National call for child participants in groundbreaking language technology project – Language Explorer
Parents of children aged between four and eight are being urged to use the extra family time the pandemic has presented to participate in a groundbreaking national research project to ‘Tell one story now, help thousands of children tomorrow’. Supported by billboard advertising which went live in 400 locations across the country today, the ‘Citizen Science’ project Language Explorer uses a first-of-its-kind machine learning based app to detect and assess developmental language disorders (DLD) – something which affects two children in every classroom. Participation in Language Explorer can be done at home, and...
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