Nottingham Toddler Lab
Research into Perceptual and Cognitive Development
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Nottingham Toddler LabResearch into Perceptual and Cognitive Development |
Past Studies1. Assessing the development of your toddler.As very premature babies have a high risk of developmental difficulties later in life it is important to assess their development as early as possible. We have developed a questionnaire that parents can use to tell us about how their child is developing at 2-years of age. We can then use this information in our studies 2. Learning to use colour words.Colour names are usually learned later than the names for everyday objects. We have tried to find out why. Our studies have found that toddlers will use colour to sort objects into groups when they cannot name the colours. We have also found that toddlers can understand and name colours at around 3 years of age and some colours are learned earlier than others and these are the ones like the most. 3. Helping the development of premature babies through intervention.Babies who have been born very premature may have developmental difficulties later in life. These difficulties may relate to the interaction between parents and their premature babies. In the Preterm Infant Parenting (PIP) Study we studied if an intervention called the "Parent-Baby Interaction Programme" improves the way parents and babies respond to each other, and whether this influences the development of the babies as they become toddlers. |
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| May 2007 | © Nottingham Toddler Group, University
of Nottingham, UK |
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