The first report from the Children of the 2020s study, published by the DfE and led by UCL in partnership with Ipsos and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Birkbeck, University of London, finds overall, nine-month-olds understood an average of 14 out of 51 common words. It says this is similar to pre-pandemic norms.
The study follows more than 8,500 families and their babies, born in England between September and November 2021. According to the DfE, it is the first long-term, nationally representative study of babies since the UK Millennium Cohort Study that was launched more than 20 years ago.
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