Sarah Boegner-Pagé completed a Bachelor of Education at the Université du Québec à Montréal followed by a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at the Université Laval, Canada. She grew up in a bilingual environment, with a German-speaking mother and a French-speaking father. The speech acquisition by bilingual children represents for her a field of particular interest. She is presently completing an internship in a speech and language therapy clinic in the north of Germany.
Bernard Camilleri is senior lecturer at City University London, UK where he is engaged in teaching in child speech disorders and research into dynamic assessment of vocabulary.
Liang Chen is an associate professor of communication sciences and special education at the University of Georgia, USA. He conducts research into Chinese linguistics, and into language development and language disorders in monolinguals and bilinguals.
Teresa YC Ching heads the Rehabilitation Procedures Research section of the National Acoustic Laboratories, Australia. Her current research includes methods for fitting hearing-aids, measuring benefits of hearing-aids and cochlear implants, and improving outcomes of children. She is particularly interested in the translation of research results to manufacturers and service providers.
Kathryn Crowe is a PhD candidate at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and research speech pathologist with the National Acoustic Laboratories, Australia. Her research focuses on multi-modalism and multilingualism in children with hearing loss and their families.
Barbara Dodd retired from City University London, UK in 2011 and is honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Barbara has worked in universities in Australia and the UK. She has been involved in developing new ways of educating speech-language therapists to maximize links between theory and practice. Collaborations with clinicians have evaluated intervention programmes and influenced clinical practice. Barbara is best known for her research into the nature of spoken and written developmental phonological disorders and how best to intervene cost-effectively.
Leah Fabiano-Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona, USA. Her research interests focus on phonological acquisition and disorders in bilingual Spanish–English-speaking children and clinical issues related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
Salomé Fontolliet has recently completed a Master’s degree in speech-language pathology at Université Laval, Canada. She currently works with preschool-age children at St-Michel/St-Leonard community health centre in Montreal, Canada. Her main research interest is language acquisition in bilingual children.
Virginia C Mueller Gathercole is Professor of Linguistics at Florida International University, USA and Professor in the School of Psychology, Bangor University, UK. She focuses on monolingual and bilingual language acquisition in relation especially to semantics, morphosyntax, and assessment. Her work also addresses issues concerning the relationship between language and cognition. She has specialized in Spanish–English and Welsh–English bilinguals.
Kai Greene is a certified bilingual speech-language pathologist and current doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research interests include examination of how bilingual children apply various compensatory strategies to complete communication tasks. He is a member of faculty at the California State University, East Bay, USA.
Helen Hambly is a research psychologist at the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit, Bristol, UK. Alongside her work on bilingual speech development, she is interested in psychosocial impacts of speech, language and communication needs, the focus of her PhD at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Natalie Hasson is lecturer and clinical tutor at City University London, UK. Her teaching and research interests lie in developmental disorders of language and in particular dynamic assessment and metacognitive interventions for language.
Caroline Jones works as a specialist speech and language therapist for the Children’s Integrated Speech and Language Therapy Service for Hackney and The City, London, UK. She is currently working on research into the effectiveness of mainstream primary intervention packages.
Jianghua Lei is Professor of Special Education at Central China Normal University, China, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia, USA in 2012. His research interests include language and cognitive development of children with exceptional needs. He has published extensively on the lipreading performance of individuals with hearing impairment in China.
David McKinnon is an associate professor in education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He has received a national teaching excellence award for his innovations in science teaching for teacher education students and is well known for his research with the CSU Remote Telescope.
Andrea AN MacLeod is an associate professor in the School of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Montreal, Canada. Her research investigates typical and disordered phonological development among monolingual and bilingual children and clinical issues related to children growing up in culturally and linguistically diverse settings.
Sharynne McLeod is Professor and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow researching multilingual speech acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is editor of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Kathryn Morgan Sharp, a native speaker of Welsh, holds a PhD on the acquisition of Welsh gender from Bangor University, UK. She is currently a research associate with the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Bangor University, UK. Her research explores child language development in bilinguals, specializing in Welsh–English bilinguals, with a primary focus on the acquisition of gender in Welsh, and on phonological development in relation to soft mutation.
Ciara O’Toole is a lecturer in speech and language therapy in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland. Her teaching and research interests are in the area of paediatric communication development and disorders. She has particular interest in bilingual language acquisition and children who are acquiring Irish as a first or second language.
Elizabeth D Peña is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her research focuses on assessment of children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and on language impairment in bilingual populations. She is particularly interested in developmental trajectories in bilinguals as an influence of ability and experience.
Sue Roulstone is the Underwood Trust Professor of Language and Communication Impairment at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is also a director of the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and North Bristol NHS Trust, UK. Research interests include children and family perspectives on speech and language impairment, professional judgement and decision making epidemiology of speech and language impairment, evaluation of speech and language therapy.
Jodie Smith works as a paediatric speech therapist in community health at Alfred Health in Melbourne, Australia and for The Stroke Association of Victoria, Australia.
Yvonne Wren is a senior research speech and language therapist at the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit, Bristol, UK. She holds a National Institute of Health Research Fellowship to investigate persistent speech disorder. She is also a visiting research fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
