Child Language Research Group | Te Reo o te Tamaiti

We have a fully equipped child development facility with participant parking, wheel-chair / pram access, kitchen facilities, toilet, and baby changing area. We have one-way mirrors, discreet video cameras, and a computerized direct observation data capture-analysis system.

• Development of a psychometrically validated child-directed speech measure
• New Zealand parents / caregivers of Deaf and hard of hearing children’s knowledge and beliefs about child language development
• Early childhood teachers’ contribution to child language development in NZ: What do they know, what do they do, and does it differ depending on the socioeconomic status of the children?
• New Zealand parental perceptions of diagnosis of developmental language disorder
• New Zealand Parents’ Awareness, Use and Satisfaction of Supports Available For Children with Language and Literacy Disorders
• New Zealand parent / caregiver perspective on support services for Deaf and hard of hearing children
• Cultural perceptions of language development in a New Zealand sample of parents of 54 month old children
• Cross cultural comparisons of language outcomes of children with moderate to profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants with those who received hearing aids in New Zealand
• Speech and self regulation outcomes for children with speech sound disorder following speech language assistant delivered intervention
• Multisensory processing in children with autism

Past research

• An Intervention Programme for 3;0 to 4;0-Year-Old Children with Co-Occurring Speech and Language Disorders
• New Zealand parents / caregivers’ knowledge and beliefs about child language development
• Speech language pathologists' practices of parent involvement in children's speech and language intervention funded by the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• A pilot study of the effects of the Way-to-Play Training Programme in supporting communication and social engagement of parents and their children with autism
•  Predicting child language outcomes using child responses in parent child interaction between 2-4 years 
• Supporting early childhood teachers to facilitate children's emergent literacy and oral language development
• Exploring early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices in emergent literacy: Does practice vary by the socioeconomic status of the children?
• Multilingual practice ith children with speech and language disorders
• Predicting reading disorders in a clinical sample of children with language disorder (in collaboration with Professor Laura Justice)
• The effectiveness of video self-modelling with children with autism in the home environment
• Teacher and student experiences of remote microphone systems in primary school classrooms
• The efficacy of computer-assisted reading comprehension intervention for children with autism