The Heather van der Lely Foundation Trust is pleased to announce that research funding has been awarded to the following teams: University of Newcastle – Principal Investigator, Dr Cristina McKean ‘Testing the efficacy of Building Early Sentences Therapy and uncovering mechanisms for change: a theoretically informed language intervention for pre-school children with language disorder’ Abstract – Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) (http://www.buildingearlysentencestherapy.co.uk) is an intervention for pre-school children with severe language difficulties which aims to improve children’s use and understanding…