Science, Research and Intervention Advisory Board

The Science, Research and Intervention Advisory Board plays a critical role in advising The Down Syndrome Educational Trust's Board of Trustees on science and research policy and on practice and dissemination. The following people are members of the Science, Research and Intervention Advisory Board:

• Len Abbeduto , Associate Director, Behavioral Sciences and Director, University Center on Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
• Kim Bard , Reader in Comparative Developmental Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Emotion, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK.
• Dorothy Bishop , Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford, UK.
• Jake Burack , Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, Canada.
• John Clibbens , Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology and Acting Dean, Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, UK.
• Bill Cohen , Director, Down Syndrome Center, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Kim Cornish , Canada Research Chair, School of Applied Child Psychology, Director, McGill Child Laboratory for Research and Education in Developmental Disorders, McGill University, Canada.
• Alberto Costa , Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA.
• Monica Cuskelly , Co-Director, Schonell Special Education Research Centre, University of Queensland, Australia.
• Kathleen Feeley , Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Special Education and Literacy, Long Island University, USA.
• Deborah Fidler , Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, USA.
• Jesus Florez Beledo , Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cantabria School of Medicine, Santander, Spain.
• Katheleen Gardiner , Research Professor, University of Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Dana Halle , Co-Founder/Chief Financial Officer, Down Syndrome Foundation of Orange County, USA; Developer and Lead Instructor for The Learning Program.
• Margaret Harris , Professor and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
• Penny Hauser-Cram , Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USA.
• Fran Hickey , Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Thomas Center for Down Syndrome, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
• Charles Hulme , Professor of Psychology, Centre for Reading and Language, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.
• Christopher Jarrold , Reader, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
• Annette Karmiloff-Smith , Professorial Research Fellow Developmental Neurocognition Laboratory, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.
• Libby Kumin , Professor of Speech-language Pathology, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore MD, USA.
• Mark Latash , Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology, Department of Kinesiology, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Glynis Laws , Senior Research Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
• Len Leshin , Paediatrician, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
• Liz Marder , Consultant Community Paediatrician, Nottingham, and Chair of the UK Downs Syndrome Medical Interest Group (DSMIG).

• Gerald Mahoney , Director, Center on Intervention for Children and Families and Verna Houck Motto Professor of Families and Communities, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• Philip Mattheis , Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician and Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA.
• Joan Medlen , Dietician, Principal, Nutrition Counseling and Editor, Disability Solutions, Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA.
• William Mobley , Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and Director of the Center for Research and Treatment of Down Syndrome, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA.
• David Most , Assistant Professor, School of Education, Colorado State University, USA.
• Joan Murphy , Clinical Co-ordinator, Down Syndrome Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
• Lynn Nadel , Regents’ Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA.
• John Oates , Senior Lecturer, Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK.
• Bonnie Patterson , Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA.
• David Patterson , Senior Scientist, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Juan Perera, Director of Centro Principe de Asturias, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
• Siegfried Pueschel, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Child Development Center, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, USA.

• Vasu Reddy , Head of Psychology Department, University of Portsmouth, UK.
• Roger Reeves , Professor, Department of Physiology and McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, USA.
• Jonathan Rix , Lecturer in Inclusion, Curriculum and Learning, Centre for Curriculum and Teaching Studies, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

• Gaia Scerif , Lecturer and Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

• Agustin Seres-Santamaria , Medical Coordinator of the Centre Medic Down, Fundacio Catalana S. de Down, Barcelona, Spain.

• Patrick Sheehan , Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, Department of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Salford and Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK.

• Dale Ulrich , Professor, Movement Science and Physical Education, The Division of Kinesiology and Director of the Center for Motor Behavior and Pediatric Disabilities, University of Michigan, USA.
• Marcia Van Riper , Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
• Stefano Vicari , Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Italy
• Naznin Virji-Babul , Department of Psychology, University of Victoria and Director of Research, Down Syndrome Research Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
• Jennifer Wishart , Professor of Developmental Disabilities, Moray House Institute of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• Margaret Woodhouse , Senior Lecturer, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK