My name is Marika (məɹikə) and I am a speech and language therapy (SLT) student here at the University of Manchester (UoM). I have just spent the summer of 2021 as an intern for Dr Kelly Burgoyne, a…
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I research how children develop their language, thinking, and movement skills. One of the things I'm particularly interested in is how children are different from each other. Of course, when I tell…
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Hi, my name is Laim Blything. I’ve recently returned to the UK after a 2 and a half year stint at University of Alberta in Canada to work with LuCiD as a postdoctoral researcher on the work package…
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This has not been a normal year. In England, three national lockdowns profoundly affected the usual schedules of children and their families, meaning children were not able to attend preschool or…
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What exactly is curiosity? As Susan Engel depicts curiosity in The hungry mind, “curiosity begins as a feeling – a stirring, or a sense of mental unrest”. The curious feeling could be triggered by…
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Last month we were fortunate enough to host a seminar with world-leading Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) researcher, Prof Laurence B Leonard. (You can watch this back here). He presented a…