DCAL seeking Research Participants: Deaf Mothers with young babies

Below are details relating to research project with DCAL - Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre

"Babies of Deaf Mothers

We are looking for deaf mothers who use BSL and either have a baby under 7 months or are currently pregnant, to participate in our research exploring early language experience;

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/getting-involved/baby_project
BSL video available: http://youtu.be/ib7u1WsTTEE

We will cover all expenses, including travel and a hotel stay if you live far away from London. Participants would also be welcome to come with other family members.

If you'd like to get involved, please contact Laura Goldberg:

email: l.goldberg@ucl.ac.uk
skype: lauravgoldberg   "

DCAL e-newsletter + History of BSL Exhibition

There are many interesting articles in this month's issue of DCAL's e-newsletter. In particular
Page 2 Deafness and Dementia
Page 8 History of BSL exhibition

DCAL newsletter12 by Peterborough and District Deaf Children's Society

Deaf children aged 6-11 - DCAL Research Project

DCAL are seeking deaf children aged 6-11 to take part in their research project. The aim is to investigate the relationship between language and Executive Function in deaf children i.e. the process associated with planning, memory, attention and problem solving.


Further details can be found here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/research/themes-11-15/exe-func

If you are interested in participating, e-mail t.denmark@ucl.ac.uk or write to
Tanya Denmark,
DCAL, UCL
49 Gordon Square,
London,
WC1H 0PD

DCAL seeking Research Participants for new project

DCAL are seeking participants for a project researching the differences between deaf and hearing people's vision

"This project consists of an MRI scanning session lasting 1.5hours. You will only be in scanner for 1 hour, and for the first half we will ask you to look at some basic visual stimuli and for the second half you can relax and do nothing. There are also some computer based tasks which will last approximately an hour. You will be paid £32.50 for your participation, and we will refund all travel costs in the south of England. 

Would you like to take part??? 

We are looking for people who are

• profoundly/severely deaf in both ears since birth 

• no cochlear implant or other metal implanted device in body (eg. pacemaker) 

• right handed 

• not scared of small places 

• if you know any BSL, started learning after the age of 15"

If you are interested get in touch with Rebecca Lyness at rebecca.lyness.10@ucl.ac.uk

or 07920402862.

DCAL research project

 

Deaf and hearing children aged between 6 and 11 years old are invited to participate in a project which investigates the Executive Function Abilities in Deaf Children. This work is being completed within the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre.

They explain

Executive Function is a broad term, which covers many different though processes including planning, memory, attention and problem solving. Children use Executive Functions (EF) in the classroom every day at school in many ways, for example:

• When switchingfrom one topic of thinking to another e.g. defining words to drawing graphs
• When they are given independent work to do they use EF to plan which task they will do first and how long they will spend on each task
• When concentrating in the classroom and learning how to ignore distracting information
• Rememberingnew information they are taught from one part of the lesson and applying it in another part, for example when learning about names for shapes of objects and use this information to work out patterns and sequences
• Coming up with new ideas for a topic when asked by the teacher

If you and your child are considering taking part in this innovative research or want further information  visit the ylc webpage. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/research/themes-11-15/exe-func