Katie Whiteside has now completed writing her PhD thesis “Language and Cognitive Development Over the Early School Years in Children Learning English as an Additional Language”. Well done Katie, we’re all very proud of you!
After 3 years of hard work, Charlotte has now finished writing her thesis “Using gesture to support language”. Well done Charlotte!
The LiLaC lab celebrating in style! Grateful for such a fantastic team.
Professor Courtenay Norbury was invited to talk about SCALES at the House of Commons as part of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Speech and Language Difficulties. Pictured is Courtenay discussing the SCALES project with Lord Ramsbotham in House of Commons. Great discussions! For more information click here.
Six years ago now I got a generous grant from the Wellcome Trust to start the SCALES project. I have been guided and supported by a dream team of collaborators: Gillian Baird, Tony Charman, Andrew Pickles and Emily Simonoff who have ensured I didn’t make too many stupid mistakes and from whom I’ve learned an […]
This photo was taken on my daughter’s first day of school. She is bursting with pride and excitement– she just couldn’t wait to get to big school! She has also just turned four. She looks so small to me now- her book bag is almost as big as she is! Although I’d heard that summer […]
Earlier in the academic year I was asked to give a seminar to our graduate students and early career staff on the topic of ‘work-life balance.’ When I told my lab this, they all laughed, confirming my own mystification as to why I was chosen to do this. Having been asked to speak on this […]
Stage 2 is now well under way, in the first month of testing we’ve got complete datasets on about 50 children (or 10% of our target sample). Once again, schools in Surrey are demonstrating just how fabulous they are. They are doing a stellar job of getting consent forms returned from families and have welcomed […]
Every Friday I collapse in an exhausted heap and think ‘that was surely the busiest week of SCALES yet.’ And then the following week seems even more insanely hectic. Which is part of the reason there has been such a hiatus in the blog – we’ve had an eventful few weeks! The screening phase of […]
Well Stage 1 of SCALES has now closed. With the help of 194 schools and 243 fabulous teachers, we have screening data for 7,674 children or ~70% of all of the children that started school in Surrey last September! We have a very short period of time to select from this dataset the 500 children […]