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Early Language Development: Needs, provision, and intervention for preschool children from socio- economically disadvantaged backgrounds A Report for the Education Endowment Foundation October 2017. Law, J. Charlton, J. Dockrell, J. Gascoigne, M. McKean, C. Theakston, A. Contact: James Law PhD. Professor of Speech and Language Science Newcastle University E: Early Language Development: Needs, provision and intervention for preschool children from socio-economically disadvantage backgrounds Law, Charlton, Dockrell, Gascoigne, McKean and Theakston Contents The project team ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ............ iv Executive summary ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ ........ vi Page | ii Glossary.

Early language development Early language development generally progresses through a series of distinct but overlapping stages and the majority of children follow similar patterns in a given language, albeit at different rates. Although language acquisition is a very robust process there is evidence that the rate at which children

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