Prof Courtenay Norbury Profile picture
Psychology Professor (and speech-language therapist) specialising in #devlangdis
Dec 18, 2020 24 tweets 11 min read
a little thread of stuff that has inspired my thinking this year. 1/ This paper by Abenavoli was actually pub. in 2019, but I didn’t see it til Jan. My view is that improving outcomes for #devlangdis #DLD requires improved early years provision. However, even for the best programmes, positive effects fade out over time.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-67…
May 29, 2020 25 tweets 6 min read
our @PALS_SCALES paper showing language, but not general non-verbal cognitive ability, longitudinally predicts emotion recognition from face & voice cues has finally been published: peerj.com/articles/9118/ 1/ This is fabulous work led by @SarahGriff90 who has shown amazing persistence and resilience in what has been the most dispiriting journey to publication in my working life. 2/