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Wendy Best Professor of Communication Science and Language Therapy w.best@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4257 |
Research: Investigation of and therapy for speech and language difficulties in children and adults. Current projects focus on: word-finding, gesture, auditory comprehension and conversation. Facilitating links between research and clinical practice. Previous research has included work with people with anomia, developmental dyslexia, category specific semantic disorder and with word sound deafness. |
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Suzanne Bow Teaching Fellow s.bow@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4268 |
Research: Inclusive Practice |
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Gordon Craig Teaching Fellow gordon.craig@ucl.ac.uk Email only |
Research: tbc |
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Michael Clarke Lecturer m.clarke@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4253 |
Research: My research interests include the development of social communication in non-speaking children with complex motor disorders, outcomes of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions, and AAC devise usability. |
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Chris Donlan Deputy to Head of Division of Psychology and Language Sciences c.donlan@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4243 |
Research: Language and mathematical cognition, with a special interest in development and disorders. Most of my research has been with children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI). Recent findings concern the impact of SLI on the development of mathematical language, skills, and concepts.mathematical language. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Development, Language, and Cognitive Science |
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Simon Grobler Teaching Fellow s.grobler@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4176 |
Research: Community rehabilitation for adults with communication and swallowing disorders. Social reintegration for people with chronic communication disorders; COPD and dysphagia LSVT; Optimising student placements for the benefit of both students and service. |
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Lorna Halliday Lecturer l.halliday@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4265 |
Research: Auditory processing; Developmental disorders of communication (dyslexia, SLI, mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss); Auditory training. |
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Laura Hogben Teaching Fellow l.hogben@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4229 |
Research: tbc |
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Charles Hulme Professor c.hulme@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4285 |
Research: Current research interests include the development of reading and language skills in children, and developmental disorders of these skills. He has published widely on different developmental disorders including Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Speech and Language Impairment, and genetic disorders including Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. He has wide experience of Randomised Controlled Trials evaluating treatments for reading and language difficulties in children. |
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Merle Mahon Senior Lecturer merle.mahon@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4036 |
Research: Interaction and spoken language development in deaf children; deaf and hearing children for whom English is an additional language; Conversation Analysis methodology. |
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Caroline Newton Lecturer caroline.newton@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4222 |
Research: Research currently focusing on: The assessment of speech discrimination skills in various clinical populations, in particular the use of eye gaze as a means of assessment; Long-term outcomes for children provided with augmentative and alternative communication systems; The impact of unfamiliar speaker accent on auditory comprehension in adults with aphasia. |
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Alexandra Perovic Teaching Fellow a.perovic@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 207 679 4277 |
Research:Typical and atypical language development, especially the syntactic development in children with developmental disorders: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome; acquisition of Serbian/Croatian |
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Rachel Rees Teaching Fellow rachel.rees@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4226 |
Research: Deaf children's speech processing skills, assessment of deaf children's speech, role of orthography in deaf children's speech development, effects of Cued Speech on speech and literacy development |
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Anne Schlottmann Reader in Cognitive Development & Third Year Tutor a.schlottmann@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 5383 |
Research: Cognitive development; causal reasoning and perception in children and adults; probability understanding in children; Information Integration Theory |
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Sarah Simpson Lecturer s.simpson@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4218 |
Research: Speech and language therapist interested in the links between written and spoken language difficulties in children of school age. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Development, Language, and Cognitive Science |
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Nichola Stuart Teaching Fellow n.stuart@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4265 |
Research:Typical and atypical language and literacy development (with a focus on Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia); the phonological difficulties that characterise both SLI and dyslexia and the semantic/syntactic interface in SLI. |
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John Swettenham Senior Lecturer j.swettenham@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4220 |
Research: Processes underlying the development of social communication in normal and abnormal populations. This includes work on attention and perception, joint attention and face processing in autism. Associated with the following HCS research categories: Development, Language, and Cognitive Science |
