July 2026 – July is conference month!
Several of our team have been presenting our research findings at academic conferences in July. Dr Fiona Kyle gave a spoken conference presentation at the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading (SSSR) 2026 conference in Rotterdam in July 2026. She presented on Morphological Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Deaf and Hearing Children. Read the…
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July 2026 – UCL 2026 Graduations
We were thrilled to celebrate with two of our fabulous Ladder Lab graduates at the recent UCL MSc graduation ceremonies.
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April 2026 – Our 2026 testing begins
We kicked off our 2026 round of assessments with seeing some of our long-standing participants and their families down at the Elizabeth Foundation. It is the final assessment point for some of our children who we have been seeing yearly since they were 3 years old! We’re looking forward to seeing all participating children again!
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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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