The EEF Early Years Toolkit tells us that approaches for promoting communication and language can have a significant impact on children’s development, boosting progress by an additional seven months on average. These approaches can be particularly beneficial for children from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and also tend to be low-cost.
However, no two programmes are the same – all have a different focus and follow a particular structure.
With such a variety of programmes on offer, including many currently being offered at no or low cost through the DfE Education Recovery Programme, it can be challenging to decide which may be best for you, your setting and your children.
The EEF, in collaboration with DfE’s Stronger Practice Hubs, has commissioned eight communication and language research projects to find out more about what works in early years education, and we are looking for early years settings to take part.
