I could not have had a better start into the new year! Thanks to the LuCiD travel grant and Prof. Caroline Rowland, I had the pleasure to visit the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) of…
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My PhD has brought with it many exciting new experiences, but I never expected to find myself standing in Duke University in North Carolina, about to start an academic presentation, and instead having…
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In September 2019, I had the pleasure to spend a week at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain as a visiting researcher. It was a productive and an…
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Part of LuCiD’s work involves the development and evaluation of practical interventions that aim to support children’s language skills. Children with Down syndrome have well-established language…
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Here at LuCiD we are interested in how children learn language. One thing that is fascinating about humans is that a baby can learn any language. A baby being raised around English will learn English…
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In April 2019, I had the amazing opportunity to visit Izmir, Turkey for five weeks to conduct a cross-linguistic study on children’s language, source-monitoring, and perspective-taking abilities all…