Early Development and Deafness Network
We are an international network of researchers, charities and practitioners (teachers of the deaf, audiologists, SLTs) working with infants with different hearing abilities. We meet every 6 months to discuss research findings and plans. Presentations are in BSL, ASL or English.
Email E.Mercure@gold.ac.uk to join the network.
! NEXT MEETING September 2026 !
Our Past Meetings
19th of February 2026
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Diane Lillo-Martin (ASL), Elaine Gale & Deborah Chen Pichler, University of Connecticut: The Family ASL Project
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Heather Bortfeld (English), UC Merced, What the Deaf Brain Teaches Us About Plasticity: Language Access as a Developmental Driver
10th of September 2025
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Rain Bosworth (ASL), Rochester Institute of Technology, Museum Exploration in Deaf and Hearing Preschoolers
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Carrie Davenport (English), Building Bridges Consulting, Language Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: The Role of Early Parent-Child Interaction
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Beatriz de Diego-Lázaro (English), University of Barcelona, Oral Bilingualism and Hearing Loss in Children: Word Learning and Professional Recommendations
29th of January 2025
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Naomi Caselli (ASL), Boston University. Early language exposure and vocabulary acquisition in deaf children
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Rebecca Mansell (BSL), British Deaf Association. BSL at Home – An independent evaluation of BDA’s service
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Tom Butt (English), University of East Anglia. Navigating Two Worlds: The Experiences of Deaf Children's Parents
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Teodora Gliga (English), University of East Anglia. Measuring word knowledge in deaf babies
27th of January 2023
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Claire Monroy (English), Keele University, Cognitive differences between deaf and hearing infants
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Judit Gervain (English), Universita de Padova, Prosody development in hearing-impaired infants
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Mario Figueroa (English), Universidad de Barcelona, Incidental Learning in Deaf Infants
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Teodora Gliga (English), University of East Anglia, Introducing the BLOCKS project
22nd of July 2022
First meeting of the network
