Resources Directory
Videos
Language Development Short Talks
Mini Interviews
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Watch our researchers answering key questions about language development and about LuCiD
Seminar Recordings
All of our recorded seminars can be viewed here.
Webinars
Early Years Interventions and Evaluation
- VIDEO: Evaluating interventions - this training video covers how interventions work, why it is important to evaluate interventions and describes a 'gold standard' kind of evaluation known as a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)
- VIDEO: The Importance of the Early Years - this presentation outlines why the early years are so important for children's development and their later outcomes. It explains how research can help and how you can access this research.
Newsletters
LuCiD has a quarterly newsletter to keep our partners, colleagues and interested people up to date. See our full catalogue of newsletters below:
August 2024, April 2024 , August 2023, March 2023, November 2022, August 2022, March 2022, November 2021, June 2021, March 2021, December 2020, April 2020, July 2019, November 2018, June 2018, January 2018, September 2017, April 2017, December 2016, August 2016, February 2016, June 2015
Magazine Articles
Nursery World Magazine
- All about contingent talk
- Up to speed
- Word for word
- A formal occasion
- Confused?
- Dog eats man
- My mistake
English & Media Centre eMagazine
The Conversation
- The science of baby babbling – and why it can take on accents
- Lockdown babies behind on communication milestones: to help toddlers’ language skills, just talk and listen
- From signing to ‘sensory’: can trendy baby classes really boost a child’s development?
- How we showed ‘sleeping on it’ really is the best way to solve a problem
- What is going on in your brain when you sleep?
- Watching TV can actually be good for toddlers
- What grammar gurus don't get about how we learn
- Talking to your babies could help them do better at school
Evidence Briefings
- How can parents influence their children's language development?
- How does shared book-reading help boost child language development in the early years?
- Myths and misconceptions about language development in multilingual children
- Social disadvantage and language delay
- The impact of baby sign on infants and their parents: A short evidence briefing for parents, early years practitioners and policy makers
Webchats
- Reading and language development
- How do children learn language?
- How do children learn words and how does their environment affect language learning?
- Baby gestures
Materials for SLTs
ESOL Stepping Stones
- Information about the ESOL Stepping Stones project
- Access the ESOL Stepping Stones resources
Outputs Database
- search our outputs database for research publications, abstracts and presentations