Biography and Enabling activity
Education:
1991 BA Honours Psychology. University of Manchester, UK (1990 ERASMUS scholarship to University of Barcelona, Spain)
1998 PhD. University of Bristol, UK. E.S.R.C. Studentship Thesis ‘The development of discourse cohesion in BSL narratives’.
Employment:
2022- Professor, UOC, Open University Catalonia
2019- City University Internal Coach
2017 – 20 PhD programme director – SHS, CUL
2012-13 – Assistant Associate Dean (Research). CUL.
2010 – Visiting professor: Structures Formelles du Langage UMR 7023 (CNRS - Université Paris 8).
2005 – Deputy Director ESRC research centre DCAL, UCL, UK,
2001 - Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (2003), Reader (2006), Professor (2008) City, University of London (CUL)
1998-2001 Research fellow, Linguistics UCL, UK.
1997-1998 Lecturer, Deaf Studies University of Bristol, UK
Professional Memberships and Activities:
Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) Review panel member (2023 – 2025).
Marie Curie Postdoctoral selection committee University of Salamanca, Spain.
Selection Committees Serra Húnter Programme
Research degree programme evaluator. Croatian Science Foundation.
Member of European COST program Bi-SLI: Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: http://www.bi-sli.org/
Mentor for Early Career PIs (City University London, 2013-, Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL, 9.12.09).
Interview panel CASS business school 11.2.16.
Executive Board International Association for Child Language Executive (IASCL) (2005-2011)
(2021-). Treasurer.
ESRC Peer Review College (2010-)
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) (2008-) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2002-)
Science and innovation network (China) at UCL
Editorial Board: Journal of Clinical Medicine ~ Journal of Gesture studies ~ Journal of Child Language ~ Journal of Deaf Studies and Education ~ Language Interaction and Acquisition ~ Frontiers in Language Sciences
Grant reviewer for: Hong Kong Early Career Scheme ~ Medical Research Council (UK) ~ UK Research and Innovation fellowships ~ National Institute for Health Research (UK) ~ British Academy ~ Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ~ The Leverhulme Trust ~ The Royal Society ~ Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ~ Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID)~Polish National Science Centre ~ Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) ~ Dutch Science foundation (NWO) ~ European Science Foundation (ESF) ~ National Science Foundation (NSF) USA ~ Priority Research Grants Program for Gallaudet University Research Institute (GRI), USA ~ Research Grants Council Hong Kong ~ Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) ~ Agence Nationale Recherche (ANR), France ~ L’Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) ~ Swedish Science Foundation ~ Hong Kong research council ~ The MacArthur Fellows Program (USA) ~ Fulbright grants ~ National Institute of Health (NIH) USA ~ Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation ~ Romanian Science Foundation ~ Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ~ Czechoslovakian Science Foundation ~ Canon Foundation for research in Europe ~ Hungarian Scientific Research Fund ~Israel Science Foundation ~ Research Council KULeuven ~ Recercaixa (Catalonia)
Journal Reviewer for: Journal of Clinical Medicine ~ PLOS ONE ~ Developmental Psychology ~ Child Development ~ Brain ~ Experimental Child Psychology ~ Human Development ~ Language Learning & Development ~ Behavioral and Brain Functions ~ Autism ~ Brain and Language ~ Mind and Language ~ First Language ~ Journal of Child Language ~ Cognition ~ Journal of Language and Cognitive Processes ~ International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism ~ Research in Developmental Disabilities ~ Bilingualism, Language & Cognition ~ European Journal of Developmental Psychology ~ Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry ~ Journal of Memory & Language ~ International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders ~ European Journal of Psychology ~ Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica ~ International Journal of Psychology ~ Learning & Individual Differences ~ Applied Psycholinguistics ~ Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education ~ British Journal of Developmental Psychology ~ Journal of Sign Language & Linguistics ~ Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics ~ Cambridge University Press ~ Infancia y Aprendizaje ~ Language Acquisition ~ Ear and Hearing.
Organisation of scholarly events: International Network on Sign language as Second Language Learning funded by Leverhulme (Barcelona, Lund, Utrecht, Berlin) 2016-18). Symposium organiser with N. Botting. The relationship between EF and language; with F. Genesee Early experiences and phonological Working Memory, with M. Coene, CI and language development IASCL (Lyon) 17.7.17. Symposium organiser. Narrative development across languages and modalities. AEAL 7.9.16 (Palma Mallorca). Symposium organiser with A. Morgernstern. The developmental interactions between gestures, words and signs. IASCL (Amsterdam). 6.7.14. ~ Symposium organiser: L2 acquisition of sign languages. EUROSLA University of Amsterdam. 29.8.13 ~ Summer school teacher. Language acquisition, change and evolution. Humbolt University, Berlin 8-18.8.13 ~ Symposium organiser: Symposium organiser: Symposium organiser: The spontaneous representational gestures of pre-schoolers: Comparison across culture and language. ISGS conference. Univ. Lund. 16.7.12 ~ Symposium organiser Links Between Language And Social-Cognitive Development: Insights From Deafness. IASCL conference, University of Quebec 20.7.2011Symposium organiser: Links Between Language And Social-Cognitive Development: Insights From Deafness. IASCL conference, University of Quebec 20.7.2011 ~ Symposium organiser: Roots of sign language and gesture development 26.7.2010, Conventionalisation of space in gesture and signed languages 25.7.2010 International Society for Gesture Studies conference, Frankfurt (Oder) Germany ~ Coordinator Sign Language development special symposium. TISLR. University of Purdue, USA. 30.10.2009 ~ Lead researcher on the unsuccessful ESF application EuroBabel comprising 15 European and N. American Universities, 1.5.2008 ~ Coordinator ESF exploratory workshop: Gesture and sign language: where do you draw the line? Rome CNR, 6-7.12.2007 ~ Coordinator BPS (developmental section) symposium: Deafness, cognition and language: developmental perspectives. Dept. Psychology. University of Plymouth. 31.8.2007 ~ Coordinator Social Science week Baby signing debate UCL 17.3.2007 ~ Coordinator Euro frog. Workshop on the analysis of Frog Story in different sign languages. DCAL, UCL funded by the ESRC festival of social science. 16.3.2007 ~ Coordinator ESRC seminar series. Sign language and gesture. City University London, 3-4.1.07; 5-6.4.2007; 7.6.08 ~ Coordinator Theory of Mind workshop in atypical populations. City University. 29.3.2006 ~ Scientific and Organising committee Child Language Seminar (CLS) 1999 and 2010. City University London ~ Coordinator workshop entitled Sign language narrative development: cross-linguistic comparisons’ at the 7th Theoretical Issues in Signed Language Research (TISLR) conference, Amsterdam, July 2000 with Isabel Hub Faria (Lisbon), Jill Morford (New Mexico) and Dan Slobin (Berkeley) ~ Member of Sign on Europe project. University of Bristol (1997).
Fellowships, travel grants and awards: DCAL most significant research contribution to Deaf studies award at RAD’s 175th Birthday Honours Awards Ceremony (2016) ~ Vice President nomination for the International Association for the Study of Child Language (2010) ~ Shortlist Organisational Achievement of the Year (DCAL) Signature (CACDP) Annual Awards 12.11.09 and 3.11.12 ~ British Council/Dutch Science foundation academic exchange award (2005), European Bureau of Lesser used languages consultant – Catalan speakers in Alghero (1999) Visiting fellowship to University of Lisbon and Deaf residential school Portugal through EU Alpha project (1997), PhD summer school in Language Acquisition. Denmark. 13.8.1997, Fellowship through EU to CNR Rome (1997), PhD ESRC studentship ESRC (1994-1998), Nicaragua fieldwork visit ESRC scholarship (1994), ERASMUS scholarship University of Barcelona (1991-1992)
Research questions
Language acquisition in deaf and hearing children
What explains the variability in spoken language development of children with a Cochlear Implant?
How does being a looked after child (LAC) influence language and cogntive development?
How are developing ideas mapped onto developing linguistic structures in young signing children?
How does early exposure to signed languages impact on language and cognition in typical and atypical contexts?
Psycholinguistic studies of sign language
How is sign language grammar mapped onto physical space? How are signed languages comprehended?
How is meaning derived during on-line signed language viewing? How do hearing adults learn a sign language as a L2?
Developmental disorders of language
How do impairments in language and cognition affect language development? What explains the patterns of spoken language errors in deaf children’s language development?
What are the profiles of language impairment in deaf signing children?
Typical and atypical development of Theory of Mind and Executive Functions
(EF) What is the contribution of language/environment to the development of ToM and EF?
Co-speech gesture in adults and children
How do gesture and language co-exist in the cognitive system?
How robust is gesture in cases of language breakdown and impairment? What are the roots of co-speech gesture in sign language?
Research funding
(2024-2027) UOC PhD scholarship funding
(2023-2026). Senior advisor ESRC Future Leaders Claire Monroy £297,000
(2022-2024). Senior Mentor Margarita Salas international post-doctoral training award Mario Figueroa González (UAB). €126,000
(2020-2023). P.I. National Institute of Health Research. Early Parent Interaction in Deafness. Applicants: Curtin, Herman & Morgan £250,995
(2018). Collaborator. Communication interventions. University of Sheffield Alumni fund with Dr. Danielle Mathews. £50,000.
(2016-2019). PI. Sign language learning in hearing adults. Leverhulme, £120,000
(2017). Collaborator. Play based learning for deaf children. Erasmus plus. €126,000
(2017). Collaborator. Early communication interventions with pre-term infants. With Ramiro Joly-Mascheroni. Research & Enterprise Impact prize. £15,000.
(2015-2016). PI. ESRC Follow on grant. Assessment portal. £100,000.
(2011-2015). Co-PI ESRC DCAL. £4.5 million. Mid-term review.
(2014-2015). Senior Mentor Fulbright fellowship Jenny Lu (Wellesley College, Boston, US). $50,000
(2014). Collaborator. Audiovisual) integration. With Dr. Eliot Freeman. Research & Enterprise Impact prize. £10,000.
(2012). Senior advisor UCL Bogue fellowship Dr. Tanya Denmark. £5000
(2012). Mentor. Newton Fellowship to US young scientist. Young scientist did not take up placement. £100,000
(2012). Organiser. Festival of Science debate: Executive Functions – ESRC. £2000
(2011). Organiser. Festival of Science debate and workshops: Bilingualism – ESRC. £2000
(2011-2014). Senior Scientist advisor. Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship. For Dr. W. Mann. €245,000
(2011-2012). Co-PI. Dunhill Medical Trust. Gesture use in people with aphasia. £70,000.
(2008-2011). Mentor. City University London post-doctoral fellowship. For Dr. W. Mann. £200,000
(2008-2011). Mentor. Leverhulme post-doctoral Early career fellowship. For Dr. C. Marshall. £250,000
(2005-2010). Co-PI ESRC DCAL. £3.4 million. Research Centres are major investments in one or more of the ESRC's priority themes. They are funded for an initial period of ten years, subject to a satisfactory mid-term review.