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Head of Research Department of Developmental Science, Reader |
Research: Visual Development, Development disabilities. |
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Janet Wood Lecturer janet.wood@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4241 |
Research: Interagency service development for children with speech and language difficulties: an investigation within a naturalistic setting. |
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Researchers |
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Kelly Burgoyne +44 (0) 20 7679 4292 |
Research: Previously she worked as a Research Fellow with Down Syndrome Education International. Kelly’s research interests focus on reading and language development for typically-developing children and children with intellectual disability, and on developing and evaluating interventions to support these skills. |
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Lucy Hughes lucy.hughes@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 4283 |
Research: investigation of word-finding difficulties in children and how these can be remediated. I am currently working on an ESRC-funded project, which brings together researchers from three institutions: UCL, Birkbeck and the Institute of Education. |
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Samantha Wallis samantha.wallis@ucl.ac.uk Email only |
Research: Functional gaze control in young children with cerebral palsy |
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Jan Atkinson Emeritus Professor j.atkinson@ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 7574 |
Research: Visual development in term & preterm infants, infant vision screening, development of visual attention, visual development in children with Williams Syndrome. |
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Oliver Braddick +44 1865 271410 |
Research: Visual processes: local and global processing in motion, pattern, and spatial vision. Visual and visuomotor development in infants and children. |
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Roz Barker Principal Speech and Language Therapist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Cochlear Implant Programme |
Research: Deafness and Cochlear Implants |
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Principal Clinical Psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Cochlear Implant Programme +44 (0) 20 7813 8316 |
Research: Cochlear Implants |
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Gisela Szagun gisela.szagun@googlemail.com |
Research:Language development in children with normal hearing and children with cochlear implants; inflectional morphology; developmental model of multiple influences on language development in children with cochlear implants. |
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Mairead MacSweeney Lecturer m.macsweeney@ich.ucl.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7679 1157 |
Research: Neuropsychology of language processing in deaf people: BSL, speechreading and text reading. Cognitive development in deaf children. |
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Frances Rice Honorary Lecturer f.rice@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 4257 |
Research: I am interested in developmental psychopathology, especially the aetiology of emotional problems in young people. I use a number of approaches to try and identify proximal risk factors for psychopathology in children and adolescents including behaviour genetics, quasi-experimental designs, longitudinal research and neuroimaging. |
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Pam Czerniewska Secondary Supervisor: |
Research: Autistic spectrum disorder; interventions for under 5's; parent support. Autism; socio-developmental approaches; group-based intervention. |
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Katherine Price Research Student k.price@ich.ucl.ac.uk Principal Supervisor Dr Michael Clarke Secondary Supervisor Dr John Swettenham |
Research: Communication difficulties for children with cerebral palsy |
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Research Students |
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Maryam Bahakeem zczlft5@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: Typical
phonological development in Saudi Arabic-speaking children. |
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Francina Clayton f.clayton.12@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: The typical and atypical development of reading skills in children; in particular how letter speech-sound correspondences are learnt and contribute to reading acquisition. |
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Fleur Corbett Research Student fleur.corbett.10@ucl.ac.uk Principal Supervisor John Wattam-Bell |
Research: Examination of the contribution of visual perceptual processing deficits to Developmental Coordination Disorder |
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Hannah Dyson hannah.dyson.12@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: Vocabulary acquisition and its effects on reading comprehension |
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Tom Griffiths tom.griffiths.11@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: Development of social cognition in children with cerebral palsy. |
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Louisa Kulke louisa.kulke.12@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: Typical and atypical development of attention in infants and the brain connections involved in this development. |
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Kathleen McCarthy Research Student kathleen.mccarthy@ucl.ac.uk Prinicipal Supervisor: Dr Merle Mahon Secondary Supervisor: Dr Bronwen Evans |
Research: Development of speech perception and production, bilingualism, L2, Bengali |
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Julian Tillmann julian.tillmann.11@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: Development of multisensory integration and attention in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
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Lulin Zhou ucjtlz5@ucl.ac.uk |
Research: Cognitive skills as predictors of learning to read Chinese characters. |
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Executive Officer |
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Antonietta Esposito Executive Officer a.esposito@ucl.ac.uk + 44 (0) 20 7679 5332 |
Executive Officer and Postgraduate Administrator to CPB/Developmental Science |
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