Child Language Research
The group conducts research on typical and atypical speech and language development in monolingual and bilingual children. Areas of focus include screening technologies, mechanisms of language development, assessment, characterisation and treatment of developmental speech and language disorders, and relationships between language and phonological awareness abilities and literacy. Our research focuses heavily on cross-linguistic study of language development and disorders.
Projects
- Dynamic Assessment of Novel Sentence Learning by Children of Varying Spoken Language Abilities
Project Leader(s): Nick Riches - Developing a replicable model of partnership working to improve the communication skills and academic attainment of children in an area of social deprivation
Project Leader(s): Helen Stringer - Understanding what matters most: exploring trajectories and transitions in children’s development and learning from the Foundation Stage to formal education.
Project Leader(s): Cristina McKean
Publications
- The Interaction between behaviour and Speech and Language Difficulties
- Childrens Language ability and Psychological development:
- Communication skills in a population of primary school aged children raised in an area of pronounced social disadvantage
- Childrens Language & Ability and literacy development
- Modelling developmental language difficulties from school entry into adulthood:
Staff
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Professor Gerard Docherty
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Dr Ghada Khattab
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Professor James Law
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Dr Carolyn Letts
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Dr Cristina McKean
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Carol Moxam
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Dr Nick Riches
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Dr Helen Stringer
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