Cognitive Development Lab’s podcast – episode 3
In today’s podcast Dr Gemma Taylor, who runs our lab, talks to Dr Amy Bidgood, a lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the University of Salford. Amy is an expert in child language development and was telling us about how children learn their first words and how best to support their language development.
Here are the links for the research that Amy discussed today:
Does speed of processing or vocabulary size predict later language growth in toddlers?
Here’s an accompanying blog post for the paper http://lucid.ac.uk/news-events-blog/blogs/does-speed-of-processing-or-vocabulary-size-predict-later-language-growth-in-toddlers/
Communication in nature by Cameron-Faulkner et al., 2018
Contingent talk intervention by McGillion et al. 2017
The websites Amy mentioned are:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
https://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/
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