What specific age range do you focus on more in your research and why? (for example do you look at the learning of

Question: What specific age range do you focus on more in your research and why? (for example do you look at the learning of speech with infants or the development in the elderly and dementia).
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  age,
  development,
  research,
  speech
Asked by anon-184167 to Tom on 12 Nov 2018.
- Tom Gallagher-Mitchell answered on 12 Nov 2018:
  
  I conduct research with ages from 4yrs all the way through to older adulthood, so around 80yrs. I feel a lifespan approach to development is key to addressing some of the ideas around how processes change as we age.

Abbie commented on 12 Nov 2018:

Good question Nikkita I tend to focus on young people from 10-24 (we are now extending to older adolescence) but have literally submitted a grant application only today for studying children aged 8-11. So mostly teenagers and young adults but I am extending to younger children.

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Question: What specific age range do you focus on more in your research and why? (for example do you look at the learning of speech with infants or the development in the elderly and dementia).