Education secretary Damien Hinds has launched two projects worth £13.5 million aimed at giving disadvantaged parents the confidence to help their children learn new words through activities such as reading and singing. This news follows on the heels of government plans for a £10 million initiative on a new baseline assessment for children at the start of Reception. This ‘tunnel vision’ approach to education, focusing on symptoms and outcomes fails to address the fundamental issue of children’s readiness for formal education.
Just as immature speech and language skills, if not the result of hearing or specific language impairment can be specifically linked to lack of opportunity and experience of conversation, reading and vocabulary, the same can be true for the development of motor skills.
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