Dr Charles Hulme - Recipient of the 2025 Samuel Torrey Orton Award
The International Dyslexia Association has honored Dr Charles Hulme with their highest award for his groundbreaking research linking language and reading.
Give every student the language skills to succeed
Without strong language skills, children struggle to read, learn, and form friendships.
With 1 in 14 students in the United States having a voice, speech, or language disorder, it’s more important than ever to identify and address language needs to ensure no child is left behind.
Rooted in world-class research from the University of Oxford, our language assessment and intervention tools bring proven strategies into the classroom so early years educators can create brighter futures for every student.
Oral language skills give every student the chance to succeed
Oral language is the foundation of student success. It’s key to reading, writing, communicating, and forming friendships.
Yet many children are facing language delays. Without strong oral language, students will struggle academically and socially – and risk being left behind.
The good news: early intervention is proven to improve long-term literacy outcomes.
This whitepaper explores the key research behind why oral language is central to reading and well-being, as well as strategies for assessing and promoting language development in early education.
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Why Language is at the Heart of Learning to Read
The Reading is Language Model proposed by OxEd founders Charles Hulme and Maggie Snowling champions that oral language skills are the foundation of literacy.
Oral Language Program
Our oral language program provides a comprehensive package of assessment, training, whole class instruction and targeted intervention, supporting language development in early childhood and elementary schools.
Assessments
Our assessments provide an accurate and reliable way to easily assess children, track the progress of students' skills, and identify those who would benefit from interventions or specialist support.
“The one thing I want to emphasize is how important early language screening and intervention is. I think it often gets overlooked when we're talking about literacy. And the more we have as a district delved in to looking at, language and the language component of literacy, we realized how much we were missing. It's really important that districts, especially with younger learners, start looking at language immediately. Because there are so many early gaps you can close that will support students continuing through their education.”
Hannah Scheiderer, School Psychologist
Livingston School District, MT
11,000 schools
using OxEd’s assessments and early language program
800,000 students
assessed using our assessments
30,000 teachers and teaching aides
trained in language fundamentals
Who are we?
OxEd is a University of Oxford spinout company launched to take the research of Professor Charles Hulme and his team through to practical application in schools. OxEd develops educational assessments and interventions which have been shown to improve educational outcomes for children.
OxEd is proud to be affiliated with the University of Oxford and Oxford University Innovation, which develops and finances companies in order to share the benefits of Oxford’s academic excellence, encourage local economic development and create new jobs in the region.