Cardiff Child Development Study
About CCDS
We would like to invite you to help with a new study of children’s early development, from birth to the age of three. Our study is funded by the Medical Research Council and based in the School of Psychology, Park Place, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT.
The aim of the study is to find out how children learn to relate to other people. We are particularly interested to learn why some children have difficulties settling into playgroups and nursery schools. Children’s behaviour in nursery or reception classes is an early sign of how they will cope with later challenges. Children who have difficulties getting along with others do less well in primary and secondary school. This means that it is critically important to find out why some three-year-olds find getting along with other children more difficult than others do. To do this, we must begin early, and study infants’ earliest relationships in their families and with the other children they meet.