Eleftheria Geronikou is a speech and language therapist, Technical Laboratory Staff member and adjunct instructor in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece. Her research interests include the development of the speech processing system and the implementation of psycholinguistic principles in assessment and intervention in Greek-speaking children.
Maggie Vance is a retired speech and language therapist whose research interests included children with speech disorders and the use of a psycholinguistic approach to assessment and intervention.
Bill Wells is emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. With Joy Stackhouse he developed a psycholinguistic framework for assessing children with speech difficulties. Their latest book is about the development of intonation as a system for communicating meaning.
Jenny Thomson is a Reader in Language and Literacy, in the Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK. Her research interests include the relationships between speech, language and literacy difficulties.
Blanca Schaefer is a qualified speech and language therapist. Her research interest focusses on child speech and language acquisition in mono- and multilingual children and assessment development. After working as a post-doctoral research associate on two projects in the UK, a professorship in Germany and a lectureship at the University of Sheffield, she is currently working as a freelance speech and language therapist.
Hanna Ehlert has worked as a speech a language therapist for several years. Currently, she is employed as a research associate at the Lab for Relational Communication Research (University of Hannover) and is working on a PhD project on language testing for multilingual children. Her research interests include language acquisition and assessment in mono- and multilingual children.
Lisa Kemp is a qualified speech and language therapist with a special interest in child language acquisition in mono- and multilingual children. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the HAWK (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim, Germany). She has been a lecturer since 2014 and is currently employed at the Bernd-Blindow colleges Hannover/Brückenburg with a focus on language acquisition.
Kristina Hösl is a qualified speech and language therapist and completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the HAWK (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim, Germany). Currently, she is working at an Early Support Centre for children with speech, language and communication needs with a focus on multilingual children.
Verena Schrader is a qualified speech and language therapist and completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the HAWK (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim, Germany). She currently works in a speech and language therapy practice in Hannover.
Clarissa Warnecke is a qualified speech and language therapist. She completed her postgraduate degree at the HAWK (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim, Germany). She has worked in several speech and language therapy practices with a focus on child language acquisition.
Frank Herrmann completed his MA in phonetics at the University of Leeds, carried out his PhD project at the Department of Human Communication Sciences (University of Sheffield) and was employed as a senior lecturer in English language and linguistics at the English Department (University of Chester) during this project.
Emily Dawes is a speech and language therapist working at a specialist school for children with developmental language disorder in Perth, Western Australia. Her research interests include developmental language disorder, literacy and early intervention.
Suze Leitao and Mary Claessen are speech pathologists, academics and researchers within the School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology at Curtin University in Western Australia. Their work is focused on adding to the the evidence base to support the clinical practice of SLTs and educators, in particular for children with developmental language disorder.
Robert Kane is a methodological advisor in the School of Psychology at Curtin University. He is primarily interested in methodological issues relating to applied behavioural research.
Katrina Nicholas is an Assistant Professor and certified speech-language pathologist in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at California State University, East Bay. Her research program applies principles of learning and memory to improve treatment techniques for children with developmental language disorders.
Mary Alt is an Associate Professor and certified speech-language pathologist in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. Her research is focused on answering the question: How do people learn words and the concepts associated with those words?
Ella Hauwiller is a certified speech-language pathologist at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon in Portland. Her main interests include dysphagia, voice, traumatic brain injury, and bilingualism in aphasia and cognitive-linguistic rehabilitation.
