Campaign News - International Communication Project

Lockdown Babies Behind on Communication Milestones: To Help Toddlers’ Language Skills, Just Talk and Listen

Posted on December 2, 2022 by kgraham-cannon@asha.org

Research has found that babies born during lockdown have been later to meet some language and communication milestones. During this time, babies met fewer new people and had fewer chances to socialise with other adults and babies, whether in baby groups or in family and friends’ homes, and parents had work responsibilities while caring for their babies. This may have led to the lag
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Does the Language We’re Born Into Change our Brains?

Posted on August 26, 2022 by kgraham-cannon@asha.org

Researchers hunt the globe to learn more about how our brains process language. Republished from Cosmos magazine. Cosmos is owned by the Royal Institution of Australia, a not-for-profit whose mission is to communicate scientific literacy in order to create a better future. Read the original article. If you’ve ever travelled through a country with a different native language to your own, you’d have noticed
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Face Masks Affect How Children Understand Speech Differently From Adults: New Research

Posted on August 26, 2022 by kgraham-cannon@asha.org

Republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. While mask-wearing is no longer required in many locations, it remains in use as a way to limit the spread of COVID-19. One of the criticisms of masks has been that they make communication more difficult. A recent report by the UK Department for Education, for example, suggests that mask wearing during the pandemic
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ICP and the Global Disability Summit 2022

Posted on February 25, 2022 by kgraham-cannon@asha.org

Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs of global agencies, the head of the WHO: the Global Disability Summit, hosted online in February by the governments of Norway and Ghana, had an impressive attendance list. Representatives of the International Communication Project were also present as participants, scoping the potential for future events and interventions to raise the profile of communication disability. Here are some reflections. International events
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An Advocacy Snapshot in 2021

Posted on November 23, 2021 by kgraham-cannon@asha.org

November 2021 The International Communication Project (ICP) has been advocating with and for people with communication disability since 2014. A key goal has been to raise the profile of communication disability, both general awareness of prevalence and incidence (how they occur and who might have a communication disability); and also to influence the policy landscape. Our work is to ensure that people with communication
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