We are looking for hearing children of Deaf parents who use BSL and English on a daily basis and who are aged between 6-11 years old. Have a look here 👉 BSL info 👉 goo.gl/fPgrYD If you're interested 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ contact [email protected] (Justyna Kotowicz)

Fantastic talk from Rhona Stainthorp at #SSSR2018 pre-conference about research impact and dissemination. Lots of examples of jargon words we take for granted that people know.

New paper out from Evelyne Mercure on audio-visual speech integration in hearing babies of deaf signing mothers. Sign-speech bilingual infants differ to speech bilingual and monolingual infants. doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

Improving Your Statistical Inferences by Daniël Lakens on Coursera has already helped me reframe how I think about statistics (even after years taking of stats classes). And it’s only week one! 😊 #AcademicTwitter #PhDchat #PhDforum #Statistics

Calling all BSL teachers, students, and researchers! Please complete our survey about the #BSLcorpus and #BSLsignbank - you could win a travel bursary to attend the BSL Corpus celebration in London on 3 Nov 2018 😃 ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-even…

BILINGUAL PROJECT IS BACK at DCAL ! We are looking for hearing children of Deaf parents who use BSL and English on a daily basis and who are aged between 6-11 years old. Please contact [email protected] (Justyna Kotowicz) #BSL #SignLanguagesDay youtube.com/watch?v=o08_FP…

Hey, ASLI members! Did you know the #BSLCorpus is now 10 years old? Come celebrate with us & some of the original team - Robert Adam, Kearsy Cormier, @drcastone, & @jordanfenlonlx. Deaf relay interpreters are available if needed - please get in touch with us this week. #BSL #1nt

New paper out from Evelyne Mercure on attention to faces in sign/ speech bilingual babies UCL ICN DCAL Impact of Language Experience on Attention to Faces in Infancy: Evidence From Unimodal and Bimodal Bilingual Infants frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

We've been invited to present w/@DiscoverUCL at ‘Supporting Disabled Students Throughout Higher Education’ (bit.ly/2Usghmo) but we will not be attending… because Inside Government have refused to pay for BSL interpreters for a deaf presenter Disability Rights UK APPG for Disability

Very proud of our new paper: RCT of computerised speechreading training in deaf children. Spoiler alert-led to improvements in speechreading & some suggestion of other gains too. DCAL Dr Fiona Kyle Lizzie Buchanan-Worster Wellcome BATOD Available to all: pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Calling #UK #deaf & #infant twitter: I'm recruiting families of babies (<24mo) born deaf! Spend a fun day at the Birkbeck BabyLab & ToddlerLab & contribute to research on #languagedevelopment 🎉👶🏼 Register your interest here: bit.ly/2OAazdu. Pls spread the word!! DCAL UCL ICN

Enjoying writing papers this year from my PhD as part of Economic and Social Research Council post-doctoral fellowship. And enjoying new writing challenges - I've written a post on the SCALES blog!

DCAL-X is here! Join us for a one-day festival where members of DCAL share their research with the wider community! Please register here: eventbrite.com/e/dcal-x-ticke… Saturday 7th March 2020. BSL interpreters + STTR provided. We look forward to seeing all of you!

Thank you Gorilla Experiment Builder for #BeOnline2020 today! Such an exciting, interesting and enjoyable day learning about online research! I learnt a lot!

Check out this website for stories about CV-19 aimed at children in BSL & many other sign languages. DCAL teamed up with Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children to produce 4 BSL e-books on CV-19. riseebooks.wixsite.com/access/c - special thanks to Donna Jo Napoli & Gene Mirus for putting RISE books together.

Come and join our team! Applications are open for the 2021 round of PhD studentships MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Cambridge University. Anyone interested in doing a PhD on #development in children who are #deaf or who have #hearingloss please contact me!

Have you wondered *why* some people find it difficult to understand others who are wearing a face mask?😷 We're looking for parents/children & adults to help us answer this question! Sign up here forms.gle/iCe5wdRzUQqWJu… £10 voucher for families / £5 for adults Please RT!!😃

*UK families with children age 8-12* If you're looking for something fun to do with your kids from home this summer, consider taking part in our paid online game 💻 Gorilla Experiment Builder on language🦜and face masks😷 Register at: tinyurl.com/permasc Please RT!