This has not been a normal year. In England, three national lockdowns profoundly affected the usual schedules of children and their families, meaning children were not able to attend preschool or…
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What exactly is curiosity? As Susan Engel depicts curiosity in The hungry mind, “curiosity begins as a feeling – a stirring, or a sense of mental unrest”. The curious feeling could be triggered by…
Last month we were fortunate enough to host a seminar with world-leading Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) researcher, Prof Laurence B Leonard. (You can watch this back here). He presented a…
Late talking children, or ‘late talkers’, are children aged between 18-30 months old who speak far fewer words than 90% of children of the same age, without any known developmental or sensory…
We all know that babies are wrigglers! Their motor skills develop rapidly, from the early arm-waving and leg-kicking researchers call “motor babbling”, to reaching, pointing, and picking up and…
Have you ever caught yourself saying long burbly streams of words to babies? You are not alone. A lot of what infants hear is “who’s a lovely baby yes you are now where’s teddy gone oh look here is…