(2007). Host for the ESRC – SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellows (Gaurav Mathur). £2000
(2006-2009). PI. ESRC Sign Segmentation. £330,000
(2007-2008). – PI. ESF exploratory workshop €14,000
(2007-2008). – PI. ESRC research seminar series: sign language and gestures overlaps £15,000
(2002-2003). PI. ESRC Sign language acquisition £45,000
(2008). Organiser. Festival of Science debate and workshops – ESRC. £2000
(2007). Organiser. Festival of Science debate and workshops – ESRC. £2000
(2007). Co-PI. Aphasia and gesture: methods. With Lucy Dipper & Naomi Cocks. CUL pump priming £4800
(2007). Co-PI. SLI and gesture. With Nicola Botting & Sotaro Kita. CUL pump priming. £5000
(2006). Organiser. Research feedback workshop. City University KT. £1500
(2006). Co-PI. Aphasia and gesture. With Naomi Cocks. CUL pump priming. £5000
(2005). PI. Nonsense sign repetition. With Chloe Marshall. CUL pump priming. £5000
(2002). PI. Sign language development. With Bencie Woll and Isabelle. Barriere. CUL pump priming. £5000.
Teaching
Teaching and effective learning for students are central in all of my work. I am committed to making the learning experience optimal. I have a wide range of teaching experiences, curriculum development and management of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Teaching roles:
Coaching Professional level 5. UK Government Institute For Apprenticeships And Technical Education (IFATE) https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org
Member: The European Mentoring and Coaching Council: UK (EMCC) https://emccuk.org/ , The Association for Coaching , The International Coach Federation
Quality control: Lecture interview panel (chair/president) Psychology Autonomous University of Barcelona 2023; PhD graduate programme evaluator. Zagreb University. 2019, Professorship panel member. University of Barcelona Psychology 2019, Sara Hunter selection panel. University of Girona, Autonomous University of Barcelona 2019
Visiting professor delivering courses on language and cognitive development: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Edinburgh, Humboldt University Berlin, University of Paris 8, University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Autonoma University Barcelona, Trinity College Dublin, New York University in London, University of Amsterdam, University of Salamanca, University of Seville, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, University of Bergen, Norway, University of Oviedo, Spain; University of Hong Kong, University of Colorado.
PhD program director School of Health Sciences, CUL. 2017-
MSc program director Speech, Language and Communication Special Needs
Post-doctoral research coaching City University London 2015-
Development of Joint professional practice MSc Unit for SLTs and Teachers. Course materials and curriculum for Language Learning and Development module. City University and Institute of Education, London 2002-
Chair Language and Communication Science Ethics board
Module Leader Psychology and Language Sciences (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Speech and Language Therapists)
Module leader Final year dissertation and Evidence Based Practice (4th year SLT undergraduate)
Member of Department’s Professional Studies and Programme Management Committees. Member of Department’s Strategy & Policy group,
Undergraduate admissions tutor and member of School’s admissions policy group 2002-2005;
Chair of Departmental Sign Language and Deaf Studies research group;
PhD student supervisor and mentor for The Health Foundation Nursing and Allied Health Professionals,
Honorary Senior researcher Centre for Human Communication (UCL) 2006- and Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics (UCL) 1998-
External examiner: University of Manchester Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy (2005-2009); National University of Ireland Galway Speech and Language Therapy (2010- 2014); Strathclyde University Speech and Language Therapy (2010-2014), Leeds Becket (2016-20), Trinity University Dublin (2018-21). Birmingham City University MSc Speech Therapy (2021-), Plymouth Marjon University Speech and Language Therapy and Special CPD courses (2022-), Manchester Metropolitan University Speech and Language Therapy and Special CPD courses (2022-)
Lectures to MSc Neuroscience language and Communication 'deafness option' UCL. Visiting lecturer – sign language linguistics. University of Reading. 2003-2005 Lecturer Sign language Sociolinguistics. Preston polytechnic. 1997.
Contribute distance learning module on sign Language Acquisition. University of Manchester, Deaf Education MSc programme. 1997
Research students Supervision:
MSc/MRes (from 2003-) Naime Pekan - Parent child interaction and deafness (2021) ~ Courtney Wilson – Parent child Interaction in children with Cochlear Implants (2019) ~ Lova Green – ToM and deaf narratives (2018) ~ Gemma Knight - CI and language (MRes 2018) ~ Martina Curtin - Early communication and deafness (MRes 2017) ~ Janet Bilborough, Emanuela Breglia - Gestures and sign (2017) ~ Nika Yarahmadi –Autism and SES (2015) ~ Ahlem Birem – EF and language (2014) ~ Katie Wyatt, Debbie Houston – Early sign language development in deaf children of hearing parents (2014, 2013) ~ Sabrina Anderson – Ushers signing (UCL, 2012) ~ Prya Shah – Bilingualism and ToM (2011) ~ Diana Grajevskyte – Theory of Mind development (2010) ~ Georgia Orfanidou - Working Memory Assessment of Greek children with dyslexia (2009-) ~ Sarah Peaford - Cornelia de Lang syndrome (2007-) ~ Francesca Pinto – Cochlear implant use in deaf adults (2006) ~ Vikki Lambadi – Psycholinguistic profiling of Greek deaf children (2005) ~ Elisabeth Roche – language therapy with deaf children (2004) ~ Daniella Bakker – early signing in deaf children (2003) ~ Helen Stoneham – early signing case study (2003) ~ Pamela Dennis – (2002) – Early sign language development
PhD students
Gabrielle Sharpe (start 2021). Emotion regulation and deafness
Martina Curtin (start 2020). Deaf child-parent interaction. NIHR CDRF
Sevil Savi-Karayol (start 2019). Looked after children and language development
Kathryn Mason (with Chloe Marshall IoE). Deaf children’s EF development: impact of training Completed 2017
Ciara Kelly (with Danielle Mathews, Univ. Sheffield). Deaf children’s cognitive development. 2011-2018. Completed.
Gerardo Ortega. Psycholinguistic studies of signed languages. Completed 2013. Now MPI, Nijmegen.
Shyamani Hettiarachchi. Language impairment in Tamil speakers. Completed June 2009. Now SLT in Sri Lanka.
Isabel de Los Reyes. Sign language comprehension. Supervision during her Marie Curie visit to City University. Completed 2005. Now teaches university of Seville.
PhDs examined
University of Cambridge (2022), University of Queensland, AUS (2022), Barcelona Autonomous University (UAB) (2021); University of Antwerp (2018); University of Salamanca, Spain (2018); University of Leiden, Netherlands (2018), Copenhagen University (2014), Malta University (2014), Cuenca University, Spain (2014), University of Northumbria (2012), University of Barcelona (2011; 2015), University of Paris 8 (2011), UCL (2011), Sheffield University (2009), University of Cambridge (2008), University of Gothenburg (2007), City University London (2003, 2005, 2018), University of Seville (2005; 2013), University of Vigo, Spain (2003).
Research Talks: Conference and Invited
2023
· Invited speaker. Executive Functions and deafness. AG Bell Seminar. 5.5.23
· Keynote. Early communication and the development of theory of mind in deaf children. Workshop on early intervention. University of Valladolid. 25.2.23
2022
· Keynote. Early communication and Theory of Mind. AG Bell Global Symposium Theory of Mind, 1000 people online in 47 countries. 30.6.22
· Keynote. Neuro-cognitive development of deaf children. International Workshop on Advances in Audiology, University of Salamanca. 19.5.22
· Invited speaker. Variability on Language development. E-health seminar UOC. 11.5.22
2021
· Conference talk. The communication of deaf infants with hearing parents (IASCL symposium). 20.7.21.
· Invited speaker. Theory of Mind and deafness. AG Bell. Madrid. 7.5.21
· Invited speaker. Executive Functions and DLD. Creda Jordi Perello, Barcelona. (In Catalan) 12.2.21
2020
· Invited speaker UAM workshop DLD in deaf children. (in Spanish) 4.5.20
· Keynote. Jornadas audiologia Salamanca. Univ. Salamanca. 28.5.20
2019
· Keynote. Access to language and cognitive development. Teaching Deaf Learners (TDL2019). Haarlem, Netherlands 7.11.19
· Invited Speaker. Early communication and cochlear implant. University College London. 18.7.19
· Invited Speaker. Early communication and cognitive development. University of Stockholm, Sweden. 17.5.19
· Invited Speaker. Executive Functions in the classroom. BATOD Conference. Nottingham. 22.3.19
2018
· Invited speaker. Language, interaction and deafness (in Spanish). Jornada Discapacidad Auditiva UCLM, Spain. 10.12.18
· Invited speaker. Language, interaction and deafness (in Catalan). University of Balearic Islands, Mallorca. Spain. 1.11.18
· Invited speaker. Inter-subjectivity as an explanation for EF and ToM delays in deaf children. University of Leiden. 31.10.18
· Invited speaker. Linking early language experiences and language learning outcomes. University of Edinburgh. 21.10.18.
