Explore this unique opportunity to join UCL's prestigious Division of Psychology and Language Sciences as a Research Assistant. Engage in a Wellcome-funded, three-year project led by Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney, focusing on the role of visual communication skills in reading development among young deaf children. This fixed-term role offers a chance to register for a PhD at UCL. Knowledge of British Sign Language (BSL) is a requirement.

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7/19/2023

Meet Kearsy Cormier, the Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), as she warmly welcomes you to the world of DCAL’s innovative research. DCAL boasts a multidisciplinary team of experts from fields such as linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience. They are committed to investigating how deaf individuals engage with, comprehend, and learn languages, as well as understanding the cognitive processes unique to deaf people. The research conducted at DCAL has been groundbreaking, shedding light on language processing in the brain, the influence of language variation on sign language structure, and how language is processed by both deaf children and adults. These insights are not only integral for advancing the scientific knowledge in this domain but are also invaluable in informing educational practices and clinical interventions tailored for the deaf community. Explore DCAL's website to learn more about their mission and groundbreaking discoveries.

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6/8/2023

We are pleased to announce that the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at University College London has an exciting opportunity for three, one-week paid placements. As a paid research intern, you can learn first-hand what is involved in conducting research in the areas of linguistics, psycholinguistics and language development in the context of deafness and sign language. Alternatively, as a professional services intern, you can see what goes on behind the scenes of a research centre and work in our Professional Services team, this may include but not limited to science communication, event management and community engagement. You will gain valuable higher education experience in these areas.

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2/2/2023

We currently have 3 exciting projects running at DCAL that investigate the relationship between language and literacy development. One study looks at language comprehension in deaf children and is one of the largest research projects that involves deaf children here at DCAL. The goals of the project are to adapt a comprehension task from American Sign Language into British Sign Language (BSL) and to explore the effects of BSL vocabulary and BSL syntax toward deaf children’s comprehension of BSL. For this study, we will need 300 deaf children between age 4 and 18 years old so if you work at a school, know of resource base schools with deaf children, or are a parent/caregiver of a deaf child, do get in touch with Patrick Rosenburg and Kate Rowley at p.rosenburg@ucl.ac.uk. For more information, see our Development Research Page: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/deafness-cognition-and-language-dcal/research-dcal/development-research In another study, we are investigating the relationshi

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12/2/2022

The current pandemic has shaken our personal and professional lives, challenging the ways in which we communicate and work, in many cases with more profound effects for deaf and hard of hearing people. Members of DCAL developed a range of strategies and guidelines to adapt to these new challenges. Here we want to share some of these with you, as well as some other online resources that can be of use during this period of remote working.

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12/11/2020

In this sample clip from the course, a health professional talks about communication strategies for those with hearing loss

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5/22/2019

In this sample clip from the course, we hear about the social model of deafness.

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5/16/2019

sample clip from the course, a health professional talks about the shared responsibility of supporting those individuals with a sensory loss

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4/15/2019