On language development and longitudinal research, with Courtenay Norbury
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English - February 19, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBScience psychology research children development science mental health learning cognition disability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Professor Courtenay Norbury is a psychologist and speech-language therapist at UCL who specialises in language, cognition, and social interaction across a range of neurodevelopmental conditions.
You can read more about Courtenay's work at her lab website here and follow her on twitter here.
During this podcast she chats to Sue about SCALES, a 10-year longitudinal study that has been tracking the development of a large cohort of young children from school entry to Year 9.
The following is one paper from the study discussed in the podcast:
Norbury, C. F., Vamvakas, G., Gooch, D., Baird, G., Charman, T., Simonoff, E., & Pickles, A. (2017). Language growth in children with heterogeneous language disorders: a population study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(10), 1092-1105.
Many thanks to Naomi Meiksin for editing the transcript for this episode.