· Invited speaker, with F. Genesee. Linking early language experiences and language learning outcomes: evidence from deaf and adopted children. UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26.3.18
Before 2018
2017
• Invited speaker. Comunicación en el niño sordo y Teoría de la Mente. (in Spanish). XXIII Congreso Sociedad Médica Española de Foniatría. La Laboral, Gijon. 510.17. • Conference talks. Symposiums Organiser. The relationship between EF and language, with N. Botting. Early experiences and phonological Working Memory, with F. Genesee. CI and language development with M. Coene. IASCL (Lyon) 17.7.17. • Invited speaker. Tuning in to other people: connectedness, conversation and context. (in Spanish). 11th International Workshop on Advances in Audiology, Salamanca, 8.6.17 • Invited speaker. Tuning in to other people: connectedness, conversation and context. British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians Annual Conference. Latimer Place, UK. 16.3.17 • Invited speaker. Theory of Mind: connectedness, conversation and context. Astangu Vocational Rehabilitation Centre. Tallinn, Estonia. 14.3.17
2016
• Invited speaker. Tuning in to other people: connectedness, conversation and context. Ear Foundation. Virtual Conference. 9.12.16 • Invited speaker. The importance of language for executive functions development. (in Spanish). International University Catalunya (UIC). 19.12.16 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 19 • Conference talk. Symposium Organiser. English narrative development in deaf children (in Spanish). Spanish Association for Language Acquisition Research. University of Palma Mallorca (UIB). 8.9.16 • Keynote. Two talks on Theory of Mind and EF development. 12th APCD/28th ANZCED Conference 2016. Christchurch New Zealand. 7.7.16 • Invited speaker. Language and Cognitive development. University of Bergen (Statped), Norway. 2.5.16 • Invited speaker. EF en niños sordos (in Spanish). Autonomous University Madrid, 19.4.16 • Keynote. EF and deaf children. Amsterdam Free University. Hearing and Language centre. 3.3.16 • Invited speaker. EF and deaf children. Lucid ESRC centre, Univ. Manchester. 1.3.16. • Invited speaker. EF and deaf children. Online talk to VL2 centre. 29.1.16 http://vl2students.weebly.com/vl2-meeting-and-events.html
2015
• Invited speaker. Porque los niños necesitan lenguaje? (in Spanish). University of Vigo, Spain. 9.10.15 • Keynote. Investigating sign language development, delay and disorder in deaf children. 22nd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2015). 6.7.15 http://www.iced2015.com/en/content.php?MG=3&Mid=76&sub1=1 • Invited speaker. Theory of mind in deaf pre-schoolers. Ear Foundation. Nottingham. 12.6.15 http://www.earfoundation.org.uk/education/articles/772 • Invited speaker. EF and deaf children. University Roehampton. 18.3.15 • Invited speaker. Signs and gestures. Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). 14.3.15 • Invited speaker (plenary) SLI in sign Language. Utrecht University. 6.2.15. http://www.nsdsk.nl/over_nsdsk/afdelingen/onderzoek_ontwikkeling/taalstaal_congre s_6_februari_2015/
2014
• Invited speaker (plenary). Signs and gestures. Leuvan University Mamud. 21.11.14. https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/midi/events/mamud • Invited speaker. Trastornos del lenguaje y FE (In Spanish). UOC Madrid. 27.9.14. • Conference talk. Age of Acquisition and Phonological development. IASCL (Amsterdam). 8.7.14. • Symposium organiser with A.Morgernstern. The developmental interactions between gestures, words and signs. IASCL (Amsterdam). 6.7.14. 2014 • Invited speaker. Comparing co-speech gestures and sign languages in children and adults. International Workshop gesture-sign interface. Sorbonne University Paris. 4.4.2014. http://www.ru.nl/gsl/@931674/pagina/ Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 20 • Invited speaker (plenary). Social cognition for deaf learners. 1st International Conference on Teaching Deaf Learners, 19.3.14. http://www.kentalis.nl/TeachingDeaf-Learners/ Amsterdam • Invited speaker. Signed language acquisition as a second language. Radbout University Nijmegen. 31.1.2014. http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/events/slc/
2013
• Invited speaker. Social cognition and communication. 11.11.14. UCL. • Invited speaker. Els trastorns del llenguatge: què podem aprendre de les llengües • de signes (in Catalan). 1 jornada sobre dificultats d'aprenentatge. Universitat Oberta de Catalunyahttp://www.uoc.edu/portal/ca/symposia/dificultats_aprenentatge2013/index .html Barcelona 5.10.13 • Invited speaker. Arriving at conventions in language acquisition: perspectives from child signers. From Hand to Mouth A dialogue between signed and spoken languages. University of Zurich. 7.9.13. http://www.handtomouth.uzh.ch/social/flyerconferencedinnerde.pdf • Conference Symposium. Second language learning in the visual modality: from phonology to narratives. EuroSLA23, Amsterdam, 28.8.13 • Conference talk. Picture naming in deaf children from deaf and hearing families compared with spontaneous gestures produced by hearing children: The influence of iconicity. Child Language Seminar. University of Manchester. 25.5.13 • Invited speaker (plenary). The special nature of sign language acquisition. Empirical approaches to multi-modality and to language variation (aflico 5). University of Lille 15.5.13 • Invited speaker. ¿El bilingüismo es bueno para los niños pero no si eres sordo? (in Spanish). University Autonoma Madrid. 24.4.13 • Invited speaker. Les conseqüències de la sordesa en el llenguatge i la comunicació dels infants. In Catalan. (Consequences for language and communication of deafness). University of Girona, 5.4.13. http://diobma.udg.edu/handle/10256.1/2990 • Invited speaker (Keynote). What do sign language developmental disorders look like? 1st Symposium on Sign Language Acquisition Catholic University of Lisbon. 23.3.13. http://www.ics.lisboa.ucp.pt/site/custom/template/ucptpl_fac.asp?SSPAGEID=934&lan g=1&artigo=365&artigoID=368 • Round table discussant (Jam Session 1: Cognitive and language development in deaf children. 1st Symposium on Sign Language Acquisition Catholic University of Lisbon. 21.3.13. • Invited speaker (plenary). Cognition and language influences on deaf children’s learning. 3rd International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 30.1.13
2012
• Invited speaker. Language delay – does it matter? Symposium. 37th Boston University Conference on language development 2.11.12 • Invited speaker (plenary). Language and cognition in deaf children. Nordic conference on bilingual issues concerning deaf children. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 5.9.12 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 21 • Conference talk (symposium organiser). The spontaneous representational gestures of pre-schoolers: Comparison across culture and language. ISGS conference. Univ. Lund. 16.7.12 • Invited speaker. Discussant for Multimodality and Language Learning Workshop MPI, Nijmegen. 14.6.12. • Invited speaker. Language & Theory of Mind reasoning: seminar in honour of Michael Siegal. University of Sheffield. 18.5.12. http://shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/michael-siegal • Invited speaker. El futur de les llengües de signes es a mans dels nadons (In the hands of babes: the future of sign languages). In Catalan. l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona. 21.3.12 • Invited speaker. Iconicity and Language Development. Birkbeck college. 27.3.2012. • Conference talk. Iconicity and Language Development. Psycholinguistics in the SouthEast (PsyLingSE). UCL. 7.3.12 • Invited speaker. The origins of Theory of Mind reasoning. University of Lancaster. 15.2.12. • Invited speaker. Language delay affects Theory of Mind reasoning in non-verbal tasks. University of Athens. 27.1.12. Video: http://www.blod.gr/lectures/Pages/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=370
2011
• Invited speaker. How deaf children learn to understand other's minds. (in French/English). Hommage à Cyril Courtin. University of Paris 8. 9.12.11 http://cis.gouv.fr/spip.php?article4184. • Invited speaker. Language delay affects Theory of Mind reasoning in non-verbal tasks. University of East London. 21.11.2011. • Invited speaker. Bilingualism in deaf children. Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. 21.11.2011. • Invited discussant. Working Together to Support Families of Young Children with Cochlear Implants Symposium UCL. 9.11.11. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cslir/events/CI_Symposium2012 • Invited speaker. Theory of Mind and language. University of Westminster. 18.10.2011. • Conference talk (symposium organiser). The Importance of Access to Language: Evidence from Intention Attribution and ToM Reasoning in Deaf Infants. IASCL conference, University of Quebec, Montreal 20.7.2011. • Conference talk (symposium organiser). Deaf children with Impairments in Sign Language Acquisition: New Research Findings. Conference on Speech, Language and Communication Needs in older children and young people. City University London. 16.6.2011. • Invited speaker. Early communication in families with deaf children. Trinity College Dublin. 30.5.2011. • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Psycholinguistic processes in using sign language. Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). 17.5.2011. • Invited speaker. In the hands of babes: the future of sign languages. SOAS festival on minority and endangered languages. SOAS. 9.5.2011. • Invited speaker. New Findings on Specific Language Impairment in Deaf Children Acquiring British Sign Language. British Association of Clinical Linguistics. Leeds Metropolitan University. 11.3.2011 • Invited speaker (plenary). Talking about boys, dogs and frogs in the visual modality: using narrative to study Deaf people’s extended sign language. German Linguistics Society. University of Gottingen. 23.2.11 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 22 • Invited speaker. On the origins of theory of mind: Conversational input and belief attribution in deaf and hearing infants. UCL. 17.1.2011.
2010
• Invited speaker (in Spanish). Origins of Theory of Mind. University of Seville. Spanish Science Foundation network on Sign Language Studies. 5.11.2010 • Invited speaker. Origins of Theory of Mind. Goldsmiths, University of London. 21.10.2010 • Conference talk. An evaluation of a parent led language intervention programme for deaf children. BPS developmental section. Goldmiths, University of London. 14.9.10 • Invited speaker (plenary). Contributions of sign language research to language acquisition. Spanish Association for Language Acquisition Research. University of Barcelona. 9.9.2010 • Conference talk. Types and forms of gestures produced by English speaking children on a naming task. International Society for Gesture Studies conference Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 26.7.2010 • Conference talk. Breaking into sign language: The gestural and visuo-spatial properties of classifier constructions in BSL aid their acquisition by adult hearing learners International Society for Gesture Studies conference Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 25.7.2010 • Invited speaker. Four lecture seminar series. Sign Language acquisition. University of Salamanca, Spain. (In Spanish). 30.6-2.7.2010. • Invited speaker. Deafness and child development. The Institute for young deaf children. Paris, France 1.7.2010 (In French) • Invited speaker. The relationship between gestures, signs and words. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France. 15.4.2010 • Invited speaker. Tom reasoning in typical and atypical development. Université Toulouse II, France. 24.3.10 • Invited speaker. Deafness, language and cognitive development. Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC). University of Amsterdam. 12.3.2010 • Invited speaker. Workshop on psycholinguistic factors involved in understanding sign language. Linguistics department. University of Amsterdam. 12.3.2010 • Invited speaker. Seeing language development. Basque center on Cognition, Brain and Language. San Sebastian, Spain. 27.2.2010 • Invited speaker. Contribution of language to development of Theory of Mind in deaf children. University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. (In Spanish). 26.2.2010. • Invited speaker. Four lecture seminar series. Sign Language acquisition. University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. (In Spanish). 23-26.2.2010. • Invited speaker. Workshop on psycholinguistic factors involved in understanding sign language. Structures Formelles du Langage UMR 7023 (CNRS - Université Paris 8). 19.1.2010. • Conference talk. Identifying Specific Language Impairments in Deaf children acquiring British Sign Language. UCL. COST conference “Let the children speak”. 22.1.2010.
