Author: Rhona Stainthorp

Naomi Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Winchester. She has previously taught in inner city, ethnically diverse primary schools for eighteen years. Her interest in the NLS grew from the combined experience of piloting the strategy in her own school and from her academic interest in children”s early literacy development. Rhona Stainthorp is Director of the Language and Literacy Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London. She has been involved in the professional training of teachers and speech and language therapists for the last 30 years.