I visited my two-year-old niece over the Easter weekend. Before I’d had a chance to take my coat off, she came running over to me with her Oh No, George book under her arm, and asked me to read it…
Seminars, News, Events & Blog - April 2017
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Dr Liz Wonnacott (University College London) will present the next LuCiD seminar on Experimental studies of language learning in children. The seminar will take place from 11.00-12.30 on Tuesday 2nd…
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New research led by The University of Manchester Speech and Language Therapy group aims to help children with ‘hidden’ speech and language problems. Children with social communication disorder (SCD)…
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LuCiD's Directors are amongst a group of organisations and individuals committed to supporting children develop their speech, language and communication, who last week submitted an open letter to the…
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Dr Rebecca Frost (PI) has been awarded a Language Learning Early Career Research Grant ($9998) for her project entitled “Practice shapes language processing", which she will work on with her…
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Last week, I attended the final seminar in the Born Talking series. These events have been funded by the ESRC to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy-makers interested in using birth…