Trust supports research at Oxford and York Universities
Following successful applications for ESRC CASE funding, the charity will be supporting two PhD students
supervised by world renowned researchers at Oxford and York
Universities.
New research into reading, language and attention skills
From October 2007, the charity will be supporting a new PhD student working
with
Professor Charles Hulme 
and his team at the
Department of Psychology, University of York. This
study will investigate aspects of the development of
reading and language skills in children with Down
syndrome.
The other doctoral studentship will be at the
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of
Oxford. This project will look at attention skills
in preschool children with Down syndrome, Williams
syndrome and fragile X syndrome. This work will be
supervised
Dr Gaia Scerif
at Oxford University, with additional supervision by
Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith of Birkbeck College, London and
Professor Kim Cornish of McGill Unversity, Canada
These partnerships are the result of two successful
applications for funding from the Economic and
Social Research Council's CASE programme to promote
collaboration between university researchers and
other organisations.
Other current research collaborations
The charity is also currently working with a range of
other research partners including:
-
Kim Bard
and her team in the Psychology Department, University of Portsmouth, who
are working on early social and emotional communication and
understanding.
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Peter Howell
and team at the Speech Research Team at University College
London on a study into speech and language development and stuttering in
children with Down syndrome.
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Louise Wood
from the Sport and Exercise Science Department at the University of
Portsmouth, who is evaluating the use of treadmill practice to help
young children with Down syndrome learn to walk.
Find out more
Find out more about the charity's research
activities...
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