2009
• Invited speaker. Language development and Theory of Mind. University of Edinburgh. 18.11.2009 • Invited speaker. Access to language and the development of Theory of Mind. University of Trieste. 31.10.2009 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 23 • Conference talk. Types and forms of gestures in hearing children on a naming task. Multimodality and development conference. University of Toulouse, France. 10.7.2009. • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Language development of deaf children. Summer school in Speech and Language Therapy. University of Oviedo, Spain. 29.6.09-3.7.09 • Invited Speaker. Theory of Mind and Deaf children. York Hospital Learning and Research centre. 3.6.2009. • Invited speaker. Electronic databases and child sign language: phonology. UCL workshop on database research. 30.4.2009. • Conference talk and symposium organiser. Sign language developmental impairments. Society for Research in Child Development. Denver, USA. 3.4.2009. • Invited speaker. Introduction to theory of mind research. ESRC. Festival of Social Science. City University London. 27.2.2009. • Invited speaker. Sign language development: universals. University of the Sorbonne. Paris. 12.1.09
2008
• Invited speaker. Sign language development: early interaction. University of Plymouth. 3.12.08 • Invited speaker. Deaf children’s acquisition of sign language. University of Oxford Brookes. 26.11.08 • Invited speaker. Deaf children’s Theory of Mind development. San Paulo Brazil. 21.8.08 • Invited plenary speaker. Sign language grammatical development in deaf children. Rotary club Deaf education conference. San Paulo Brazil. 19.8.08 • Conference talk. Non-sign repetition. Cognitive Linguistics conference. University of Brighton 5.8.2008. • Invited speaker. Deaf children’s language development. UCL summer school in Deafness, Cognition and Language. 29.7.2008 • Invited speaker. Transitions as cues for sign language segmentation. University of Connecticut, USA. SignTyp conference. 26.6.2008. • Conference talk. Similarities and differences between spoken and signed language phonology. Manchester phonology meeting. University of Manchester. 22.5.2008. • Invited speaker (in BSL). Theory of mind in deaf children of hearing parents. University of Limerick. 2.4.2008 • Invited speaker. Sign language acquisition. Centre for Deaf Studies. University College Dublin. 3.4.2008 • Invited speaker. Mentalising abilities in deaf children: parental strategies. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dept. sign language and linguistics. 28.1.2008
2007
• Workshop introduction as convenor. Gesture and sign interface. ESF workshop. CNR Rome. 6.12.2007 • Invited speaker. Sign language acquisition: experience and modality. UCL. 1.11.2007. • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Current research into sign language acquisition workshop. University of Barcelona. 22.9.2007. • Invited speaker. Sign Segmentation in BSL. University of Bristol. 1.9.2007. • Symposium introduction as convenor. Deafness, cognition and language: developmental perspectives. BPS (Developmental Section). Dept. Psychology. University of Plymouth. 31.8.2007 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 24 • Invited talk. Possible sign constraint and sign segmentation. MPI Nijmegen. 1.8.2007. • Conference talk. Transition from gesture to sign. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Chicago. 17.7.2007 • Sign language comprehension. World Federation of the Deaf Congress. Madrid. 16.7.2007 • Conference talk. Transition from gesture to sign. Amsterdam JPS conference 31.5.2007 • Gesture and language impairment. ESRC workshop sign, gesture and space. 17.5.2007 • Conference talk. Segmentation of sign languages. Workshop on Visual Prosody in Language Communication Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. 10.5.2007 • Sign segmentation. CUNY 2007. The Psycholinguistics of Signed and Spoken Languages special session. 29.3.2007 • Workshop introduction (in BSL). Euro frog. UCL. 16.3.2007 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). University of Seville. Spanish Science Foundation network on Sign Language Studies. New research on sign language comprehension. 8.2.2007. • Invited speaker. University of Manchester, BPS. Gesture workshop. The impact of aphasia on gesture comprehension: A pilot study. 19.1.2007.
2006
• Invited speaker. ESF workshop on Abstract language. UCL, Psychology dept. Abstract language and atypical populations. 28.11.2006. • Invited speaker. Univ Manchester Psychology dept. How do deaf children talk about motion events? 4.10.2006 • Invited speaker. ESF workshop on Sign Language Development and Assessment. University of Zurich, Switzerland. Talking about space in a visual-spatial language: does exposure to Sign Language offer Deaf Children a special developmental path? 15.9.2006 • Invited speaker. Univ Herts BPS workshop on Gesture. How do sign languages use gestures? 31.8.2006 • Invited speaker. Birmingham University Psychology dept. Talking about space in a visuo-spatial language: does exposure to sign language offer deaf children a special developmental path? 13.8.2006 • Conference talk. Non-sign repetition skills in deaf children. Child Language Seminar University of Newcastle. 20.7.2007 • Invited speaker. Opening introduction SLI workshop City University, Language and Communication Science. 17.7.2006 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). University of Barcelona, Dept of Psychology. Sign language acquisition. 2.7.2006 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). University of Barcelona, Psychology Dept. Theory of Mind and deafness. 1.7.2006 • Conference talk. Is SLI a domain-general or a language-specific deficit? A non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language may reveal the answer. Geneva LATSIS conference 23.1.2006
2005
• Invited speaker. UCL, Human Communication Science. Early sign language development: critical periods and abilities. 1.12.2005 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 25 • Invited speaker. St. Michielsgestel, The Netherlands. The early stage of sign language development: critical periods and abilities. 7.10.2005 • Invited speaker. Verb agreement workshop, LSA Institute, Harvard University, USA. The Development of Verb Agreement in British Sign Language: The Influence of Typology, Rules and Input. 6.8.2005. • Conference talk - symposium. IASCL, University of Berlin. How universal is early phonological development: a comparison of sign language and speech. 26.7.2005. • Conference talk - symposium. IASCL, University of Berlin. Perception, comprehension and production: critical abilities and periods. 26.7.2005. • Invited speaker (in BSL). Early signing workshop. City University, London. Early sign language development: what does that mistake mean? 28.6.2005. • Invited speaker. University of Bangor, Psychology dept. Language development and developmental impairments: insights from British Sign Language. 14.4.2005 • Organiser and speaker. Theory of Mind workshop. City University. Late exposure to sign language and non-fluent Theory of Mind abilities. 29.3.2005
2004
• Invited speaker. Homesign workshop. MPI, Nijmegen. Homesigns to sign in Nicaraguan Sign Language. 15.12.2004. • Invited speaker. Narrative in BSL. University of York, Language & Linguistics dept. 19.10.2004 • Invited speaker. University of Oxford, Experimental Psychology. Sign language acquisition and sign language impairment. 14.7.06. • Conference talk. Phonology conference, University of Manchester. Phonological processes in the early acquisition of British Sign Language. 23.6.2004. • Invited speaker. University of Manchester, Speech Sciences and Audiology. The creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language. 24.3.2004
2003
• Invited speaker. University of Colorado at Boulder, Speech Sciences. Clarifying the issues in classifier (and sign language) development. 7.11.2003. • Conference talk. BUCLD. Boston University, USA. Independent acquisition of classifiers and verb agreement in BSL. 31.10.2003. • Invited speaker. University of Southern Maine. Linguistics Dept. Early (but not really) development of BSL grammar. 22.10.2003. • Invited speaker. City University, London. Language and Communication Science. Early (but not really) development of BSL grammar. 8.10.2003. • Invited speaker. City University, London. Language and Communication Science. No Language then no Theory of Mind? Late sign learning deaf children. 2.10.2003. • Invited speaker. Four corners of Psycholinguistics workshop. MPI Nijmegen. Biology and behaviour: What do sign languages reveal? 1.9.2003. • Invited speaker. City University London, Psychology dept. seminar. The learning of British Sign Language by a Polyglot savant: iconicity. 6.8.2003. • Invited speaker. University of Reading, Linguistics and Clinical Science. The encoding of simultaneity in British Sign Language narratives. 4.6.2003. • Invited speaker. Verb workshop. UCL, Human Communication Science. Grammatical relations in the acquisition of British Sign Language. 30.5.2003. • Invited speaker. Sign language acquisition. University of Odense, Denmark. 17.1.2003 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 26 • Workshop Organiser and speaker. City University London. Sign phonology and Phonetics. 15.1.2003
2002
• Conference talk. BUCLD, University of Boston, USA. Grammatical relations in the acquisition of BSL. 2.11.2002 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Theory of Mind in Deaf children. University of Seville. 21.10.2002 • Conference talk- symposium. IASCL and SRCLD. University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Specific Sign Language Impairment: Deprivation or Disorder. 17.7.2002 • Conference talk. IASCL and SRCLD. University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Verbs & first argument structures in British Sign Language development. 19.7.2002 • Invited speaker. University of Hertfordshire. Applied Linguistics. Language against the odds: the learning of British Sign Language by a Polyglot savant. 29.6.2002 • Conference talk. Transcribing sign languages. LAGB special symposium on sign linguistics. 9.4.2002 • Conference talk. Sign language acquisition. LAGB special symposium on sign linguistics. 10.4.2002 • Invited speaker. City University Psychology department seminars. The learning of British Sign Language by a Polyglot savant: iconicity. 8.5.2002 • Workshop organizer. Using Signstream with BSL. University of Bristol. 22.2.2002
2001
• Workshop organizer (in International Sign). Using SignStream to analyze sign language. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 13-14.12.2001 • Conference talk. Child Language seminar, University of Hertfordshire. The emergence of lexical categories in British Sign Language (BSL). 6.7.2001. 2000 • Invited speaker. Sign language learning in a polyglot savant. University of Hertfordshire. 7.12.2000 • Symposium organiser. Sign language frog stories. TISLR 7, University of Amsterdam. San Sebastian, Spain, 26.7.2000 • Invited speaker. City University, London, Clinical Communications Dept. The effects of modality on British Sign Language development in an exceptional learner. 14.7.2000 • Invited speaker. University of Southern Maine, Linguistics Colloquium. The effects of modality on British Sign Language development in an exceptional learner. 27.4.2000 • Invited speaker. Body classifiers in BSL. Classifier workshop, San Diego Salk institute. 15.4.2000 • Conference talk. Organiser of Symposium on Atypical sign language. University of Amsterdam. TISLR 7. 1.7.2000
Before 2000
• Invited talk. Transcription issues in child sign language acquisition research. European Intersign meeting. City University London. 6.9.1999. • Conference talk. The development of verb agreement in BSL. Part of symposium on sign language acquisition. IASCL congress. University of San Sebastian. 12.7.1999 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 27 • Conference poster. TISLR 6. The Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Gallaudet University. Washington, DC, USA Language learning and modality in a polyglot savant. 12.11.1998 • Conference talk. Linguistic constraints in Homesigners. BUCLD. 6.10.1998. • Conference talk. Narrative development in British Sign Language. Child Language Seminar. University of Sheffield. 4.9.1998 • Conference talk. Bilingual narratives of hearing children of deaf adults. Bilingualism congress. University of Newcastle. 15.4.1998 • Conference talk. Translation of BSL to English. BAAL conference. University of Birmingham. 18.10.1997 • Invited speaker. Nicaraguan Sign Language research (in BSL). Manchester Polytechnic. 21.4.1997 • Invited speaker. Discourse cohesion in BSL. ESRC seminar series. University of Plymouth. 17.4.1997 • Conference talk. Learning to use referential space in sign language discourse. Univ. of Manchester. 1997 • Conference talk. Development of anaphoric mechanisms in British Sign Language. Child Language Seminar. University of Reading 1996 • Conference talk. Spatial anaphoric mechanisms in British Sign Language. University of Lancaster 1996 • Conference talk. Discourse organisation in a British Sign Language Narrative. University of Lisbon. 1996
Education:
1991 BA Honours Psychology. University of Manchester, UK (1990 ERASMUS scholarship to University of Barcelona, Spain)
1998 PhD. University of Bristol, UK. E.S.R.C. Studentship Thesis ‘The development of discourse cohesion in BSL narratives’.
