Studies Related to Childhood
Children's Hospital (London Health Sciences Centre)
Our team is studying ways to improve care for children who slip into coma after brain injury. This work involves comparing brain's response to sounds of such unresponsive brain-injured children with that of age-matched healthy children. As a healthy child volunteer in this study, you’ll be helping researchers understand how the brain responds to sounds, stories, and instructions, things we all experience every day. Your participation will help us compare typical brain responses to those of children with brain injuries, so we can learn more about hidden awareness and improve care for kids who are seriously ill.
Children, 18 years old or less
Healthy volunteers
English speaking
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.
Children 3 to 6 years old
Healthy volunteers
Speak some English at home
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.
Children 1 to 5 years old
Healthy volunteers
from English-speaking home
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.
Children 6 to 8 years old
Healthy volunteers
No Diagnosis of ASD or ADHD
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.
Children 6 to 12 years old
Healthy volunteers
Fluent in English
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.
Children 9 to 12 years old
Healthy Volunteers
Fluent in English
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.
Please click on "Who can participate in this study?"
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.
Children 3 to 13 years old
Healthy volunteers
Individuals with ASD and/or DLD
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