April 2025 – Started following up with children again
We’ve started seeing children again for this years round of testing. We had a great day down at the Elizabeth Foundation catching with families.
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Language and Literacy conference in March 2025
We held a one-day research to practice conference on Language and Literacy in Deaf Children at Frank Barnes. We had a great turn-out with approximately 130 people – mainly teachers of the deaf and speech and language therapists working with deaf children. There were six research presentations followed by a practitioner-led panel discussion on the…
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March 2025
Due to overwhelming demand, the Language and Literacy in Deaf Children – Research to Practice Conference has now sold out on Eventbrite! Watch this space for updates about the event. We will be sharing some of our talks from the day on our website soon!
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February 2025
Exciting news! The Ladder Lab will be hosting a one-day conference in March called “Language and Literacy in Deaf Children – Research to Practice”. This is a free event for practitioners and teachers working with deaf children, and will feature talks from researchers from the Deafness Cognition and Language research centre (DCAL, UCL) and City…
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January 2025
Understanding Reading Success Update – Recruitment finished The research team for the Understanding Reading Success study have been busy this year recruiting and assessing children, and we are happy to announce that we have 355 children taking part in the study! (135 deaf and 220 hearing children). A huge THANK YOU to all the schools,…
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April 2024
We are thrilled to announce that the Ladder Lab team have been awarded major new research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for just over £1 million. This provides the funding for our exciting new study “Understanding Reading Success”. This is a three year project to investigate the language and cognitive factors…
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October 2023
Dr Fiona Kyle gave a keynote at the Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf (ITOD) conference in Australia in October 2023. The keynote was about explaining spoken language variation in DHH children: predictors and screeners. Dr Kyle discussed pre-implant predictors of post-implant language for deaf children with cochlear implants, and presented new data on the efficacy…
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August 2023
UPDATE for the Preschool Language and Literacy Project It has been a very busy year for the Preschool Language and Literacy Project. This year saw our 4th year of recruitment for the study, and there are now over 200 deaf and hearing children involved in the project – a big thank you from the team…
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March 2022
UPDATE for the Preschool Language and Literacy Project Now recruiting again! We’re looking for nurseries and deaf and hearing children aged 3-4 years We are delighted to announce that we will be resuming recruitment and data collection in schools and nurseries for our longitudinal Preschool Language and Literacy Project. We will be contacting teachers and parents of children already…
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