Research and policy

Your research reports are relevant, succinct and readable. They enable me to keep up-to-date with literacy trends without having to trawl through pages of documentation.
Barbara Band, LRC Manager, The Emmbrook School, Wokingham

Understanding the implications that research and policy have on practice is key. Below is a bank of articles which will inform and provoke thought regarding literacy practice in schools.

Talk To Your Baby other policies:

• 21Jul2007
  Research: tackling low educational achievement

  This report looked at low educational achievement and what factors underpin this problem.

• 01Jun2007
  Research: Promoting Speech and Language - a themed study in fifteen Sure Start Local Programmes

  The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the emerging knowledge about speech, language and pre-literacy is being utilised in SSLPs, and the role played in this process by SaLTS.

• 25May2007
  Research: Visual language discrimination in infancy

  This study shows that four and six-month-old infants can discriminate languages (English from French) just from viewing silently presented articulations.

• 01Apr2007
  Research: Can television be good for children?

  A review of research on the beneficial effects of television in children's lives.

• 22Mar2007
  Policy: Every Parent Matters

  Extracts from the Government's Every Parent Matters policy paper

• 01Mar2007
  Policy: Early Years Foundation Stage (birth – five)

  Details on the Early Years Foundation Stage

• 15Feb2007
  Research: On your marks

  A simple test may show which children would benefit from early intervention, says Kathryn Duckworth.

• 08Nov2006
  Research: baby massage

  Three research reports into baby massage including: - Massage and mother baby interaction with depressed mothers - Massage of preterm newborns to improve growth and development - Impact of massage on infant stress

• 01Nov2006
  Policy: Children's centres practice guidance

  Details on the government guidance for Children's centres

• 01Nov2006
  Research: Development in the early years: its importance for school performance and adult outcomes

  A look at the impact of early development of social and language skills and the impact this can have on a child's future achievement.