My friends don’t really understand what I do in my job. I study how children learn language. Half my friends believe that I spend all day attaching electrodes to people’s heads to study their brains.
Seminars, News, Events & Blog - 2017

Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith present the next LuCiD seminar on Learning to perspective-take in conversation. The seminar will take place from 11.00-12.30 on Tuesday 7th March at the University of Liverpool…

Over the years, I have spent stints of time in remote parts of the world, studying how children learn language. Watching the ways in which babies and young children were looked after and learned to…

Share your experiences of SLCN support As part of Bercow: Ten Years On, a project designed to examine support for children and young people with SLCN in England, I CAN and the RCSLT have launched an…

Prof James Law will present the next LuCiD seminar on Child language as a life chances indicator. The seminar will take place from 11.00-12.30 on Tuesday 7th February at the University of Manchester…

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) has published a new report about the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reforms in England. The report outlines the findings…