This summer (July-August 2019), I had the fantastic opportunity to spend three weeks at the Computational Cognition and Learning Laboratory, Indiana University, working with Prof. Chen Yu. This was…
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Every year, governments, charities and local authorities spend millions of pounds on training, or exhorting, teachers and parents to talk to children. Even President Obama has got in on the act.
One of the most important milestones for babies is the ability to engage in joint attention – the shared focus of two individuals on an object. However, it is unclear how babies develop this skill. An…
Hungry Little Minds is the new Department for Education campaign that encourages parents and carers to adopt positive activities and behaviours to boost children’s communication, language and literacy…
The Language 0-5 Project is almost at an end, and it is incredible how quickly the time has flown! Launched in 2014, we took on the ambitious task of following the language journeys of 80 children…
Our fifth annual International Language and Communicative Development Conference will take place in Manchester on Wednesday 12th - Thursday 13th June 2019. This year's conference will centre around…