Employment:
2022- Professor, UOC, Open University Catalonia
2019- City University Internal Coach
2017 – 20 PhD programme director – SHS, CUL
2012-13 – Assistant Associate Dean (Research). CUL.
2010 – Visiting professor: Structures Formelles du Langage UMR 7023 (CNRS - Université Paris 8).
2005 – Deputy Director ESRC research centre DCAL, UCL, UK,
2001 - Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (2003), Reader (2006), Professor (2008) City, University of London (CUL)
1998-2001 Research fellow, Linguistics UCL, UK.
1997-1998 Lecturer, Deaf Studies University of Bristol, UK
Professional Memberships and Activities:
Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) Review panel member (2023 – 2025).
Marie Curie Postdoctoral selection committee University of Salamanca, Spain.
Selection Committees Serra Húnter Programme
Research degree programme evaluator. Croatian Science Foundation.
Member of European COST program Bi-SLI: Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: http://www.bi-sli.org/
Mentor for Early Career PIs (City University London, 2013-, Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL, 9.12.09).
Interview panel CASS business school 11.2.16.
Executive Board International Association for Child Language Executive (IASCL) (2005-2011)
(2021-). Treasurer.
ESRC Peer Review College (2010-)
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) (2008-) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2002-)
Science and innovation network (China) at UCL
Editorial Board: Journal of Clinical Medicine ~ Journal of Gesture studies ~ Journal of Child Language ~ Journal of Deaf Studies and Education ~ Language Interaction and Acquisition ~ Frontiers in Language Sciences
Grant reviewer for: Hong Kong Early Career Scheme ~ Medical Research Council (UK) ~ UK Research and Innovation fellowships ~ National Institute for Health Research (UK) ~ British Academy ~ Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ~ The Leverhulme Trust ~ The Royal Society ~ Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ~ Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID)~Polish National Science Centre ~ Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) ~ Dutch Science foundation (NWO) ~ European Science Foundation (ESF) ~ National Science Foundation (NSF) USA ~ Priority Research Grants Program for Gallaudet University Research Institute (GRI), USA ~ Research Grants Council Hong Kong ~ Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) ~ Agence Nationale Recherche (ANR), France ~ L’Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) ~ Swedish Science Foundation ~ Hong Kong research council ~ The MacArthur Fellows Program (USA) ~ Fulbright grants ~ National Institute of Health (NIH) USA ~ Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation ~ Romanian Science Foundation ~ Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ~ Czechoslovakian Science Foundation ~ Canon Foundation for research in Europe ~ Hungarian Scientific Research Fund ~Israel Science Foundation ~ Research Council KULeuven ~ Recercaixa (Catalonia)
Journal Reviewer for: Journal of Clinical Medicine ~ PLOS ONE ~ Developmental Psychology ~ Child Development ~ Brain ~ Experimental Child Psychology ~ Human Development ~ Language Learning & Development ~ Behavioral and Brain Functions ~ Autism ~ Brain and Language ~ Mind and Language ~ First Language ~ Journal of Child Language ~ Cognition ~ Journal of Language and Cognitive Processes ~ International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism ~ Research in Developmental Disabilities ~ Bilingualism, Language & Cognition ~ European Journal of Developmental Psychology ~ Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry ~ Journal of Memory & Language ~ International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders ~ European Journal of Psychology ~ Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica ~ International Journal of Psychology ~ Learning & Individual Differences ~ Applied Psycholinguistics ~ Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education ~ British Journal of Developmental Psychology ~ Journal of Sign Language & Linguistics ~ Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics ~ Cambridge University Press ~ Infancia y Aprendizaje ~ Language Acquisition ~ Ear and Hearing.
Organisation of scholarly events: International Network on Sign language as Second Language Learning funded by Leverhulme (Barcelona, Lund, Utrecht, Berlin) 2016-18). Symposium organiser with N. Botting. The relationship between EF and language; with F. Genesee Early experiences and phonological Working Memory, with M. Coene, CI and language development IASCL (Lyon) 17.7.17. Symposium organiser. Narrative development across languages and modalities. AEAL 7.9.16 (Palma Mallorca). Symposium organiser with A. Morgernstern. The developmental interactions between gestures, words and signs. IASCL (Amsterdam). 6.7.14. ~ Symposium organiser: L2 acquisition of sign languages. EUROSLA University of Amsterdam. 29.8.13 ~ Summer school teacher. Language acquisition, change and evolution. Humbolt University, Berlin 8-18.8.13 ~ Symposium organiser: Symposium organiser: Symposium organiser: The spontaneous representational gestures of pre-schoolers: Comparison across culture and language. ISGS conference. Univ. Lund. 16.7.12 ~ Symposium organiser Links Between Language And Social-Cognitive Development: Insights From Deafness. IASCL conference, University of Quebec 20.7.2011Symposium organiser: Links Between Language And Social-Cognitive Development: Insights From Deafness. IASCL conference, University of Quebec 20.7.2011 ~ Symposium organiser: Roots of sign language and gesture development 26.7.2010, Conventionalisation of space in gesture and signed languages 25.7.2010 International Society for Gesture Studies conference, Frankfurt (Oder) Germany ~ Coordinator Sign Language development special symposium. TISLR. University of Purdue, USA. 30.10.2009 ~ Lead researcher on the unsuccessful ESF application EuroBabel comprising 15 European and N. American Universities, 1.5.2008 ~ Coordinator ESF exploratory workshop: Gesture and sign language: where do you draw the line? Rome CNR, 6-7.12.2007 ~ Coordinator BPS (developmental section) symposium: Deafness, cognition and language: developmental perspectives. Dept. Psychology. University of Plymouth. 31.8.2007 ~ Coordinator Social Science week Baby signing debate UCL 17.3.2007 ~ Coordinator Euro frog. Workshop on the analysis of Frog Story in different sign languages. DCAL, UCL funded by the ESRC festival of social science. 16.3.2007 ~ Coordinator ESRC seminar series. Sign language and gesture. City University London, 3-4.1.07; 5-6.4.2007; 7.6.08 ~ Coordinator Theory of Mind workshop in atypical populations. City University. 29.3.2006 ~ Scientific and Organising committee Child Language Seminar (CLS) 1999 and 2010. City University London ~ Coordinator workshop entitled Sign language narrative development: cross-linguistic comparisons’ at the 7th Theoretical Issues in Signed Language Research (TISLR) conference, Amsterdam, July 2000 with Isabel Hub Faria (Lisbon), Jill Morford (New Mexico) and Dan Slobin (Berkeley) ~ Member of Sign on Europe project. University of Bristol (1997).
Fellowships, travel grants and awards: DCAL most significant research contribution to Deaf studies award at RAD’s 175th Birthday Honours Awards Ceremony (2016) ~ Vice President nomination for the International Association for the Study of Child Language (2010) ~ Shortlist Organisational Achievement of the Year (DCAL) Signature (CACDP) Annual Awards 12.11.09 and 3.11.12 ~ British Council/Dutch Science foundation academic exchange award (2005), European Bureau of Lesser used languages consultant – Catalan speakers in Alghero (1999) Visiting fellowship to University of Lisbon and Deaf residential school Portugal through EU Alpha project (1997), PhD summer school in Language Acquisition. Denmark. 13.8.1997, Fellowship through EU to CNR Rome (1997), PhD ESRC studentship ESRC (1994-1998), Nicaragua fieldwork visit ESRC scholarship (1994), ERASMUS scholarship University of Barcelona (1991-1992)
Research questions
Language acquisition in deaf and hearing children
What explains the variability in spoken language development of children with a Cochlear Implant?
How does being a looked after child (LAC) influence language and cogntive development?
How are developing ideas mapped onto developing linguistic structures in young signing children?
How does early exposure to signed languages impact on language and cognition in typical and atypical contexts?
Psycholinguistic studies of sign language
How is sign language grammar mapped onto physical space? How are signed languages comprehended?
How is meaning derived during on-line signed language viewing? How do hearing adults learn a sign language as a L2?
Developmental disorders of language
How do impairments in language and cognition affect language development? What explains the patterns of spoken language errors in deaf children’s language development?
What are the profiles of language impairment in deaf signing children?
Typical and atypical development of Theory of Mind and Executive Functions
(EF) What is the contribution of language/environment to the development of ToM and EF?
Co-speech gesture in adults and children
How do gesture and language co-exist in the cognitive system?
How robust is gesture in cases of language breakdown and impairment? What are the roots of co-speech gesture in sign language?
Research funding
(2024-2027) UOC PhD scholarship funding
(2023-2026). Senior advisor ESRC Future Leaders Claire Monroy £297,000
(2022-2024). Senior Mentor Margarita Salas international post-doctoral training award Mario Figueroa González (UAB). €126,000
(2020-2023). P.I. National Institute of Health Research. Early Parent Interaction in Deafness. Applicants: Curtin, Herman & Morgan £250,995
(2018). Collaborator. Communication interventions. University of Sheffield Alumni fund with Dr. Danielle Mathews. £50,000.
(2016-2019). PI. Sign language learning in hearing adults. Leverhulme, £120,000
(2017). Collaborator. Play based learning for deaf children. Erasmus plus. €126,000
(2017). Collaborator. Early communication interventions with pre-term infants. With Ramiro Joly-Mascheroni. Research & Enterprise Impact prize. £15,000.
(2015-2016). PI. ESRC Follow on grant. Assessment portal. £100,000.
(2011-2015). Co-PI ESRC DCAL. £4.5 million. Mid-term review.
(2014-2015). Senior Mentor Fulbright fellowship Jenny Lu (Wellesley College, Boston, US). $50,000
(2014). Collaborator. Audiovisual) integration. With Dr. Eliot Freeman. Research & Enterprise Impact prize. £10,000.
(2012). Senior advisor UCL Bogue fellowship Dr. Tanya Denmark. £5000
(2012). Mentor. Newton Fellowship to US young scientist. Young scientist did not take up placement. £100,000
(2012). Organiser. Festival of Science debate: Executive Functions – ESRC. £2000
(2011). Organiser. Festival of Science debate and workshops: Bilingualism – ESRC. £2000
(2011-2014). Senior Scientist advisor. Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship. For Dr. W. Mann. €245,000
(2011-2012). Co-PI. Dunhill Medical Trust. Gesture use in people with aphasia. £70,000.
(2008-2011). Mentor. City University London post-doctoral fellowship. For Dr. W. Mann. £200,000
(2008-2011). Mentor. Leverhulme post-doctoral Early career fellowship. For Dr. C. Marshall. £250,000
(2005-2010). Co-PI ESRC DCAL. £3.4 million. Research Centres are major investments in one or more of the ESRC's priority themes. They are funded for an initial period of ten years, subject to a satisfactory mid-term review.
