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Louise Miller Guron was a Intra-European Fellowship Holder, funded by the EU Framework 6 (Marie Curie Foundation). Her project looked at auditory processing skills, phonological awareness and literacy development in monolingual and bilingual Swedish children. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Goteburg, Sweden, her topic was dyslexia assessment in multilinguals. Louise has also developed a novel test of reading, the Wordchains test, which has been published and standardised in English and Swedish. Her current research interests are the role of auditory processing skills in Swedish monolingual and bilingual reading, the interactions between auditory processing skills and phonological skills, and the development of rapid automatised naming skills in monolinguals and multi-linguals.
Carol Johnson is the Research Associate on the PPP Healthcare Trust study Phonological Skills, Vocabulary Development and Reading Development in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants. Prior to taking up this research position, Carol was a Speech and Language Therapist in the Cambridge area for many years. She has a Masters Degree in Human Communication from University College London. Her current research interests are the role of vocabulary and language in deaf children's reading, the development of phonological processing skills in deaf children, and the ways in which reading development can be supported in deaf children via linguistic and phonological games and activities. Carol now works at the Emmeline Centre at Addenbrookes Hospital.
Fiona Kyle was a ESRC Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Holder. Her project studied the correlates and predictors of literacy in young deaf children. She did her Ph.D. work at Royal Holloway College, University of London, following a first degree at Sussex University. Prior to beginning her Ph.D. work, she was a research assistant on a project exploring memory development in children and a project on adoption. Her research interests focus on developmental patterns of literacy acquisition in deaf children, the cognitive abilities important for emerging literacy in the deaf, and the skills that enable some deaf children to become comparatively good readers. Dr Kyle is now a Research Fellow at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre based in UCL.
Jennifer Thomson was a Research Associate on the ESRC study Rhythmic Timing and Dyslexia: A Causal Connection? and a Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. She received her PhD from University College London in 2004, her topic was phonological representations in dyslexia. She is a trained Speech and Language Therapist and practised in Conwy and Denbighshire prior to returning to academic study. Her first degree was from the University of Sheffield. Her current research interests are auditory processing skills in children with developmental language disorders, the neural signatures for basic auditory processing (ERP - the N100 and MMN), and phonological representation in typical and atypical development. Dr Thomson is now a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Danielle Gerson was a Research Assistant on the ESRC study Rhythmic Timing and Dyslexia: A Causal Connection? Prior to joining the centre she worked as an Assistant Psychologist with adults with learning disabilities in Dudley. She received her BSc in Psychology from the University of Birmingham in July 2005. Her previous (unpublished) research related to adults with learning disabilities: facial emotion recognition and perceptions of anger, including a comparison between informant-reported and self-reported anger levels.