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:

• 01Mar2002
  Research: The Pros and Cons of Dummies: What a speech pathologist should know

  In her article, Dr. Elise Baker provides speech pathologists with an overview of research regarding the key issues associated with dummies, so that they can provide parents of young children and infants with research-based information regarding dummy use.

• 26Feb2002
  Research: Exploring the link between language and behaviour

  Summary of Language skills of children with EBD: a literature review, by Gregory J Benner, J Ron Nelson, Michael H Epstein, Journal of Emotional and Behavioural Disorders.

• 23Feb2001
  Policy: Bookstart

  A summary article on Bookstart, it's history and funders.