RILL (research on the instruction of literacy with language) is a short, evidence-based language and literacy programme for Key Stage 2 children learning one-to-one or in small groups. Launched by Prof. Manon Wyn Jones in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting national school closures, RILL is delivered digitally - either remotely in the child's home, or in the classroom. To date, over 1000 children have taken part in the programme across two large-scale randomised controlled trials, in both English (90 schools, 200 teachers trained) and Welsh (93 schools, 200 teachers trained). The RILL team comprises researchers at the Miles Dyslexia Centre, Bangor University, Leeds Trinity University, and the University of Oxford. The team's mission is to ensure that children across the UK - particularly those who struggle to read - receive the best possible targeted intervention and regain and improve their literacy and language skills. You can find out more about the RILL project here.

The Bangor University Welsh-English bilingual communicative development inventory (BU WEB-CDI) is a questionnaire that caregivers can fill in to tell us about a child’s language and communicative development. Led By Prof. Debbie Mills, the Bangor University WEB-CDI was developed expressly to meet a local need for suitable early years bilingual language assessment tools, and in response to a number of Welsh Government agendas (e.g., Talk with me: Speech language and communication delivery plan). A recent report commissioned by the Welsh Government identified the WEB-CDI as one of only two tools currently suitable for screening early language development in Welsh-English speaking children. The second tool identified, the UK Bilingual Toddlers Assessment Tool (UKBTAT), uses Bangor University WEB-CDI data. You can find out more about the BU WEB-CDI here.