Author Archives: Emily

The Newcastle Phonological Awareness website, made by Speech and Language Therapists (SLT) for SLTs, teachers, teaching assistants and assistant SLTs, is available below. The website has been created by Senior Lecturer and Consultant SLT, Dr Helen Stringer and PhD student, … Continue reading →

Following the closure of schools across the UK in March 2020, many Speech and Language Therapy services had to deliver assessments and interventions remotely via telehealth. For the LIVELY project, adapting and developing assessments and interventions for remote delivery was … Continue reading →

The LIVELY Team have created a booklet of best practice. This booklet has been co-produced with North East Early Years Teachers, SENCOs, Teaching Assistants and Speech and Language Therapists. This booklet has been designed with the idea of being a … Continue reading →

Whilst scoring the Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) assessments, the LIVELY team noticed some small changes in the children’s language development were not being credited, for example, if a child who previously was using no agent is now using ‘mum’ … Continue reading →

Treatment fidelity has been an important consideration in the research process of the LIVELY project, to ensure that the Research Assistants (RAs) carried out the interventions consistently, in line with the manual and in line with each other.  Treatment fidelity … Continue reading →

Background The main part of the LIVELY project compared two language intervention approaches for monolingual English-speaking children: Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) and an adapted version of the Derbyshire Language Scheme (DLS).  The second part of the LIVELY project focussed … Continue reading →

As part of the LIVELY project, members of the team have developed four CPD sessions that are available on the LIVELY website. These are still available and can be accessed by you or your colleagues. We know some schools have … Continue reading →

Here is an update on the LIVELY project that has been shared with all the partner schools. We are currently busy analysing the data and will share more information once this is complete. Authors: Christine Jack, Emily Preston, Elaine Ashton, … Continue reading →

The Language Intervention in the Early Years (LIVELY) project commenced in November 2019, recruiting schools in the North East of England. The aim of the LIVELY project was to compare the efficacy of two different intervention approaches, each with a … Continue reading →