and last, Wendy Lee is following up on Neil's presentation with a focus on children with #SLCN and #DevLangDis. So focus on oracy and teaching children oracy skills. Speaking from a SLT and practice point of view. #NAPLIC21 pathways to invervention to children. Intervention at tier 1 - high quality teaching and interactions for all children. Schools should monitor progress. raising red flags and risk factors for children struggling with oracy education and experiencing difficulties. #NAPLIC21

Professor Neil Mercer is next discussing talk in the classroom and now it relates to all children. #NAPLIC21 Has become confidence about characterising talk in the classroom and how it can help children. Oracy terminology is used to put it in the fore and put in on par with literacy, numeracy, etc. Oracy has more punch than talk, etc. #NAPLIC21

Next up is @ReadOxford - looking at children's book language and children's language and literacy development. #NAPLIC21 variation in language matters for academic and socioemotional development, long term prospects. More language in preschool -> better language later. Input matters #NAPLIC21

Oh no! I must have misunderstood when we'd be back! I've just put my headphones on now. getting back into it now. #NAPLIC21. Now listening to Mary-Jo Spearey and Pippa Cotterill now. Discussing joint working in Wales. #NAPLIC21

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

right -we're back now. next up is Charles Hulme to discuss early language development. going to tweet in a thread this time. ah - always forget something! #NAPLIC21