In her latest blog post for Cambridge Extra, Dr Katie Alcock describes her research on child language development in Kenya. Language acquisition research in low-income countries is relatively sparse…
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Prof Padraic Monaghan will lead a free online training session on how children learn words and how to best support the early stages of language acquisition as part of Pearson's #SLTLearn. The webinar
In order to understand a language, we need to learn to spot the individual words it contains, and we need to figure out whether these words are following any particular sets of rules. This is…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and Rain Man both tell the story of people with certain kinds of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who nevertheless have some remarkable spared…
At first sight, the issue of what label we use to describe language learning difficulties seems a trivial one. But in her blog, Prof Caroline Rowland explains why it's so important to be consistent...
Dr Teodora Gliga will present the next LuCiD seminar on understanding word learning difficulties in autism. The seminar will take place from 11.00-12.30 on Tuesday 2nd February at the Lancaster…