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James Law studied Linguistics, practicing as a speech and language therapist in the UK for 10 years. Having received over £5m in research grant funding, his main focus has been on children's language development over time and the science underpinning interventions to ameliorate developmental language disorders.
Cristina McKean is a Speech and Language Therapist and Senior Lecturer in Speech Pathology at Newcastle University, UK. She is Honorary Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Adjunct Fellow at the Menzies Institute Griffith University, and Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. Her research aims to understand individual differences in child language development, the drivers and processes of developmental change and the effects of interventions and service delivery models on children's trajectories.
Elin Thordardottir, a certified Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist, conducts research and teaches in Canada as Professor at McGill University, and in Iceland, at the Academy of Reykjavik and the University of Iceland, allowing her to study typical language development and impairment in monolingual, bi-and multilingual children in distinct linguistic environments and with a strong cross-linguistic focus. She has authored a number of clinical language measures in Icelandic and French. |
