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Child Language Research Group

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27 August 2024

UC's Child Language Research Group explores children's speech and language development and related abilities. We cover a broad range of topics in child speech and language and focus on supporting children with difficulties to achieve optimal outcomes. Learn more about our Child Language Research Group.

HOW TO APPLY

We provide research training to postgraduate students at the Master's and PhD levels and to undergraduate students who are in their final year of study.

Our home academic department is the School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing and we are affiliated with the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour (NZILBB), Child Well-being InstituteNew Zealand Speech Therapy Association (NZSTA) and International Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC).

About Us

We have a fully equipped child development facility with participant parking, wheel-chair / pram access, kitchen facilities, toilet, and baby changing area. We have one-way mirrors, discreet video cameras, and a computerized direct observation data capture-analysis system.

  • Morphological knowledge in D/deaf and hard of hearing children
  • Dynamic assessment for multilingual children
  • Deaf or hard of hearing people’s perspectives on speech language therapy
  • Predicting school-age speech outcomes in late talking and typically developing preschool children
  • Exploring the perception of autism in the Asian community in Aotearoa
  • Cultural perceptions of language development in a New Zealand sample of parents of 54 month old children
  • Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi: Using fundamental scientific knowledge to develop better support strategies for children with autism spectrum disorders

 

Past research
  • New Zealand teacher experiences in implementing a shift to structured literacy reading instruction
  • The effectiveness and social validity of LEGO-based therapy with autistic female children
  • What do Māori Speech-Language Therapists believe is important in their own practice of tīkanga working with tamariki and their whānau Māori for communication support?
  • New Zealand children's fluency behaviours aged 2 to 3.5 years
  • The efficacy of a computer based reading program for increasing the reading comprehension skills of students with autism
  • Language and developmental outcomes of 9 year-old children who were born to mothers in methadone maintenance treatment during pregnancy
  • Development of a psychometrically validated child-directed speech measure
  • New Zealand parents / caregivers of Deaf and hard of hearing children’s knowledge and beliefs about child language development
  • Early childhood teachers’ contribution to child language development in NZ: What do they know, what do they do, and does it differ depending on the socioeconomic status of the children?
  • New Zealand parent/caregiver perceptions of identification children’s language and literacy difficulties
  • New Zealand parents’ awareness, use and satisfaction of supports available for children with language and literacy difficulties
  • New Zealand parent / caregiver perspective on support services for Deaf and hard of hearing children
  • Speech and self regulation outcomes for children with speech sound disorder following speech language assistant delivered intervention
  • An intervention programme for 3;0 to 4;0-year-old children with co-occurring speech and language disorders
  • New Zealand parents / caregivers’ knowledge and beliefs about child language development
  • Speech language pathologists' practices of parent involvement in children's speech and language intervention funded by the National Disability Insurance Scheme
  • Predicting reading disorders in a clinical sample of children with language disorder
  • A pilot study of the effects of the Way-to-Play training programme in supporting communication and social engagement of parents and their children with autism
  • Predicting child language outcomes using child responses in parent child interaction between 2-4 years 
  • Supporting early childhood teachers to facilitate children's emergent literacy and oral language development
  • Exploring early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices in emergent literacy: Does practice vary by the socioeconomic status of the children?
  • Multilingual practice with children with speech and language disorders in New Zealand
  • The effectiveness of video self-modelling with children with autism in the home environment
  • Teacher and student experiences of remote microphone systems in primary school classrooms
  • The efficacy of computer-assisted reading comprehension intervention for children with autism

YearFunding agencyProject
2011-2014Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New ZealandLearning to Talk UOC-1003
(Thomas Klee, Stephanie Stokes and Catherine Moran)
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Physical address 

School of Psychology Speech and Hearing
Psychology/Sociology Building Room 162A
University of Canterbury
Ilam, Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

Postal address

The Child Language Research Group 
School of Psychology Speech and Hearing
Private Bag 4800
University of Canterbury
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

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