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.
A research-led early elementary language program that is proven to improve educational outcomes.
Turning research evidence into practical tools through world-class assessments, targeted intervention and whole class enrichment to improve educational outcomes for children worldwide and ensure no child is left behind.
Based on extensive University of Oxford research into children’s educational development.
Oral Language: An Investment in Student Success
This whitepaper explores the key research behind the critical role of oral language to reading and well-being, as well as strategies for assessing and promoting language development in early education.
By proactively identifying and addressing language difficulties, we equip students with the tools they need to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
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Uncovering the Hidden Foundation: Identifying Oral Language Deficits
Join this online session by our partners RGR to explore how oral language shapes student success with a special emphasis on oral language screening in early grades to identify students at risk early.
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 & Assessment (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.