Reading & Language
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Virtual network of international researchers in reading and language
Interface of Psychology and Education
Award winners
Prof. Maggie Snowling
Our research aims to understand the causes of children’s learning difficulties and to develop interventions to ameliorate them. A primary focus is dyslexia and the impact of oral language difficulties on educational attainments.
We focus on the interface between spoken and written language development and aims to understand both the typical and atypical development of reading. Current projects address three questions:
(i) The development of children at high risk of dyslexia (either because they have an affected parent or because they have specific language impairment) from age 3 ½ to 9 years. The primary questions concern the cognitive risk factors observed in the families of these children and their literacy outcomes.
(ii) The effects of interventions to promote oral language skills in preschool and early years and reading skills in older children.
(iii) The development of literacy in Spanish-speaking children in Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile and more generally in developing countries.
See a recent blog for the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health for a general overview of our research issues.
Our team
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Maggie Snowling
Emeritus Research Fellow in Psychology
Wellcome Language and Reading Project
Background
Led by Professor Maggie Snowling, Professor Charles Hulme and Dr Emma Hayiou-Thomas this six-year longitudinal study from 2007, funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigated the nature of the developmental relationships between dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI).
Findings
Summary of the key findings from the project
Research implications
Implications for dyslexia and for language learning impairments
Research staff
Wellcome Language and Reading Project team
Quote about the Research Group
Jean Gross CBE
'A group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of how children learn to read, and ... how to help those who can't read well'.
Jean Gross CBE, founder of the Every Child a Reader initiative and former government Communication Champion for children