Dr Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez

I am a Research Associate working on the ICICLES project which explores the impact of Covid-19 on children's language, educational and socioemotional skills. 

I have previously worked on different projects investigating language development in childhood at the University of Leeds and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

I completed my PhD at the University of Birmingham, where I investigated how typically developing infants, late talkers and children born preterm learn words and the word learning biases they use. My research also included two vocabulary interventions, one for typically developing infants and one for late talkers, aimed at boosting vocabulary learning.