Speaker
Courtenay Norbury
Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communication at Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.
Biography
Courtenay Norbury is Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communication at Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. She is the Director of the Literacy, Language and Communication (LiLaC) Lab (www.lilac-lab.org) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She obtained her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, working with Professor Dorothy Bishop on the overlapping language profiles that characterise autism and developmental language disorder. Professor Norbury’s current research focuses on language disorders and how language interacts with other aspects of social and cognitive development. She leads SCALES, a population study of language development and disorder from school entry through secondary school. She is also a founding member of the RADLD campaign (https://radld.org/).