Nikki Botting joined City University of London in 2005 and is Professor of Developmental Disorders. She trained as a psychologist, before completing a PhD in Child Health. She has been researching language and communication difficulties for around 25 years. Nicola was co-investigator on The Manchester Language Study, the largest UK longitudinal study of developmental language disorder. She is currently co-leading the BICYCLE project investigating the effects of lockdown on children's language and executive function.
Becky Moss is a clinical linguist and social scientist working in the fields of health and social care communication and Patient and Public Involvement. She uses qualitative research methods to enrich and illuminate quantitative data from large scale intervention studies including randomised controlled trials. Her fields of healthcare expertise include stroke and aphasia, neonatal care and prematurity and quality of life.
Helen Spicer-Cain is a senior lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy at City, University of London and also works as an independent Speech and Language Therapist with a specialism in autism. Helen completed her PhD thesis at City in May 2019. Her research focuses on dynamic assessment, communication skills in infancy, and language and social communication development among children at increased likelihood of communication difficulties.
Gerard Poll is an associate professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Miami University in Ohio, USA. He is a speech–language pathologist and researches language and social communication skills in adolescents and young adults. He has particular interests in evidence-based language assessment practices and interprofessional education.
Tracey Hoffman is an associate professor and Prekindergarten Coordinator in the Education and Society Department at Miami University in Ohio, USA. Her research interests include high-quality childcare programs (including young children with behavior problems and developmental delays) and online teacher education programs.
Nina Crespo Allende is PhD in Linguistics (Pont. Univ. Católica de Valparaíso, Chile) and nowadays is a Professor of Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. Her research interests are many phenomena concerned with the processes of language development and its relationship with literacy, in typical and atypical child population. Nowadays, she is the leading researcher of an international project concerned with the development of processes of subordination in oral child language.
María Luisa Silva is PhD in Psychology (Univ. Nac. de La Plata, Argentina) and a Child Language Developmental Researcher at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina). She has published numerous papers, book chapters and some books considering the syntactic and discursive processes on Spanish typical and atypical children (especially Autistic children). Nowadays, she is part of the international project leading by Dra. Crespo Allende and leads others research projects in Argentina.
Jeannette Sepúlveda Toro is Master's degree in Applied Linguistics (Pont. Univ. Católica de Valparaíso, Chile). Her research interest is linguistic processing and the development of typical and atypical populations. She is lecturer of Academic Literacy and General Linguistics at some universities at Valparaíso, Chile. Nowadays, she is studying syntactic subordination in child writing.
Carola Alvarado Barra is PhD in Linguistics (PUCV, Chile) and she is Lecturer at Universidad Santo Tomás, Chile. Her research interests are Spanish grammar, as L1 and L2, and also the processes concerned with the language development in typical and atypical child populations. Nowadays she co-leads the international project managed by Dra. Crespo Allende.
Simon Sundström is a speech–language pathologist and leader of the Communicative Processes research group at the Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo. His research is about language development and interventions to improve communication in children and youth with disorders of language, cognition and hearing.
Moa Höglund is a speech–language pathologist at the habilitation, Motala hospital, Sweden. She works with assessment and treatment of speech, language and communication difficulties in children and adolescents with congenital or early acquired disabilities.
Rebecca Sällberg is a speech–language therapist who works as a clinician at the Rehabilitation Centre, Ryhov County Hospital Jönköping, Sweden, where she investigates and treats speech and language difficulties in preschool and school-age children.
Hanna Walsö is a speech–language pathologist with 20 years of clinical experience working with preschool and school-aged children. She is a research assistant affiliated with the University of Linköping and her clinical and research interests include bilingual children's language development and how to create equal possibilities for children to gain sufficient language skills for school success.
