Resources directory

Videos

• Language Development Short Talks
• Our researchers answer key questions about language development and about LuCiD
• All of our recorded seminars can be viewed on our YouTube channel.

Webinars

Early years interventions and evaluation

Video: Evaluating interventions – This training video covers how interventions work, why it is important to evaluate interventions and describes a ‘gold standard’ kind of evaluation known as a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT).

Video: The Importance of the Early Years – This presentation outlines why the early years are so important for children’s development and their later outcomes. It explains how research can help and how you can access this research.

Newsletters

LuCiD has a quarterly newsletter to keep our partners, colleagues and interested people up to date. See our full catalogue of newsletters.

Magazine articles

The Conversation

• The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
• Lockdown babies behind on communication milestones: to help toddlers’ language skills, just talk and listen
• From signing to ‘sensory’: can trendy baby classes really boost a child’s development?
• How we showed ‘sleeping on it’ really is the best way to solve a problem
• What is going on in your brain when you sleep?
• Watching TV can actually be good for toddlers
• What grammar gurus don’t get about how we learn
• Talking to your babies could help them do better at school

Evidence briefings

• View and download our evidence briefings

Webchats

• Reading and language development
• How do children learn language?
• How do children learn words and how does their environment affect language learning?
• Baby gestures

ESOL Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones was a five-year LuCiD-led knowledge exchange project that developed and delivered a tailored ESOL course for non-English speaking mothers and their babies, aiming to improve language skills, confidence, and access to services, with LuCiD designing the programme and supporting its implementation across diverse UK settings.

Outputs database

Search our outputs database for research publications, abstracts and presentations.