In recent years, practitioners in the early years have worked hard to support children’s early communication. This is important work. One of the most powerful things we can do to help a child’s development is help them to become a better communicator. Communication underpins children’s thinking and learning. Being a good communicator enables you to make friends and play with others.
Despite all this positive work, we need to do more in the early years. If we use the Early Learning Goals as our measure, we can see that around 86 per cent of children achieve the goals in communication.
Eighty-six per cent is a high proportion. But it is important to remember that around 14 per cent of children leave the EYFS without being able to communicate as well as we might hope. That is about 90,000 children every year – a huge number of young children.
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