progress against each Programme of Study statement for all year groups from 1-6.

The second provides an overview of all 12 Programme of Study statements for each year group.

Communicating the Curriculum also provides guidelines to support the recording of pupil performance: below what is expected, at the expected level, above what is expected and a mastery level. These reflect the frequency, confidence, consistency and context in which children demonstrate the skills and are based on what is known about how children typically develop language. We know schools will rightly be deciding their own descriptors for progress and attainment those we've used are guidelines only. Schools should use their own system and 'Communicating the Curriculum' will support them with this.

We have also produced template summary tables which provide a space for teachers to record and track progress both for individual pupils and whole classes across the Spoken Language Programme of Study.

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NAPLIC has launched a series of online learning modules designed for professionals who have some understanding of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), but who wish to develop greater insight and skill with diagnosing the condition.

These free modules are between 20 and 60 minutes long and feature additional handouts and resources.

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NAPLIC has launched a series of online learning modules designed for professionals who have some understanding of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), but who wish to develop greater insight and skill with diagnosing the condition. These free modules are between 20 and 60 minutes long and feature additional handouts and resources.

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A practice guide is a publication that presents recommendations for educators to address challenges in their classrooms and schools. They are based on reviews of research, the experiences of practitioners, and the expert opinions of a panel of nationally recognized experts.

To search by Topic or Keyword, use the Practice Guide Search.

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A practice guide is a publication that presents recommendations for educators to address challenges in their classrooms and schools. They are based on reviews of research, the experiences of practitioners, and the expert opinions of a panel of nationally recognized experts. To search by Topic or Keyword, use the Practice Guide Search.

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The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) is a research centre transforming understanding of how children learn to communicate with language and delivering the evidence base necessary to design effective interventions in early years' education and healthcare. LuCiD funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

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Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives

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Speech and Language UK: Changing young lives

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We are Speech and Language UK - we want every child to face the future with confidence. For 1.7 million children in the UK, learning to talk and understand words feel like an impossible hurdle.