Dr Penny Levickis is a postdoctoral research fellow in the REEaCh Hub. She was awarded her PhD by the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.
Her PhD was in the field of child language development, specifically examining contributions of parent behaviours to child language outcomes in a community-based sample of slow-to-talk toddlers. Her primary areas of research interest are in examining factors that predict variation in language pathways, in particular contributions of adult-child interactions as well as investigating the effectiveness of prevention and intervention for children at risk of developmental language disorder. In her recent work as part of her Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship she explored parents’ experiences of taking part in parent language programs aimed at enhancing parent-child interaction. Penny’s current research focuses on enhancing the quality of educator-child interactions in early childhood education and care to promote child language development and reduce social inequalities. This is an opportunity to provide enriched language learning opportunities to the most vulnerable children and their families who find engaging directly with early intervention services difficult.
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Expectations and experiences of parents taking part in parent-child interaction programmes to promote child language: a qualitative interview study
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Melbourne Graduate School Of Education
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Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
Monash University