Studies Related to Childhood

Automatic Recognition of Children's Speech

Elborn College (EC)

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study looking at speech and language. The study involves talking while playing, and retelling stories. The session will be audio- and video- recorded.

Early Language Development and Sound Processing in the Brain

Elborn College (EC) or Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo)

We are looking for volunteers to take part in an EEG study looking at early language development and sound processing in the brain.

Dyadic Social and Emotional Development

Robarts Research Institute (RRI)

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study of the contextual contributors to young children's social and emotional development.

Brain Variability in Children with Previous Infantile Hydrocephalus

Robarts Research Institute (RRI)

The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the differences in brain networks between healthy children and children who have experienced hydrocephalus as infants.

Narrative Engagement in Children

Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)

Children routinely engage in listening activities where they are required to sustain their attention and listen carefully so that they can incorporate things they have heard to understand future events. This includes classroom listening, story time with family members, or social communication with friends. In the current study, we are hoping to study how children maintain their attention in these types of listening scenarios, and how this relates to things like working memory across children.

Sensory processing in development and in autism

Online & Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB)

How we perceive the world greatly impacts how we interact with it. Sensory perception is known to change throughout development and to be different in children with developmental disorders such as autism. This study will explore the developmental trajectory of how we perceive the world, how the development of sensory processing differs in autism, and what the neural underpinnings of this typical and atypical development are.

Typical and Atypical Development of Compensation to Altered Auditory Feedback

Elborn College (EC)

Early detection of speech, language, and hearing disorders is critical for optimizing outcomes. One great challenge is the early detection of developmental language disorder (DLD). Children with DLD struggle to comprehend what is said to them and express themselves verbally. We are interested in studying how the brains of children process what they hear, comparing typically developing children with children with DLD to improve early identification.