At the Leeds Child Development Unit we study how children learn to communicate. Visit our website and get involved!
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
19 Apr 2024
Excited to start recruiting to our @BICYCLE_Study investigating the development of kids born during Covid lockdowns. If you had a child Mar 23-Jun 23 2020 and live in England please consider joining our study. Scientific progress, fun games Amazon fire in return 😊🚲
🌟We are now looking for 4-year old children born during lockdown to take part in our study 🧸 🎉 click this link to take part or message us to find out more:
cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.c…
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
29 Nov 2023
Publication day!
Sustained benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) for young children’s development during COVID-19 doi.org/10.1177/1476718X2312…
with @SDDS_UK @ESRC @ShannonPKong @alexhendry @NathanArcher1 Michelle McGillion, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez @CeciZunigaM 1/
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
7 Nov 2023
📢Our new @ESRC project is hiring! Seeking an RA and RF with expertise in #language & #memory in children growing up during #covid19. Opportunity to join an ace collab team @ProfLHenry @botting_nikki @LaShaps1 @warwickpsych @BrookesBabyLab @OxExpPsy @Aston_IHN @AstonPsychology
3 Nov 2023
Looking for two bright, passionate #researchers to come and explore the effects of lockdown on #language and #memory for babies born in covid. Our new @UKRI_News @esrc funded project BICYCLE starts in January.
#SLPeeps #Psychologists #Postdoc
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
16 Jun 2023
📢Language/literacy researchers and practitioners: I'm seeking names/contacts of people working specifically on impacts of #covid on #language development in 0-7 year olds. Expanding my network in this area for a project, and trying not to overlook people I'm unaware of!
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
24 May 2023
📽️ NEW VIDEO! 'A Book at Bedtime' 📖
We all love a good #story. But what role do #books play in children's #language development? Find out with @NickyJDawson & @emljames 📚
With special thanks to @TheStoryMuseum
Watch the full version at: bit.ly/ABookAtBedtime 1/2
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
6 Apr 2023
The First 1000 Days Yorkshire is hiring! Two Research Fellow posts (fulltime to Feb 2026) on an interdisc project investigating how supporting early parenting can impact language and cog dev, healthy behaviours, and support for disabilities. Closes 8 May. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
23 Mar 2023
New @SDDS_UK paper showing link between caregiver sensitivity and kids' vocab during covid. Carer sensitivity stable throughout the evolving lockdowns.
Little paper with a big effort; thanks to our 100 families and all RAs for extensive videocoding bit.ly/3lEzD6D
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
31 Jan 2023
Thank you to Princess Catherine (Kate Middleton) for championing this nationally and launching with us here with @LeedsCC_News 👍
A fantastic resource to encourage everyone to play their part in early years & start the conversations!
centreforearlychildhood.org
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
24 Jan 2023
Shared Reading Guidance for Parents & Carers
leedsforlearning.co.uk/Artic…
Proud to be partnering with @Leeds_Learning @Child_Leeds @leedslibraries to promote a new guide for parents and carers on how to best support young children through shared reading.
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23 Jan 2023
The Communication Offer is a directory of services and resources to support speech, language and communication development in Leeds. @LCHNHSTrust leedslocaloffer.org.uk/#!/mo…
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
7 Dec 2022
New preprint: 'Children’s developing conversational and reading inference skills: a call for a collaborative approach', with the amazing @ProfKateCain @Cat_Davies @DrJennyG @drhollyjoseph @ludoserratrice and Margreet Vogelzang #xprag #primaryliteracy
osf.io/b6anj /
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
2 Dec 2022
New paper out on supporting #adjective learning in #DLD using #ShapeCoding. 2nd researcher-practitioner project from my @ESRC #newinvestigator grant. With @SusanEbbels @nicoll_hilary @kristensyrett @SarahWhiteSLT @CeciZunigaM #OpenAccess Summary🧵
doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12…
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
4 Nov 2022
New paper on #vocabulary development by/with/for language literacy researchers and practitioners. With @kristensyrett @CeciZunigaM @LucyTaylor70 Sam Wilkes #educationuk #teacheruk #teacherusa #teachertwitter #esrc #openaccess 🧵
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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5 Oct 2022
So much love for this amazing initiative 💜
We're really excited to tell you that our new Family Study Room is officially open! 👶
It's for students with children, so you can work while they play. It's located on floor 0 of the Burton. #UoYTips
Read our announcement here, and share far & wide!
york.ac.uk/library/news/2022…
ALT Ground floor room with low tables and chairs, a rug, bean bags, a paper dinosaur and other things for kids
ALT A large cardboard T-Rex ready to be coloured in
ALT A low sofa and children's books
ALT The book My First Nature
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
4 Oct 2022
New ICKLE animation summarising findings for parents and carers. Massive thanks to
@UniLeedsEngage
Find it here; youtu.be/molqOKU8aCE
@Cat_Davies @DrPJClarke @DrHannahNash @PeterHartPhD @ESRC @LeedsNews
@Education_Leeds @UoLSSI @UniversityLeeds @educationgovuk
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4 Oct 2022
Check out our research-to-practice piece in the current issue of @rcslt_bulletin describing how we worked with @HelloLeeds and @LCHNHSTrust to provide the evidence base behind their Top Ten Tips for Talking leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs… #SLTpeeps
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3 Feb 2022
Calling 9-11 year-olds and their grownups! Psychology @UniversityLeeds is recruiting to learn more about the relationship between sleep and reading.
1 Feb 2022
Would your child like to take part in an exciting psychological experiment? We are looking for children aged 9-11 to participate in our reading and sleep project. For more information, please email sleepandreading@leeds.ac.uk
#psychology #psychologicalresearch #academictwitter
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
27 Jan 2022
Did you become a new parent during the pandemic? If so, teams at @sheffielduni & @warwickuni would love to hear your story and how you have found becoming a parent during this unprecedented time. Make your voice heard. sites.google.com/sheffield.a…
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
30 Sep 2021
For the last day of #SciCommSeptember, here's a shoutout to the amazing baby labs and child development research groups all around the world! Tagging some below 👇🏼 Make sure to follow them for all things developmental science! 🎉
ALT On the left: A photo of a sleeping baby wearing comically large "nerd" glasses. Teal text on grey background: #SciCommSeptember Shoutout There are babylabs and research groups dedicated to early development all around the world! Many of them use twitter to share new publications, interesting findings and useful information.Shoutout to all the amazing developmental scientists out there!
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Leeds Child Lab retweeted
13 Sep 2021
As schools enter their second week of the new year, ICKLE findings highlight the extra support that Year 1 pupils and their schools need due to #COVID disruptions schoolsweek.co.uk/transition…
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