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On July 10th we presented the RCT findings at the Child Language Symposium in Newcastle. Our abstract and a recording of the presentation are below. Abstract The provision of language enriching early years environments in early childhood educationand care (ECEC) … Continue reading →

Elaine Ashton presented at the Early Childhood Voices conference and a recording of her presentation is here: https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/ecv2022-258/ Background: Bilingualism does not cause or contribute to speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN). However, bilingual children are just as likely to have … Continue reading →

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 →

Language and communication is a high priority in early years settings and staff provide support for the growing number of children with needs in this area. The LIVELY project coincided with the pandemic, so we knew that COVID was a … 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 →