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We warmly invite you to register for our free hybrid BICYCLE study launch event. We welcome all interested people including parents/caregivers, teachers, speech and language therapists, professional organisations, health visitors, policy makers, charities, and service providers.
The BICYCLE study is looking at whether Covid lockdowns had an impact on children's talking and thinking skills. This study is based at City, University of London, and involves colleagues at five other universities across England.
We are seeing 200 children who were born during the strictest Covid lockdown in England (born-in-lockdown, March to June 2020). We are playing a range of fun talking and thinking games with these children, as well as asking parents and caregivers about their child's talking and thinking skills. In just over a year, we see another 200 children, this time those who were born-after-lockdown (July to October 2021). The BICYCLE study will allow us to compare talking and thinking skills in children born-in-lockdown and born-after-lockdown. We will also be able to compare parent/caregiver-reported talking and thinking skills in these two groups to a third group - children from an earlier study who were toddlers when lockdowns occurred (born-before-lockdown).
Schedule:
11:45am-12:30pm
- Free light lunch (for in-person attendance)
12:30pm-1:30pm
Around one hour (in total) of talks and interviews with:
- the BICYCLE team
- a parent of a child born-in-lockdown
- a teacher with experience of educating young children born-in-lockdown
- a representative from the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
1:30pm-2:00pm
- Share your experiences of the impact of lockdown on child development
- Try out our fun thinking games for 4-year-olds!
- Network and meet colleagues
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