Speech and language needs in the early years – DfE report

Our Reception and Infant Language Link assessments have received very favourable mentions in the recent DfE publication: Identifying and supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs: a rapid evidence review

In particular Language Link is highlighted as being in the set of tools reporting the best psychometric properties:
The Infant and Reception Language Link tools provide reliable and well-validated resources for identifying speech and language needs across a broad age range using modern psychometric methods

We’ll need to suggest a small age range correction – (Reception and Infant Language Link assessments together go from 4 to 8) but we’re very pleased to see our assessments listed in the above report. In particular because Reception Language Link has evolved this year into the even more robust “School Entry Assessment” which speeds up universal language screening whilst retaining the accuracy and depth our assessments are known for.