Areej Asad is a PhD candidate in speech science at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. She previously worked in the Center for Phonetics Research, Speech and Hearing Clinic at University of Jordan, Jordan. Her research interests are in narrative language, speech production and evidence-based speech therapy approaches for children with hearing loss.
Karen Bryan is also an SLT and is Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University. Until recently, she was Head of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Surrey, and a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist in the West London Mental Health Trust. Karen developed the first SLT services in Young Offender Institutions in England and has worked on a number of projects to evaluate the impact of SLT services on young offenders who experience communication difficulties.
Sue Buckley is Director for Research at Down Syndrome Education International. Sue began her research into the learning needs of children with Down syndrome in 1980 and has played a leading role in stimulating growth in research into the education and development of children with Down syndrome worldwide.
Kelly Burgoyne is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University College London. Previously she worked as a Research Fellow with Down Syndrome Education International. Kelly’s research interests focus on reading and language development and on developing and evaluating interventions to support these skills.
Reinie Cordier is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University, Australia. His research interests include the social inclusion of children with developmental disorders.
Kimberley Docking is a speech pathology lecturer and researcher in the area of child language at the University of Sydney. Her research to date has made contributions to the field of paediatric acquired language disorders in populations recovering from brain cancer and brain injury. Her research also explores the language and play of children with ADHD, as well as typical development in the areas of word learning and semantic categorization.
Fiona Duff is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in understanding typical and atypical development of language and literacy, and in devising and evaluating theoretically-motivated interventions to help children with weaknesses in these skills.
Prudence Ellis is a graduate of the Master of Speech-Language Pathology (Honours) program at the University of Sydney. Prudence began her career in the area of paediatric speech and hearing for children with hearing impairments. She now works with adults with acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders, in the area of rehabilitation, aged care, palliative care, with a special interest in persons with Dementia.
Liz Fairgray is an MSc in Speech Pathology & Audiology and has worked for 25 years in paediatric communication disorders. At the University of Auckland Listening & Language Clinic, she specializes in the treatment of children with communication difficulties due to hearing loss, and complex chromosomal and autism spectrum disorders.
Hilary Gardner is a lecturer at The University of Sheffield, Department of Human Communication Sciences. Hilary also works as a speech and language therapist in independent practice with clients aged 2 to 25 years, working with schools, a multidisciplinary team and as an expert witness.
Juliette Gregory has worked as a Speech and language Therapist (SLT) since graduating in1985 and is currently employed by Leeds Community Health Care. Juliette’s secondment in 2008 to Leeds Youth Offending Service led to SLT being accepted and embraced by the service. Juliette’s findings from this work were published in the IJLCD in 2011 and she has subsequently extended the SLT service into custodial settings (YOI and secure children’s home). Juliette also manages the Communication Aids Service in Leeds.
Linda Hand is a Senior Lecturer in child language development and disorders at the University of Auckland. Her research interests are in linguistic and cultural diversity and communication disorders, children’s use of oral texts, and discourse analysis of children’s talk and of client-professional interactions.
Charles Hulme is Professor of Psychology at the University College London. Previously he worked at the University of York, where he co-directed the Centre for Reading and Language with Maggie Snowling. Charles has broad research interests in reading, language and memory processes and their development and is an expert on randomized controlled trials in Education.
Natalie Munro is a speech-language pathologist and lecturer at The University of Sydney. Her research interests include word-learning abilities in children with SLI, and the pragmatic language skills of children with ADHD. Natalie is a founding member of speechBITE™, an online database offering methodological ratings of randomized / non-randomized interventions relevant to speech pathology practice.
Suzanne Purdy is Head of Speech Science in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland. She has a background in psychology and audiology. Her research spans many aspects of communication disorders, but she has a particular interest in hearing loss in children and auditory processing disorder.
Katie Purse has an MSc from the University of Sheffield and is a Senior Speech and Language therapist working for Cornwall Foundation Trust with a mixed clinical and managerial role. She has a particular interest in clinical caseload management and decision-making, and in clinical education for speech and language therapy.
Maggie Snowling is President of St John’s College, Oxford. Previous to that, Maggie held a personal Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. Her research focuses on children’s language and learning with a specific interest in the nature and causes of children’s reading difficulties and how best to ameliorate them.
Annalene van Staden is a senior lecturer in Educational Psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, South Africa. She is also the discipline head and the coordinator of the honours practical programme (Special Needs/Support Teaching). She is a NRF-rated (National Research Foundation) researcher. Her research interests include typical and atypical language and literacy development (deaf children, dyslexic children, children with specific language impairment and English second language learners).
