NEWS
New Study on Early Language Development in Deaf Children
Meg Cychosz
MAR 28
Studying how children learn speech and language from the world around them.
News & Events
Latest from the Lab
NEWS
SPOG Lab Partners with UCSF Children's Communication Center
MAR 15
RESEARCH
How Cochlear Implants Change the Way Toddlers Learn Words
Meg Cychosz, Research Team
MAR 10
NEWS
Rocket Ship Lab Opens for Eye-Tracking Experiments
FEB 25
October
24
2025
Event
Learning to Listen: LENA Recordings and Your Child’s Language
TALK OCT 24, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
September
12
2025
Event
SPOG Lab and JTC: A Renewed Partnership in Research
TALK SEP 12, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
May
—
2025
Event
Hearing and Language Screening for Children Ages 3–5
SCREENING MAY 2025
What we do
Our Work
We combine computational and experimental techniques to study how children aged birth–6 years learn speech and language.
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Computational
Natural Language Processing
Modeling the language children hear and produce.
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Computational
Machine Learning
Finding structure in large recordings of speech.
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Experimental
Eye-tracking
Measuring what children attend to as they listen.
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Experimental
Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics
Analyzing the sounds of early speech in detail.
Where our research takes us
5 countries · 3 continents
- Stanford, USA
- Mexico City, Mexico
- La Paz, Bolivia
- Paris, France
- Madrid, Spain
Clinical Partners
SPOG maintains close clinical partnerships with
Supported By
Work in the SPOG Lab has been funded by
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