next up is Louise Buckland discussing the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) that was just discussed by Charles Hulme.Louise works at St John's primary school. Going to tweet in a thread again #NAPLIC21
school had a high number of children with speech and language need. Louise went on a two day training. Was part of Phase 1 of implementing NELI into schools. First cohort is not in year 3 #NAPLIC21
*now in year 3
some children with more severe needs were not given intervention, as it wouldn't have been appropriate. NELI is not for everyone. Those with high needs need more targeted approach and 1:1 sessions. they are very careful about which children to include #NAPLIC21
Children assessed at the end of the Nursery year - nursery school attached to school. Intervention started for the chosen children in September. Children know reception year teachers already. children joining school have settling in period before assessment #NAPLIC21
Daily interventions can be a strain on children. Running interventions outside and making it engaging - creating a treasure hunt makes it more enjoyable and interesting for children. They accommodate the fact that some children have other issues - fine motor problems. #NAPLIC21
Now two people trained on intervention. Louise takes the more sever cases now and tries to work with SLT targets to best support the child. Tweaking the intervention of children's individual needs. #NAPLIC21
parents are often very happy for additional support and sometimes take on board tips to help children at home. parents notice the language improvements. Teachers has also noted improvements. some children just need this support and not further intervention #NAPLIC21
How is the intervention measured? Two children no longer need intervention and don't need extra support in class. Two children needed more support and have been diagnosed with #DevLangDis - evidence for this intervention has helped get #EHCP for these children #NAPLIC
In second group (the above tweet is about first group), one child with EAL struggled in classroom. this child's English is not very good and no longer needs intervention. #NAPLIC21
Message for other schools - NELI helps children improve and also helps with emerging literacy skills, due to the focus on the second half of NELI, particularly phonological awareness. This will really make a different to emerging literacy for these children #NAPLIC
This is particularly important during the pandemic. Potentially these children haven't had access to early experiences that help build early language and literacy skills. One child was a reluctant speaker, but now is confident in talking to other children #NAPLIC21
Cheryl Dyer now taking questions along with Charles Hulme. Currently NELI is only funded for English Schools - a reflection of the funding of education in the UK. NELI training is now online - people can do in their own time. Removed a big obstacles. #NAPLIC21
I think they said schools in other parts of the UK can still buy into NELI. Schools with high levels of free school meals are targeted at the minute. #NAPLIC21
Importance of early intervention at the beginning of learning journey (reception year) it pays off and really helps improve literacy, behaviour and ability to engage in education. This is particularly important given the pandemic. #NAPLIC21
Nursery NELI program - hopefully this will help produce major improvements in children's language skills. And now we're done. #NAPLIC21
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