We're still looking for more deaf children to join our groundbreaking research about what makes a good reader in key stage 2. Is your deaf child about to start year 4 or year 5? Please join our study - find out more at bit.ly/46I7crq BATOD Kate Rowley Dr Fiona Kyle

We have had a wonderful group of young researchers today, who have been helping the team from Ladder Lab (Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab) to take part in a follow-up data collection. #TheElizabethFoundation #YoungResearchers Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab Dr Fiona Kyle DCAL

Had another fabulous day catching up with children who have been taking part in our longitudinal research study - #Preschool #LanguageLiteracy over the past four years. Lovely to see the progress they're making in reading 💪! Prof Ros Herman Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab DCAL BATOD NDCS

Very proud of our Ladder Lab students who have graduated this week with BSc and MSci degrees in #psychology from UCL Psych & Lang Sci ! We have loved supervising you over the last year in UCL Language & Cognition and DCAL. Congratulations and all the best for the future! Dr Fiona Kyle

Come and do a PhD or MSc with our team in the Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab at DCAL and UCL Language & Cognition We're currently running 2 big longitudinal studies of #language #reading development in children (deaf and hearing). We'll support your funding application! Contact me or register below:

📢 Come and join us for a FREE research to practice conference for practitioners and teachers working with deaf children - we'll present the latest research findings on Language & Literacy Development - Sat 8th March 2025 at Frank Barnes School. Register: bit.ly/3WNd7I5

Wow - our event sold out in 48 hours! All 120 original places gone! 🎉🎉 We've managed to add more spaces but don't miss out as they are going fast... It's going to be a wonderful event #deaf #TOD #teachers #Language #Literacy BATOD #SLPeeps

Today is the day! Our sold out practitioner event at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children School. We'll discuss our latest research findings with deaf children & think about implications for practice Dr Fiona Kyle Prof Ros Herman Kathryn Mason Kate Rowley Patrick Mairead MacSweeney BATOD DCAL

Another fantastic couple of days down at the Elizabeth Foundation seeing the language and reading progress made by some of the 🌟🌟 #YoungResearchers taking part in our Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab Preschool project at DCAL- if only all our data collection could be this much fun 🥳 Prof Ros Herman

Two very proud supervisors yesterday after Mario Bustos-Rubilar Mario Bustos-Rubilar had his UCL graduation ceremony for his PhD. He is going from strength to strength with his work with the World Health Organization (WHO) - congratulations again Dr Bustos-Rubilar, with Merle Mahon UCL Language & Cognition Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab

Presenting the first stage of our Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Deafness project - what a great experience! @ICED_2025 DCAL