Research and policy

See also our Research reports.

• 19Apr2011
  Policy: The EYFS review is exhilarating stuff

  Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust, discusses the EYFS review.

• 12Jan2011
  Research: Do Babies Learn From Baby Media?

  A recently published study from the United States suggests that infants learn relatively little from DVDs which purport to teach them words.

• 13Dec2010
  Research: The impact of Sure Start Local Programmes on five-year-olds and their families

  This research follows up on a randomly selected group of participants from a previous study and investigates the impact of Sure Start on a range of factors, compared with a control group with similar economic and demographic characteristics but no access

• 13Dec2010
  Research: Towards universal early years provision: analysis of take-up by disadvantaged families

  This study aimed to analyse how the take-up of early years provision varies by different dimensions of disadvantage and the main barriers experienced by disadvantaged families.

• 19Oct2010
  Research: Talk To Your Baby's Face to Face research project

  Talk To Your Baby has undertaken an innovative research project to identify key messages for parents and carers in relation to communicating with babies and young children, and the best way to promote these messages.

• 29Jul2010
  Research: Adult-child conversations and their importance to language development

  This study of 275 children, aged between two months and 48 months, showed that the amount of adult-child conversation has a significant impact on children’s language development.

• 28Jul2010
  Research: The Cognitive Consequences of Early Bilingualism

  This article looks at the effects of early bilingualism and shows that it can affect fundamental aspects of neural and cognitive development including self-control and knowledge acquisition.

• 08Jul2010
  Research: 'When does the music begin?'

  Using the musicality/music continuum to construct musical interplay with the medically fragile newborn infant.

• 10Jun2010
  Research: Buggies

  Talk To Your Baby commissioned research about the effects of forward-facing buggies on parent and child interaction.

• 03Jun2010
  A more engaged parenting style has benefits for children's development

  This study looked at parent behaviour and children's development between infancy and early childhood and how these two factors vary according to socioeconomic indicators.