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Developmental Science

Our Research

• Normal and Abnormal Visual Brain Development: (sensory/perceptual/cognitive/spatial vision including Visual Attention) Normal infants and children, Williams Syndrome/Downs Syndrome/perinatal brain disorders/visual disorders /very Premature/low birth weight - Visual Development Unit
  Funded: Medical Research Council, ESRC, Williams Syndrome Foundation Researchers:Jan Atkinson, Oliver Braddick (UCL Visiting Professor from Oxford), John Wattam-Bell.
  
  
• Development of Language and Mathematical Skills
  Funded: Nuffield Foundation
  Researchers: Chris Donlan, Elizabeth Newton
• Psycholinguistic Assessment and Intervention for Deaf Children: 2003-2008. Researchers: Rachel Rees

• Development of the child's understanding of causality
  Researcher: Anne Schlottmann
  
  
• Evaluation of a novel technique for assessing speech discrimination in children
  Researchers: Caroline Newton, Shula Chiat, Michael Clarke and Rachel Rees
  
  
• Development of social communication skills, perception and attentional abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder Researchers: John Swettenham, Elizabeth Milne, Anna Remington
• Perception, language and communication in Deaf Children Funded: ESRC. Researchers: Tanya Denmark and John Swettenham
• Language development in Deaf Children Funded: British Academy
  Researchers: Merle Mahon, Juliette Corrin, and Theo Marinis

• Outcomes for Children with Complex Needs assessed for Communication Aids: A pilot study
  Funded: BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency
  Researchers: Michael Clarke, Caroline Newton, K.V. Petrides, Andrew Lysley, Katie Price
  
• Auditory processing and language in children with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss
  Funded by ESRC
  Researcher: Lorna Halliday.

• Functional gaze control in young children with cerebral palsy
  Researcher: Michael Clarke.