Saturday 8th June 2024
Language Disorders in Children Conference 2024
The Henry Wellcome Auditorium, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
Introduction by
Dr Hilary Gardner
The presentations below summarise some of the data and findings from our 5 funded projects as presented in June this year (2024). For more details about the whole projects please see the abstracts listed under 'Funded Research' which detail how the projects were envisaged at the outset.
Please also refer to the Principal Investigator's own University page for updates on resulting Publications and some of the training programmes which are ongoing with schools, professionals and parents. The conference programme details Posters presented on the day including our 2 funded PhDs and an exciting government back screening pilot in Wales.
Dr Fiona Kyle
University College London – Principal Investigator, Prof Fiona Kyle
‘Using the GAPS to identify pre-school deaf children at risk of later literacy difficulties’.
For more information about the abstract and studies, please click here.
Dr Helen Spicer Cain
City, University of London – Principal Investigator, Dr Helen Spicer-Cain
‘Very early predictors of grammatical, phonological and school readiness skills at school age in siblings of children with communication disorders’.
For more information about the abstract and studies, please click here.
Prof Julie Dockrell
University College London – Principal Investigator, Professor Julie Dockrell
‘Language-learning needs on school entry: profiling phonology, morphology and narrative’.
For more information about the abstract and studies, please click here.
Prof Cristina McKean
University of Oxford – Department of Education, Prof Cristina McKean
‘Testing the efficacy of Building Early Sentences Therapy and uncovering mechanisms for change: a theoretically informed language intervention for pre-school children with language disorder’.
For more information about the abstract and studies, please click here.
Dr Gillian West
University of Oxford – Co-Investigator Dr Gill West with Prof C Hulme
‘ATLAS and GAPS Assessment Apps: development and standardisation’.
For more information about the abstract and studies, please click here.
Panel Discussion
The panelists discuss the challenges and opportunities that the pandemic has presented for children's language development, as well as the implications for research and practice. They also discuss the importance of collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to ensure that children's language needs are met.