Read our findings from a randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of the Story Starters volunteer-led book reading intervention in boosting children’s language development.
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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…
Einstein was famously very slow to talk, worrying his parents for years. However, according to the story their fears were eventually allayed when Einstein was presented with his new baby sister. “Yes,
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…
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…
I have just finished a six week, LuCiD summer internship at The University of Manchester. The project looked at category typicality and its role in how children with and without ASD store semantic…