UEA: HOW CHILDREN LEARN WORDS

An online talk from the University Of East Anglia London Lecture Series. These talks are open to anyone and promoted to you by Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe.

HOW CHILDREN LEARN WORDS: DIFFERENCES & COMMON PROCESSES

Prof Larissa Samuelson (School of Psychology)

Infants and toddlers vary widely in their rate of early word learning – variation that is predictive of later language development and school success.

In this lecture, Prof Larissa Samuelson will discuss the difficulties children face when learning even a single concrete noun, and the work being done in UEA’s Developmental Dynamics Laboratory to understand individual children’s unique word learning pathways – work with the goal of informing interventions for children struggling to learn words.