Sarah Spencer is a lecturer at the Department for Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield. She is a speech and language therapist and has clinical and research interests including: children and young people with speech and language disorders; social class; qualitative methods; and evidence-based interventions.
Hannah Harvey is a PhD student in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at Birmingham City University. She is interested in early years development of speech and language, related disorders, and is currently researching diagnostic terminology used in this area.
Sarah Colmer is a speech and language therapy assistant working in Nottinghamshire Children’s Centres. She has an interest in using research to evaluate services to improve children’s communication and language skills.
Sue Guest is an early years Speech and Language Therapist working in Nottinghamshire Children’s Centres. With a nominal role as Early Language Consultant, she leads on early language workforce development across the county.
Dawn Humber is a speech and language therapy assistant working in Nottinghamshire Children’s Centres. She has a passion for using research to improve children’s communication and language skills.
Dave McDonald is an early years Speech and Language Therapist working in Nottinghamshire Children’s Centres. He has an interest in using clinical research to improve speech and language services for children.
Charlotte Ward is a speech and language therapy assistant with a background of working in the early years sector. She has a passion for using play to support children’s language development and engaging parents in their child’s learning.
Jane Young is the Speech and Language Therapy Service Manager for Nottinghamshire Children and Families Partnership. She provides strategic advice on Nottinghamshire’s Language for Life approach and is passionate about improving all children’s life chances by ensuring every child achieves their potential in their speech, language and communication skills.
Leanne Wilson is a speech-language therapist who undertook her doctoral research at the College of Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research focuses on understanding how to promote collaboration among primary school teachers and speech-language therapists to support children’s spoken and written language development.
Brigid McNeill is a senior academic within the College of Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is an applied researcher in the fields of developmental speech disorder, spelling, early language and literacy development, initial teacher education and educational interventions.
Gail Gillon is Director of the Child Wellbeing Research Institute at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A professor in speech-language therapy, she is well known internationally for her research in reading disorder and the prevention of reading difficulties for young children at risk.
Beatrijs Wille holds a PhD in Linguistics and Health Sciences from Ghent University. At the moment she is a postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Diego. Her research interests involve Flemish Sign Language (VGT) first language acquisition and early literacy in deaf children.
Kristiane Van Lierde is full professor at Ghent University, Department Rehabilitation Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her research expertise is the assessment and treatment of speech characteristics, especially voice and cleft palate speech (articulation and resonance).
Mieke Van Herreweghe is senior full professor at Ghent University, Department of Linguistics. Her main research interests revolve around grammatical, lexicographic and sociolinguistic aspects of VGT and the Flemish Deaf Community and VGT first language acquisition.
