Current projects

Our current research projects include investigations into early support, learning and development, motor skills, child development and school education, and adolescence and adulthood.

Our current education projects include a wide range of education activities including books, topic sheets, training courses, videos and teaching materials.

• Research projects
  • Early support, learning and development
    • Longitudinal study of influences on early development
    • Attachment and behaviour
    • Early social communication
    • Problem solving in young children
    • The development and impact of reading skills
    • Effectiveness of responsive teaching
    • Parental concerns and experiences of support in the pre-school years
  • Motor skills and physical education
    • Learning to walk
    • Bike riding
  • Child development and school education
    • Speech production
    • The use of signing in primary schools
    • Improving working memory function for school-aged children
    • Factors influencing difficulties in reading comprehension
    • Reading instruction in schools
    • Maths instruction in schools
    • Social and behavioural skills and friendships among children with Down syndrome
    • The use of bi-focal glasses
    • Parental concerns and experiences about the selection of educational placements
    • School perceptions and experiences of educating children with Down syndrome
  • Adolescence and adulthood
    • Ambitions and priorities among children and teenagers with Down syndrome
    • Parental concerns and experiences about the provision of higher educational opportunities
    • Adolescence and the transition to young adulthood
  • Research and collaboration infrastructure and new technologies
    • Down Syndrome Records
    • Down Syndrome Databank

• Education projects
  • Publishing
    • Online publishing infrastructure
    • Down Syndrome Online
    • Down Syndrome Issues and Information
    • Down Syndrome Research and Practice
    • Down Syndrome Topics
    • Down Syndrome Abstracts
    • Down Syndrome Activities
    • See and Learn
    • Down Syndrome in Practice
    • Community online
    • Education resources online
    • Down Syndrome Archive
  • Conferences, seminars and training courses
    • Training courses and services
    • International conference on developmental issues
  • Advice and early intervention services
    • AdviceLine
    • Early Development Groups