Check out our new paper on attention in very young children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

We found that infants/toddlers with Down syndrome are relatively slow at disengaging attention, while infants/toddlers with Williams syndrome appear to be slow at engagin...

Check out our new paper on bilingual babies. 

The story was picked up by 114 international and national news outlets (including BBC Science Focus Magazine, The Daily Mail, and ScienceDaily) and 6 radio stations (including BBC World Service, LBC News, and talkRADIO).

The...

Check out our new paper on sleep in very young children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Our study shows that Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and Williams syndrome are all linked to sleep disruption in infants and toddlers, and that sleep plays a crucial role...

Dean presenting our work on early predictors of developmental outcomes in Williams syndrome (at the Williams Syndrome Researchers Meeting in Durham, UK) and the effects of bilingualism on cognitive development (at the keynote symposium on bilingualism, development, and...

Meet our new Junior Scientist, Maia! She and her brother are our university's first fNIRS participants.

fNIRS is a completely harmless technique that uses near infrared light. From measuring how the light is absorbed and scattered while the Junior Scientists are doing t...

who was promoted to Senior Lecturer!

Today we've seen our 100th baby scientist, Yaseen. He did such a great job helping us with our research. We hope to see him again in the future!

We're looking for more baby scientists between 7 and 9 months of age - please email us (dean.dsouza@anglia.ac.uk) i...

Hana is moving to Cambridge University. She'll be extending her research using head-mounted eye tracking to understand developmental constraints on language learning in toddlers with attentional/motor atypicalities.

More exciting news! The Waterloo Foundation will fund our longitudinal work on understanding Down syndrome and fragile X syndrome. More details to follow!

Exciting news! The British Academy will fund our study on predictors of academic performance in atypically developing children. More details to follow!