Speakers:
Prof Dorothy Bishop, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Dr Courtenay Norbury, Reader in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London
Prof Gina Conti-Ramsden, Professor of Child Language and Learning, University of Manchester
Prof Margaret Snowling, Department of Psychology, University of York
Awareness of language impairment, where children have specific difficulties in learning to talk, is much lower than that of dyslexia. Top UK language disorder researchers came to the SMC to discuss the issue and answer journalists’ questions.