Language and communication are vital skills that all children need to learn if they are to thrive and meet their potential. However, research has shown that many of the most disadvantaged children may not be receiving the early help they need in order to enable their language skills to flourish.
Research suggests that even by the age of two years, children in low-income families may already be six months behind their peers in language development, a gap that may have grown to more than two years by the time they enter school at age five (see More information). With a recent report by Save the Children suggesting that one in five children in the UK have lives blighted by poverty, providing early intervention to support children’s language development becomes an urgent priority.
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