Jackie Dearden is an educational psychologist (senior practitioner) at Nottingham City Children and Families Community Educational Psychology Service, Nottingham, UK. She also lectures on the MA Special Needs course at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include communication and demonstration of learning in children with severe communication impairments and intellectual disability.
Anne Emerson is a former speech and language therapist, currently a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests are children with severe intellectual impairment and communication disorders, autism and interventions.
Yasuhiro Funazaki is associate professor of Graduate School of Medical Welfare at Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan, where he trains speech and language therapists. His research focuses on the understanding of developmental language disorders, and the development of strategies to support cognitive development and learning, especially in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Anastasia Giannakopoulou is a speech-language development researcher and lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Her primary areas of interest include brain plasticity, developmental and cognitive psychology, perceptual training, first and second language acquisition, particularly using high variability phonetic training and event-related potentials techniques.
Martha Geiger is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Rehabilitation Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is a speech and language therapist, with a special interest in interventions for children with severe communication difficulties and also works with The Chaeli Campaign in under-resourced communities.
Cynthia Kilpatrick is an associate professor of linguistics and TESOL at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Her research interests focus broadly on the acquisition of first and second languages, particularly in the areas of phonology and speech perception.
Manabu Oi is Professor at the United Graduate School of Child Development at Osaka University, Kanazawa University and Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan. He specializes in personality, gender, and cultural specificities of high-functioning autistic children (including bilingual children), taking a pragmatics-based approach to language and communication invention.
Michelle Pascoe is a senior lecturer in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a speech and language therapist with a special interest in intervention for children with speech, language and literacy difficulties.
Candice Randall-Pieterse is a chief speech therapist at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Her current caseload includes children with speech, language and literacy difficulties who require specialist intervention at tertiary hospital level.
Christina Reuterskiöld is an associate professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University, USA, where she teaches courses and conducts research in language development, language disorders and literacy learning in children. She holds degrees from Boston University, USA, and Lund University, Sweden.
Nick G. Riches is a lecturer in speech and language pathology at Newcastle University, UK. His research investigates both syntactic and lexical difficulties in language-impaired children, and language impairments in autism. He has a particular interest in constructivist accounts of language difficulties.
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis is Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University, USA, and Associate Director of the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory. Her education included the University of Chicago, Brown University and an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship. She teaches and performs neurolinguistic and speech science research.
Jodi Tommerdahl is an associate professor of education at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Her research interests include clinical linguistics, language acquisition and the development of reasoning abilities throughout the lifespan.
Maria Uther is a Reader in Cognitive Psychology and Head of Department at University of Winchester. She has research interests in auditory and speech perception. Her recent work has focussed on spoken language acquisition in child and adult learners.
Sari Ylinen is a post-doctoral researcher in that Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her primary topics of interest are language learning, speech processing in the brain, and auditory event-related potentials.