(2007). Host for the ESRC – SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellows (Gaurav Mathur). £2000
(2006-2009). PI. ESRC Sign Segmentation. £330,000
(2007-2008). – PI. ESF exploratory workshop €14,000
(2007-2008). – PI. ESRC research seminar series: sign language and gestures overlaps £15,000
(2002-2003). PI. ESRC Sign language acquisition £45,000
(2008). Organiser. Festival of Science debate and workshops – ESRC. £2000
(2007). Organiser. Festival of Science debate and workshops – ESRC. £2000
(2007). Co-PI. Aphasia and gesture: methods. With Lucy Dipper & Naomi Cocks. CUL pump priming £4800
(2007). Co-PI. SLI and gesture. With Nicola Botting & Sotaro Kita. CUL pump priming. £5000
(2006). Organiser. Research feedback workshop. City University KT. £1500
(2006). Co-PI. Aphasia and gesture. With Naomi Cocks. CUL pump priming. £5000
(2005). PI. Nonsense sign repetition. With Chloe Marshall. CUL pump priming. £5000
(2002). PI. Sign language development. With Bencie Woll and Isabelle. Barriere. CUL pump priming. £5000.
Teaching
Teaching and effective learning for students are central in all of my work. I am committed to making the learning experience optimal. I have a wide range of teaching experiences, curriculum development and management of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Teaching roles:
Coaching Professional level 5. UK Government Institute For Apprenticeships And Technical Education (IFATE) https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org
Member: The European Mentoring and Coaching Council: UK (EMCC) https://emccuk.org/ , The Association for Coaching , The International Coach Federation
Quality control: Lecture interview panel (chair/president) Psychology Autonomous University of Barcelona 2023; PhD graduate programme evaluator. Zagreb University. 2019, Professorship panel member. University of Barcelona Psychology 2019, Sara Hunter selection panel. University of Girona, Autonomous University of Barcelona 2019
Visiting professor delivering courses on language and cognitive development: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of Edinburgh, Humboldt University Berlin, University of Paris 8, University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Autonoma University Barcelona, Trinity College Dublin, New York University in London, University of Amsterdam, University of Salamanca, University of Seville, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, University of Bergen, Norway, University of Oviedo, Spain; University of Hong Kong, University of Colorado.
PhD program director School of Health Sciences, CUL. 2017-
MSc program director Speech, Language and Communication Special Needs
Post-doctoral research coaching City University London 2015-
Development of Joint professional practice MSc Unit for SLTs and Teachers. Course materials and curriculum for Language Learning and Development module. City University and Institute of Education, London 2002-
Chair Language and Communication Science Ethics board
Module Leader Psychology and Language Sciences (Undergraduate and Postgraduate Speech and Language Therapists)
Module leader Final year dissertation and Evidence Based Practice (4th year SLT undergraduate)
Member of Department’s Professional Studies and Programme Management Committees. Member of Department’s Strategy & Policy group,
Undergraduate admissions tutor and member of School’s admissions policy group 2002-2005;
Chair of Departmental Sign Language and Deaf Studies research group;
PhD student supervisor and mentor for The Health Foundation Nursing and Allied Health Professionals,
Honorary Senior researcher Centre for Human Communication (UCL) 2006- and Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics (UCL) 1998-
External examiner: University of Manchester Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy (2005-2009); National University of Ireland Galway Speech and Language Therapy (2010- 2014); Strathclyde University Speech and Language Therapy (2010-2014), Leeds Becket (2016-20), Trinity University Dublin (2018-21). Birmingham City University MSc Speech Therapy (2021-), Plymouth Marjon University Speech and Language Therapy and Special CPD courses (2022-), Manchester Metropolitan University Speech and Language Therapy and Special CPD courses (2022-)
Lectures to MSc Neuroscience language and Communication 'deafness option' UCL. Visiting lecturer – sign language linguistics. University of Reading. 2003-2005 Lecturer Sign language Sociolinguistics. Preston polytechnic. 1997.
Contribute distance learning module on sign Language Acquisition. University of Manchester, Deaf Education MSc programme. 1997
Research students Supervision:
MSc/MRes (from 2003-) Naime Pekan - Parent child interaction and deafness (2021) ~ Courtney Wilson – Parent child Interaction in children with Cochlear Implants (2019) ~ Lova Green – ToM and deaf narratives (2018) ~ Gemma Knight - CI and language (MRes 2018) ~ Martina Curtin - Early communication and deafness (MRes 2017) ~ Janet Bilborough, Emanuela Breglia - Gestures and sign (2017) ~ Nika Yarahmadi –Autism and SES (2015) ~ Ahlem Birem – EF and language (2014) ~ Katie Wyatt, Debbie Houston – Early sign language development in deaf children of hearing parents (2014, 2013) ~ Sabrina Anderson – Ushers signing (UCL, 2012) ~ Prya Shah – Bilingualism and ToM (2011) ~ Diana Grajevskyte – Theory of Mind development (2010) ~ Georgia Orfanidou - Working Memory Assessment of Greek children with dyslexia (2009-) ~ Sarah Peaford - Cornelia de Lang syndrome (2007-) ~ Francesca Pinto – Cochlear implant use in deaf adults (2006) ~ Vikki Lambadi – Psycholinguistic profiling of Greek deaf children (2005) ~ Elisabeth Roche – language therapy with deaf children (2004) ~ Daniella Bakker – early signing in deaf children (2003) ~ Helen Stoneham – early signing case study (2003) ~ Pamela Dennis – (2002) – Early sign language development
PhD students
Gabrielle Sharpe (start 2021). Emotion regulation and deafness
Martina Curtin (start 2020). Deaf child-parent interaction. NIHR CDRF
Sevil Savi-Karayol (start 2019). Looked after children and language development
Kathryn Mason (with Chloe Marshall IoE). Deaf children’s EF development: impact of training Completed 2017
Ciara Kelly (with Danielle Mathews, Univ. Sheffield). Deaf children’s cognitive development. 2011-2018. Completed.
Gerardo Ortega. Psycholinguistic studies of signed languages. Completed 2013. Now MPI, Nijmegen.
Shyamani Hettiarachchi. Language impairment in Tamil speakers. Completed June 2009. Now SLT in Sri Lanka.
Isabel de Los Reyes. Sign language comprehension. Supervision during her Marie Curie visit to City University. Completed 2005. Now teaches university of Seville.
PhDs examined
University of Cambridge (2022), University of Queensland, AUS (2022), Barcelona Autonomous University (UAB) (2021); University of Antwerp (2018); University of Salamanca, Spain (2018); University of Leiden, Netherlands (2018), Copenhagen University (2014), Malta University (2014), Cuenca University, Spain (2014), University of Northumbria (2012), University of Barcelona (2011; 2015), University of Paris 8 (2011), UCL (2011), Sheffield University (2009), University of Cambridge (2008), University of Gothenburg (2007), City University London (2003, 2005, 2018), University of Seville (2005; 2013), University of Vigo, Spain (2003).
Research Talks: Conference and Invited
2023
· Invited speaker. Executive Functions and deafness. AG Bell Seminar. 5.5.23
· Keynote. Early communication and the development of theory of mind in deaf children. Workshop on early intervention. University of Valladolid. 25.2.23
2022
· Keynote. Early communication and Theory of Mind. AG Bell Global Symposium Theory of Mind, 1000 people online in 47 countries. 30.6.22
· Keynote. Neuro-cognitive development of deaf children. International Workshop on Advances in Audiology, University of Salamanca. 19.5.22
· Invited speaker. Variability on Language development. E-health seminar UOC. 11.5.22
2021
· Conference talk. The communication of deaf infants with hearing parents (IASCL symposium). 20.7.21.
· Invited speaker. Theory of Mind and deafness. AG Bell. Madrid. 7.5.21
· Invited speaker. Executive Functions and DLD. Creda Jordi Perello, Barcelona. (In Catalan) 12.2.21
2020
· Invited speaker UAM workshop DLD in deaf children. (in Spanish) 4.5.20
· Keynote. Jornadas audiologia Salamanca. Univ. Salamanca. 28.5.20
2019
· Keynote. Access to language and cognitive development. Teaching Deaf Learners (TDL2019). Haarlem, Netherlands 7.11.19
· Invited Speaker. Early communication and cochlear implant. University College London. 18.7.19
· Invited Speaker. Early communication and cognitive development. University of Stockholm, Sweden. 17.5.19
· Invited Speaker. Executive Functions in the classroom. BATOD Conference. Nottingham. 22.3.19
2018
· Invited speaker. Language, interaction and deafness (in Spanish). Jornada Discapacidad Auditiva UCLM, Spain. 10.12.18
· Invited speaker. Language, interaction and deafness (in Catalan). University of Balearic Islands, Mallorca. Spain. 1.11.18
· Invited speaker. Inter-subjectivity as an explanation for EF and ToM delays in deaf children. University of Leiden. 31.10.18
· Invited speaker. Linking early language experiences and language learning outcomes. University of Edinburgh. 21.10.18.
