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Post-pandemic language intervention has lasting impact, research finds

2 mins read Education Health Coronavirus
The national scale-up of a programme which aimed to reverse the pandemic’s damage to children’s speech and language skills, has a sustained positive impact on young school pupils, a new analysis finds.
A new analysis suggests that the benefits of early language intervention are long-lasting. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock
A new analysis suggests that the benefits of early language intervention are long-lasting. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock - Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) was rolled out with funding from the Department for Education across state-funded primary schools nationally over a two-year period, aiming to tackle speech and language delays in young children caused by successive lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The programme, which was accessed by almost 11,000 schools, catered to four-and five-year olds who were identified as in need of support, and delivered individual and group sessions to children over a 20-week period.

The Education Endowment Fund’s (EEF) new long-term analysis based on previous EEF trials of the programme, proved that NELI had a lasting positive impact on young children’s oral language, early word reading and reading comprehension.

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