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Seminars, News, Events & Blog - Practitioners
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Wendy Lee, (Independent Consultant, SLT and former Professional Director of the Communications Trust), will present the next LuCiD seminar on the trials and tribulations of applying research to…
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Read our latest article for Nursery World Magazine, 'Dog eats man' by Prof Elena Lieven, which discusses differences and similarities in child-rearing and language learning practice across the world.
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LuCiD researcher, Amy Bidgood, is running a 5-week accredited course in Liverpool, 'How do children learn language?'. The course covers various aspects of language acquisition, including how babies…
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In our third Nursery World Article Anna Theakston discusses the 'formal' language children are exposed to as they enter Reception and how to support children as they make this transition.
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Our second article in a series on language and communication written by LuCiD researchers for Nursery World Magazine has been published. The article, Word for word, written by Dr Rebecca Frost, Dr…