· Invited speaker, with F. Genesee. Linking early language experiences and language learning outcomes: evidence from deaf and adopted children. UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26.3.18
Before 2018
2017
• Invited speaker. Comunicación en el niño sordo y Teoría de la Mente. (in Spanish). XXIII Congreso Sociedad Médica Española de Foniatría. La Laboral, Gijon. 510.17. • Conference talks. Symposiums Organiser. The relationship between EF and language, with N. Botting. Early experiences and phonological Working Memory, with F. Genesee. CI and language development with M. Coene. IASCL (Lyon) 17.7.17. • Invited speaker. Tuning in to other people: connectedness, conversation and context. (in Spanish). 11th International Workshop on Advances in Audiology, Salamanca, 8.6.17 • Invited speaker. Tuning in to other people: connectedness, conversation and context. British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians Annual Conference. Latimer Place, UK. 16.3.17 • Invited speaker. Theory of Mind: connectedness, conversation and context. Astangu Vocational Rehabilitation Centre. Tallinn, Estonia. 14.3.17
2016
• Invited speaker. Tuning in to other people: connectedness, conversation and context. Ear Foundation. Virtual Conference. 9.12.16 • Invited speaker. The importance of language for executive functions development. (in Spanish). International University Catalunya (UIC). 19.12.16 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 19 • Conference talk. Symposium Organiser. English narrative development in deaf children (in Spanish). Spanish Association for Language Acquisition Research. University of Palma Mallorca (UIB). 8.9.16 • Keynote. Two talks on Theory of Mind and EF development. 12th APCD/28th ANZCED Conference 2016. Christchurch New Zealand. 7.7.16 • Invited speaker. Language and Cognitive development. University of Bergen (Statped), Norway. 2.5.16 • Invited speaker. EF en niños sordos (in Spanish). Autonomous University Madrid, 19.4.16 • Keynote. EF and deaf children. Amsterdam Free University. Hearing and Language centre. 3.3.16 • Invited speaker. EF and deaf children. Lucid ESRC centre, Univ. Manchester. 1.3.16. • Invited speaker. EF and deaf children. Online talk to VL2 centre. 29.1.16 http://vl2students.weebly.com/vl2-meeting-and-events.html
2015
• Invited speaker. Porque los niños necesitan lenguaje? (in Spanish). University of Vigo, Spain. 9.10.15 • Keynote. Investigating sign language development, delay and disorder in deaf children. 22nd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED 2015). 6.7.15 http://www.iced2015.com/en/content.php?MG=3&Mid=76&sub1=1 • Invited speaker. Theory of mind in deaf pre-schoolers. Ear Foundation. Nottingham. 12.6.15 http://www.earfoundation.org.uk/education/articles/772 • Invited speaker. EF and deaf children. University Roehampton. 18.3.15 • Invited speaker. Signs and gestures. Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). 14.3.15 • Invited speaker (plenary) SLI in sign Language. Utrecht University. 6.2.15. http://www.nsdsk.nl/over_nsdsk/afdelingen/onderzoek_ontwikkeling/taalstaal_congre s_6_februari_2015/
2014
• Invited speaker (plenary). Signs and gestures. Leuvan University Mamud. 21.11.14. https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/midi/events/mamud • Invited speaker. Trastornos del lenguaje y FE (In Spanish). UOC Madrid. 27.9.14. • Conference talk. Age of Acquisition and Phonological development. IASCL (Amsterdam). 8.7.14. • Symposium organiser with A.Morgernstern. The developmental interactions between gestures, words and signs. IASCL (Amsterdam). 6.7.14. 2014 • Invited speaker. Comparing co-speech gestures and sign languages in children and adults. International Workshop gesture-sign interface. Sorbonne University Paris. 4.4.2014. http://www.ru.nl/gsl/@931674/pagina/ Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 20 • Invited speaker (plenary). Social cognition for deaf learners. 1st International Conference on Teaching Deaf Learners, 19.3.14. http://www.kentalis.nl/TeachingDeaf-Learners/ Amsterdam • Invited speaker. Signed language acquisition as a second language. Radbout University Nijmegen. 31.1.2014. http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/events/slc/
2013
• Invited speaker. Social cognition and communication. 11.11.14. UCL. • Invited speaker. Els trastorns del llenguatge: què podem aprendre de les llengües • de signes (in Catalan). 1 jornada sobre dificultats d'aprenentatge. Universitat Oberta de Catalunyahttp://www.uoc.edu/portal/ca/symposia/dificultats_aprenentatge2013/index .html Barcelona 5.10.13 • Invited speaker. Arriving at conventions in language acquisition: perspectives from child signers. From Hand to Mouth A dialogue between signed and spoken languages. University of Zurich. 7.9.13. http://www.handtomouth.uzh.ch/social/flyerconferencedinnerde.pdf • Conference Symposium. Second language learning in the visual modality: from phonology to narratives. EuroSLA23, Amsterdam, 28.8.13 • Conference talk. Picture naming in deaf children from deaf and hearing families compared with spontaneous gestures produced by hearing children: The influence of iconicity. Child Language Seminar. University of Manchester. 25.5.13 • Invited speaker (plenary). The special nature of sign language acquisition. Empirical approaches to multi-modality and to language variation (aflico 5). University of Lille 15.5.13 • Invited speaker. ¿El bilingüismo es bueno para los niños pero no si eres sordo? (in Spanish). University Autonoma Madrid. 24.4.13 • Invited speaker. Les conseqüències de la sordesa en el llenguatge i la comunicació dels infants. In Catalan. (Consequences for language and communication of deafness). University of Girona, 5.4.13. http://diobma.udg.edu/handle/10256.1/2990 • Invited speaker (Keynote). What do sign language developmental disorders look like? 1st Symposium on Sign Language Acquisition Catholic University of Lisbon. 23.3.13. http://www.ics.lisboa.ucp.pt/site/custom/template/ucptpl_fac.asp?SSPAGEID=934&lan g=1&artigo=365&artigoID=368 • Round table discussant (Jam Session 1: Cognitive and language development in deaf children. 1st Symposium on Sign Language Acquisition Catholic University of Lisbon. 21.3.13. • Invited speaker (plenary). Cognition and language influences on deaf children’s learning. 3rd International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 30.1.13
2012
• Invited speaker. Language delay – does it matter? Symposium. 37th Boston University Conference on language development 2.11.12 • Invited speaker (plenary). Language and cognition in deaf children. Nordic conference on bilingual issues concerning deaf children. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 5.9.12 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 21 • Conference talk (symposium organiser). The spontaneous representational gestures of pre-schoolers: Comparison across culture and language. ISGS conference. Univ. Lund. 16.7.12 • Invited speaker. Discussant for Multimodality and Language Learning Workshop MPI, Nijmegen. 14.6.12. • Invited speaker. Language & Theory of Mind reasoning: seminar in honour of Michael Siegal. University of Sheffield. 18.5.12. http://shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/michael-siegal • Invited speaker. El futur de les llengües de signes es a mans dels nadons (In the hands of babes: the future of sign languages). In Catalan. l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona. 21.3.12 • Invited speaker. Iconicity and Language Development. Birkbeck college. 27.3.2012. • Conference talk. Iconicity and Language Development. Psycholinguistics in the SouthEast (PsyLingSE). UCL. 7.3.12 • Invited speaker. The origins of Theory of Mind reasoning. University of Lancaster. 15.2.12. • Invited speaker. Language delay affects Theory of Mind reasoning in non-verbal tasks. University of Athens. 27.1.12. Video: http://www.blod.gr/lectures/Pages/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=370
2011
• Invited speaker. How deaf children learn to understand other's minds. (in French/English). Hommage à Cyril Courtin. University of Paris 8. 9.12.11 http://cis.gouv.fr/spip.php?article4184. • Invited speaker. Language delay affects Theory of Mind reasoning in non-verbal tasks. University of East London. 21.11.2011. • Invited speaker. Bilingualism in deaf children. Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. 21.11.2011. • Invited discussant. Working Together to Support Families of Young Children with Cochlear Implants Symposium UCL. 9.11.11. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cslir/events/CI_Symposium2012 • Invited speaker. Theory of Mind and language. University of Westminster. 18.10.2011. • Conference talk (symposium organiser). The Importance of Access to Language: Evidence from Intention Attribution and ToM Reasoning in Deaf Infants. IASCL conference, University of Quebec, Montreal 20.7.2011. • Conference talk (symposium organiser). Deaf children with Impairments in Sign Language Acquisition: New Research Findings. Conference on Speech, Language and Communication Needs in older children and young people. City University London. 16.6.2011. • Invited speaker. Early communication in families with deaf children. Trinity College Dublin. 30.5.2011. • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Psycholinguistic processes in using sign language. Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). 17.5.2011. • Invited speaker. In the hands of babes: the future of sign languages. SOAS festival on minority and endangered languages. SOAS. 9.5.2011. • Invited speaker. New Findings on Specific Language Impairment in Deaf Children Acquiring British Sign Language. British Association of Clinical Linguistics. Leeds Metropolitan University. 11.3.2011 • Invited speaker (plenary). Talking about boys, dogs and frogs in the visual modality: using narrative to study Deaf people’s extended sign language. German Linguistics Society. University of Gottingen. 23.2.11 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 22 • Invited speaker. On the origins of theory of mind: Conversational input and belief attribution in deaf and hearing infants. UCL. 17.1.2011.
2010
• Invited speaker (in Spanish). Origins of Theory of Mind. University of Seville. Spanish Science Foundation network on Sign Language Studies. 5.11.2010 • Invited speaker. Origins of Theory of Mind. Goldsmiths, University of London. 21.10.2010 • Conference talk. An evaluation of a parent led language intervention programme for deaf children. BPS developmental section. Goldmiths, University of London. 14.9.10 • Invited speaker (plenary). Contributions of sign language research to language acquisition. Spanish Association for Language Acquisition Research. University of Barcelona. 9.9.2010 • Conference talk. Types and forms of gestures produced by English speaking children on a naming task. International Society for Gesture Studies conference Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 26.7.2010 • Conference talk. Breaking into sign language: The gestural and visuo-spatial properties of classifier constructions in BSL aid their acquisition by adult hearing learners International Society for Gesture Studies conference Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 25.7.2010 • Invited speaker. Four lecture seminar series. Sign Language acquisition. University of Salamanca, Spain. (In Spanish). 30.6-2.7.2010. • Invited speaker. Deafness and child development. The Institute for young deaf children. Paris, France 1.7.2010 (In French) • Invited speaker. The relationship between gestures, signs and words. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France. 15.4.2010 • Invited speaker. Tom reasoning in typical and atypical development. Université Toulouse II, France. 24.3.10 • Invited speaker. Deafness, language and cognitive development. Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC). University of Amsterdam. 12.3.2010 • Invited speaker. Workshop on psycholinguistic factors involved in understanding sign language. Linguistics department. University of Amsterdam. 12.3.2010 • Invited speaker. Seeing language development. Basque center on Cognition, Brain and Language. San Sebastian, Spain. 27.2.2010 • Invited speaker. Contribution of language to development of Theory of Mind in deaf children. University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. (In Spanish). 26.2.2010. • Invited speaker. Four lecture seminar series. Sign Language acquisition. University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. (In Spanish). 23-26.2.2010. • Invited speaker. Workshop on psycholinguistic factors involved in understanding sign language. Structures Formelles du Langage UMR 7023 (CNRS - Université Paris 8). 19.1.2010. • Conference talk. Identifying Specific Language Impairments in Deaf children acquiring British Sign Language. UCL. COST conference “Let the children speak”. 22.1.2010.
