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

博士项目直接应对这些重大挑战，为改善学习困难儿童的教育提供和机会建立经验证据基础，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绩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回顾；(B)分析原始的主要量化数据，以测试为什么儿童语言发展预测教育成就；以及(C)从研究利益相关者(如学生、家长)收集定性数据，以研究在英国学校广泛实施以语言为重点的教育干预措施的可行性。该项目将汇集言语与语言英国(Speechandlanguage.org.uk，一家慈善和第三部门组织)、黎明之家学校(Dawnhouse chool.org.uk，一家由言语与语言英国资助的为有语言和沟通困难的儿童开设的专业学校)，以及谢菲尔德大学语言学、心理学和教育科学等学科的研究人员(朱迪·克莱格教授、萨拉·斯宾塞博士)和约克大学(索菲·冯·斯图姆教授、奥马尔·托西布博士)。通过超越单一学科的参与，这个WRDTP协作性奖励项目将支持我测试‘协作式词汇教学’的有效性和可扩展性--这是一种由教师和言语语言治疗师(SLT)共同领导的新颖的全班教学方法，用于提高语言和交流困难儿童的数学和数学成绩。该项目有能力促进跨学科知识的发展，特别是在教育学和心理学方面。它更广泛的好处是有可能减轻教育成就低带来的一些负面的长期后果，教育成就低是儿童及其家庭的最大负担，但也会影响整个社会。它包括与项目合作伙伴英国演讲和语言(Speechandlanguage.org.uk，一个慈善和第三部门组织)，以及与黎明之家学校(Dawnhouse chool.org.uk，一所由英国演讲和语言学院资助的针对语言和沟通困难儿童的专业学校)，以及谢菲尔德大学语言学、心理学和教育学的研究人员(朱迪·克莱格教授，莎拉·斯宾塞博士)和约克大学(苏菲·冯·斯图姆教授，奥马尔·托塞布博士)的知识交流和共同研究成果。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实现对知识的重大贡献并产生影响，以提高语言和沟通困难儿童的算术和数学技能，这些儿童的教育成就较低的风险更高。制作和分享有效的干预措施，以改善弱势儿童的生活结果是该项目的合作伙伴演讲和语言英国的主要目标。这种干预措施通常是针对有学习困难的儿童，包括语言和沟通困难的儿童，但它们可能使所有儿童受益。因此，我们预计WRDTP协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.