In September 2019, I had the pleasure to spend a week at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain as a visiting researcher. It was a productive and an…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog
Prof Maggie Snowling (University of Oxford) will give the next LuCiD seminar on Tuesday 4th February, 11-12.30 at the University of Manchester. She will share her research on Risk factors for poor…
Megan Dixon will give the next LuCiD seminar on Tuesday 14th January, 11-12.30 at the University of Manchester. Megan is a Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation and was Director of…
After finishing my PhD in the United States, I moved to Italy to do research studying infant language acquisition. This meant that I had to learn some Italian! One of the first things we learned in…
Read our findings from a randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of the Story Starters volunteer-led book reading intervention in boosting children’s language development.
Part of LuCiD’s work involves the development and evaluation of practical interventions that aim to support children’s language skills. Children with Down syndrome have well-established language…