2009
• Invited speaker. Language development and Theory of Mind. University of Edinburgh. 18.11.2009 • Invited speaker. Access to language and the development of Theory of Mind. University of Trieste. 31.10.2009 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 23 • Conference talk. Types and forms of gestures in hearing children on a naming task. Multimodality and development conference. University of Toulouse, France. 10.7.2009. • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Language development of deaf children. Summer school in Speech and Language Therapy. University of Oviedo, Spain. 29.6.09-3.7.09 • Invited Speaker. Theory of Mind and Deaf children. York Hospital Learning and Research centre. 3.6.2009. • Invited speaker. Electronic databases and child sign language: phonology. UCL workshop on database research. 30.4.2009. • Conference talk and symposium organiser. Sign language developmental impairments. Society for Research in Child Development. Denver, USA. 3.4.2009. • Invited speaker. Introduction to theory of mind research. ESRC. Festival of Social Science. City University London. 27.2.2009. • Invited speaker. Sign language development: universals. University of the Sorbonne. Paris. 12.1.09
2008
• Invited speaker. Sign language development: early interaction. University of Plymouth. 3.12.08 • Invited speaker. Deaf children’s acquisition of sign language. University of Oxford Brookes. 26.11.08 • Invited speaker. Deaf children’s Theory of Mind development. San Paulo Brazil. 21.8.08 • Invited plenary speaker. Sign language grammatical development in deaf children. Rotary club Deaf education conference. San Paulo Brazil. 19.8.08 • Conference talk. Non-sign repetition. Cognitive Linguistics conference. University of Brighton 5.8.2008. • Invited speaker. Deaf children’s language development. UCL summer school in Deafness, Cognition and Language. 29.7.2008 • Invited speaker. Transitions as cues for sign language segmentation. University of Connecticut, USA. SignTyp conference. 26.6.2008. • Conference talk. Similarities and differences between spoken and signed language phonology. Manchester phonology meeting. University of Manchester. 22.5.2008. • Invited speaker (in BSL). Theory of mind in deaf children of hearing parents. University of Limerick. 2.4.2008 • Invited speaker. Sign language acquisition. Centre for Deaf Studies. University College Dublin. 3.4.2008 • Invited speaker. Mentalising abilities in deaf children: parental strategies. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dept. sign language and linguistics. 28.1.2008
2007
• Workshop introduction as convenor. Gesture and sign interface. ESF workshop. CNR Rome. 6.12.2007 • Invited speaker. Sign language acquisition: experience and modality. UCL. 1.11.2007. • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Current research into sign language acquisition workshop. University of Barcelona. 22.9.2007. • Invited speaker. Sign Segmentation in BSL. University of Bristol. 1.9.2007. • Symposium introduction as convenor. Deafness, cognition and language: developmental perspectives. BPS (Developmental Section). Dept. Psychology. University of Plymouth. 31.8.2007 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 24 • Invited talk. Possible sign constraint and sign segmentation. MPI Nijmegen. 1.8.2007. • Conference talk. Transition from gesture to sign. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Chicago. 17.7.2007 • Sign language comprehension. World Federation of the Deaf Congress. Madrid. 16.7.2007 • Conference talk. Transition from gesture to sign. Amsterdam JPS conference 31.5.2007 • Gesture and language impairment. ESRC workshop sign, gesture and space. 17.5.2007 • Conference talk. Segmentation of sign languages. Workshop on Visual Prosody in Language Communication Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. 10.5.2007 • Sign segmentation. CUNY 2007. The Psycholinguistics of Signed and Spoken Languages special session. 29.3.2007 • Workshop introduction (in BSL). Euro frog. UCL. 16.3.2007 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). University of Seville. Spanish Science Foundation network on Sign Language Studies. New research on sign language comprehension. 8.2.2007. • Invited speaker. University of Manchester, BPS. Gesture workshop. The impact of aphasia on gesture comprehension: A pilot study. 19.1.2007.
2006
• Invited speaker. ESF workshop on Abstract language. UCL, Psychology dept. Abstract language and atypical populations. 28.11.2006. • Invited speaker. Univ Manchester Psychology dept. How do deaf children talk about motion events? 4.10.2006 • Invited speaker. ESF workshop on Sign Language Development and Assessment. University of Zurich, Switzerland. Talking about space in a visual-spatial language: does exposure to Sign Language offer Deaf Children a special developmental path? 15.9.2006 • Invited speaker. Univ Herts BPS workshop on Gesture. How do sign languages use gestures? 31.8.2006 • Invited speaker. Birmingham University Psychology dept. Talking about space in a visuo-spatial language: does exposure to sign language offer deaf children a special developmental path? 13.8.2006 • Conference talk. Non-sign repetition skills in deaf children. Child Language Seminar University of Newcastle. 20.7.2007 • Invited speaker. Opening introduction SLI workshop City University, Language and Communication Science. 17.7.2006 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). University of Barcelona, Dept of Psychology. Sign language acquisition. 2.7.2006 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). University of Barcelona, Psychology Dept. Theory of Mind and deafness. 1.7.2006 • Conference talk. Is SLI a domain-general or a language-specific deficit? A non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language may reveal the answer. Geneva LATSIS conference 23.1.2006
2005
• Invited speaker. UCL, Human Communication Science. Early sign language development: critical periods and abilities. 1.12.2005 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 25 • Invited speaker. St. Michielsgestel, The Netherlands. The early stage of sign language development: critical periods and abilities. 7.10.2005 • Invited speaker. Verb agreement workshop, LSA Institute, Harvard University, USA. The Development of Verb Agreement in British Sign Language: The Influence of Typology, Rules and Input. 6.8.2005. • Conference talk - symposium. IASCL, University of Berlin. How universal is early phonological development: a comparison of sign language and speech. 26.7.2005. • Conference talk - symposium. IASCL, University of Berlin. Perception, comprehension and production: critical abilities and periods. 26.7.2005. • Invited speaker (in BSL). Early signing workshop. City University, London. Early sign language development: what does that mistake mean? 28.6.2005. • Invited speaker. University of Bangor, Psychology dept. Language development and developmental impairments: insights from British Sign Language. 14.4.2005 • Organiser and speaker. Theory of Mind workshop. City University. Late exposure to sign language and non-fluent Theory of Mind abilities. 29.3.2005
2004
• Invited speaker. Homesign workshop. MPI, Nijmegen. Homesigns to sign in Nicaraguan Sign Language. 15.12.2004. • Invited speaker. Narrative in BSL. University of York, Language & Linguistics dept. 19.10.2004 • Invited speaker. University of Oxford, Experimental Psychology. Sign language acquisition and sign language impairment. 14.7.06. • Conference talk. Phonology conference, University of Manchester. Phonological processes in the early acquisition of British Sign Language. 23.6.2004. • Invited speaker. University of Manchester, Speech Sciences and Audiology. The creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language. 24.3.2004
2003
• Invited speaker. University of Colorado at Boulder, Speech Sciences. Clarifying the issues in classifier (and sign language) development. 7.11.2003. • Conference talk. BUCLD. Boston University, USA. Independent acquisition of classifiers and verb agreement in BSL. 31.10.2003. • Invited speaker. University of Southern Maine. Linguistics Dept. Early (but not really) development of BSL grammar. 22.10.2003. • Invited speaker. City University, London. Language and Communication Science. Early (but not really) development of BSL grammar. 8.10.2003. • Invited speaker. City University, London. Language and Communication Science. No Language then no Theory of Mind? Late sign learning deaf children. 2.10.2003. • Invited speaker. Four corners of Psycholinguistics workshop. MPI Nijmegen. Biology and behaviour: What do sign languages reveal? 1.9.2003. • Invited speaker. City University London, Psychology dept. seminar. The learning of British Sign Language by a Polyglot savant: iconicity. 6.8.2003. • Invited speaker. University of Reading, Linguistics and Clinical Science. The encoding of simultaneity in British Sign Language narratives. 4.6.2003. • Invited speaker. Verb workshop. UCL, Human Communication Science. Grammatical relations in the acquisition of British Sign Language. 30.5.2003. • Invited speaker. Sign language acquisition. University of Odense, Denmark. 17.1.2003 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 26 • Workshop Organiser and speaker. City University London. Sign phonology and Phonetics. 15.1.2003
2002
• Conference talk. BUCLD, University of Boston, USA. Grammatical relations in the acquisition of BSL. 2.11.2002 • Invited speaker (in Spanish). Theory of Mind in Deaf children. University of Seville. 21.10.2002 • Conference talk- symposium. IASCL and SRCLD. University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Specific Sign Language Impairment: Deprivation or Disorder. 17.7.2002 • Conference talk. IASCL and SRCLD. University of Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Verbs & first argument structures in British Sign Language development. 19.7.2002 • Invited speaker. University of Hertfordshire. Applied Linguistics. Language against the odds: the learning of British Sign Language by a Polyglot savant. 29.6.2002 • Conference talk. Transcribing sign languages. LAGB special symposium on sign linguistics. 9.4.2002 • Conference talk. Sign language acquisition. LAGB special symposium on sign linguistics. 10.4.2002 • Invited speaker. City University Psychology department seminars. The learning of British Sign Language by a Polyglot savant: iconicity. 8.5.2002 • Workshop organizer. Using Signstream with BSL. University of Bristol. 22.2.2002
2001
• Workshop organizer (in International Sign). Using SignStream to analyze sign language. University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 13-14.12.2001 • Conference talk. Child Language seminar, University of Hertfordshire. The emergence of lexical categories in British Sign Language (BSL). 6.7.2001. 2000 • Invited speaker. Sign language learning in a polyglot savant. University of Hertfordshire. 7.12.2000 • Symposium organiser. Sign language frog stories. TISLR 7, University of Amsterdam. San Sebastian, Spain, 26.7.2000 • Invited speaker. City University, London, Clinical Communications Dept. The effects of modality on British Sign Language development in an exceptional learner. 14.7.2000 • Invited speaker. University of Southern Maine, Linguistics Colloquium. The effects of modality on British Sign Language development in an exceptional learner. 27.4.2000 • Invited speaker. Body classifiers in BSL. Classifier workshop, San Diego Salk institute. 15.4.2000 • Conference talk. Organiser of Symposium on Atypical sign language. University of Amsterdam. TISLR 7. 1.7.2000
Before 2000
• Invited talk. Transcription issues in child sign language acquisition research. European Intersign meeting. City University London. 6.9.1999. • Conference talk. The development of verb agreement in BSL. Part of symposium on sign language acquisition. IASCL congress. University of San Sebastian. 12.7.1999 Gary Morgan. Oct. 2019 27 • Conference poster. TISLR 6. The Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Gallaudet University. Washington, DC, USA Language learning and modality in a polyglot savant. 12.11.1998 • Conference talk. Linguistic constraints in Homesigners. BUCLD. 6.10.1998. • Conference talk. Narrative development in British Sign Language. Child Language Seminar. University of Sheffield. 4.9.1998 • Conference talk. Bilingual narratives of hearing children of deaf adults. Bilingualism congress. University of Newcastle. 15.4.1998 • Conference talk. Translation of BSL to English. BAAL conference. University of Birmingham. 18.10.1997 • Invited speaker. Nicaraguan Sign Language research (in BSL). Manchester Polytechnic. 21.4.1997 • Invited speaker. Discourse cohesion in BSL. ESRC seminar series. University of Plymouth. 17.4.1997 • Conference talk. Learning to use referential space in sign language discourse. Univ. of Manchester. 1997 • Conference talk. Development of anaphoric mechanisms in British Sign Language. Child Language Seminar. University of Reading 1996 • Conference talk. Spatial anaphoric mechanisms in British Sign Language. University of Lancaster 1996 • Conference talk. Discourse organisation in a British Sign Language Narrative. University of Lisbon. 1996