Improving maths achievement in children with speech, language, and communication needs through 'collaborative vocabulary teaching'

博士项目通过建立经验证据基础来直接解决这些重大挑战，以改善教育提供和学习困难儿童的获得，这是改善他们认知和社会情感发展的关键。因此，我将（a）对旨在提高儿童教育成就的以语言为重点的干预措施的有效性研究进行系统的文献综述;（B）分析原始的主要定量数据，以测试为什么儿童语言发展预测教育成就;（c）从研究利益相关者（例如，（c）与学生、家长等进行合作，研究在英国各学校广泛实施以语言为重点的教育干预措施的可行性。该项目将汇集Speech and Language UK（speechandlanguage.org.uk，一家慈善和第三部门组织），Dawn House School（dawnhouseschool.org.uk，一所由Speech and Language UK资助的语言和沟通困难儿童的专业学校），以及谢菲尔德大学（Judy Clegg教授，Sarah Spencer博士）和约克大学（Sophie von斯图姆教授，Umar Toseeb博士）的跨学科研究人员，包括语言学，心理学和教育科学。通过超越单一学科的参与，这个WRDTP合作奖项目将支持我测试“协作词汇教学”的有效性和可扩展性-一种由教师和言语语言治疗师（SLT）共同领导的新型全班方法-用于提高语言和沟通困难儿童的算术和数学成绩。这个项目有能力促进跨学科的知识，特别是在教育科学和心理学方面。其更广泛的好处是有可能减轻教育成就低所造成的一些负面的长期后果，这些后果对个别儿童及其家庭来说是最大的负担，但也影响到整个社会。它涉及与项目合作伙伴Speech and Language UK（speechandlanguage.org.uk，一个慈善和第三部门组织）以及Dawn House School（dawnhouseschool.org.uk，一所由Speech and Language UK资助的语言和沟通困难儿童的专业学校）以及来自谢菲尔德大学（Judy Clegg教授，Sarah Spencer博士）和约克大学（Sophie von斯图姆教授，Umar Toseeb博士）的语言学，心理学和教育学研究人员进行知识交流和共同制作研究。该项目将通过证明一种新颖的全班教学方法的有效性和可扩展性来提高有语言和沟通困难的儿童的算术和数学技能，从而对知识做出重大贡献，并产生影响，这些儿童的教育成就低的风险增加。制定和分享有效干预措施，改善弱势儿童的生活成果，是该项目的合作伙伴英国言语和语言的主要目标。这种干预措施往往是针对有学习困难的儿童，包括语言和沟通困难的儿童，但它们可能会使所有儿童受益。因此，我们预计这项WRDTP合作奖项目将在学校教育环境中产生广泛的影响。

The PhD project's addresses these grand challenges directly by building an empirical evidence base for improving education provision and access for children with learning difficulties, which is key to ameliorating their cognitive and social-emotional development. Therefore, I will (a) conduct systematic literature reviews of effectiveness studies of language-focused interventions that seek to improve children's educational achievement; (b) analyse original, primary quantitative data to test why child language development predicts educational achievement; and (c) collect qualitative data from research stakeholders (e.g., pupils, parents) to study the feasibility of broadly implementing language-focused education interventions across schools in the UK. The project will bring together Speech and Language UK (speechandlanguage.org.uk, a charity and third sector organisation), Dawn House School (dawnhouseschool.org.uk, a specialist school for children with language and communication difficulties that is funded by Speech and Language UK), and researchers across disciplines including linguistics, psychology, and education science at the Universities of Sheffield (Prof Judy Clegg, Dr Sarah Spencer) and York (Prof Sophie von Stumm, Dr Umar Toseeb). By engaging beyond a single academic discipline, this WRDTP Collaborative Award Project will support me in testing the effectiveness and scalability of 'collaborative vocabulary teaching' - a novel, whole class approach led jointly by teachers and Speech Language Therapists (SLTs) - for improving numeracy and mathematics achievement in children with language and communication difficulties.This Project has the capacity to advance knowledge across disciplines, especially in education science and psychology. Its wider benefits are the potential of mitigating some of the negative, long-tern consequences that stem from low educational achievement, whose greatest burden is for individual children and their families but that also affect society at large. It involves knowledge exchange and co-production of research with the project partner Speech and Language UK, (speechandlanguage.org.uk, a charity and third sector organisation), as well as with Dawn House School (dawnhouseschool.org.uk, a specialist school for children with language and communication difficulties that is funded by Speech and Language UK), and researchers from linguistics, psychology, and education at the Universities of Sheffield (Prof Judy Clegg, Dr Sarah Spencer) and York (Prof Sophie von Stumm, Dr Umar Toseeb). This project will achieve a significant contribution to knowledge and create impact by evidencing the effectiveness and scalability of a novel, whole class teaching approach to improve numeracy and maths skills in children with language and communication difficulties, who are at increased risk for low educational achievement. Producing and sharing effective interventions that improve vulnerable children's life outcomes is the principal aim of this project's partner Speech and Language UK. Such interventions are often developed to target children with learning difficulties, including language and communication difficulties, but they are likely to benefit all children. We therefore anticipate that this WRDTP Collaborative Award Project will achieve broad impact in school education settings.