Project Details
SEED examines differences in early child development, specifically oral language skills and socio-emotional development. These manifest as social inequalities which, for many, persist through childhood and into work.
The project has two principal objectives:
- Identify the mechanisms through which changing social inequalities impact on children’s oral language and socio-emotional development;
- Identify the implications that these evolving social disparities have for patterns of performance at school age and beyond into adolescence and adulthood.
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Stakeholders
Academic stakeholders: National and international academics in the fields of language acquisition, developmental psychology, demography, social policy, epidemiology and education studies. International academic researchers across areas of application of social statistics using non-linear models such as quantile regression and marginal structural models, and those responsible for designing birth cohort studies.
Policy makers civil society groups: and Policy makers, charitable organisations, parliamentarians, commissioners and
Clinical stakeholders: European practitioners with clinical specialisms in disorders of child development, such as paediatricians and speech and language therapists
General public: Parents and teachers in countries covered by the analyses.