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…
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…
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…
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…
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…