Contributors

• 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
• Rebecca Baxter
  Speech and Language Therapist, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• Anita Bhattacharyya
  Assistant Scientist, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• Gillian Bird
  Director of Education and Information Services, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• Julie Bradley
  Paediatric Audiologist, Manchester, UK
• Monica Bray
  Speech and Language Sciences, School of Applied Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
• Sophie Brigstocke
  Postgraduate, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK
• Frank Buckley
  Chief Executive, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• * Sue Buckley
  Director of Science and Research, Down Syndrome Education Internationaland Emeritus Professor of Developmental Disability, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
• Jake Burack
  Professor of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, Canada
• Angela Byrne
  Assistant Director of Science and Research, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• Patrick Clark
  President, Down Syndrome Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
• John Clibbens
  Dean of Faculty, Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, UK
• Kathy Cologon
  Postgraduate, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Jack Coulbeck
  Assistant Psychologist, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• Kim Cornish
  Canada Research Chair, School of Applied Child Psychology, Director, McGill Child Laboratory for Research and Education in Developmental Disorders, McGill University, Canada
• Monica Cuskelly
  Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia
• Fiona Dalton
  Postgraduate, Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
• Steve Davis
  Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
• Kathleen Feeley
  Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Special Education and Literacy, Long Island University, USA
• Debbie Fidler
  Colorado State University, USA
• Katheleen Gardiner
  Research Professor, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
• Gabi Gleichmann
  Trustee, Down Syndrome Education International, UK
• Margriet Groen
  Postgraduate, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
• Jan Harling
  Audiology Manager, Manchester, UK
• Margaret Harris
  Professor and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
• Maggie Hart
  Education Co-ordinator, The Education Centre for Children with Down Syndrome, Darlington, 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
• Kate Hill
  Assistant Psychologist, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• Peter Howell
  Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
• Julie Hughes
  Director of Intervention Services and Family Support, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, UK
• * Charles Hulme
  Professor of Psychology, Centre for Reading and Language, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK
• Howard Hurd
  Head of Fundraising and Development, Down Syndrome Education International, Portsmouth, 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
• 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
• Samantha Line
  Post Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
• Jacqueline London
  AFRT Universite Paris Diderot, France
• Ira Lott
  Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Neurology Division, Professor of Neurology, Associate Dean of Clinical Neurosciences and Director of Neurosciences Development, UCI Health Systems, University of California Irvine Health Sciences, Irvine, California, USA
• Solveig-Alma Halaas Lyster
  Professor, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Norway
• Jill O'Connor
  Information Officer, Down Syndrome New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Gerald Mahoney
  Director, Center on Intervention for Children and Families and Verna Houck Motto Professor, George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, USA
• Elisabetta Monari Martinez
  Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy
• Dawn McKenna
  Executive Director, Down Syndrome Research Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
• Joan Medlen
  Dietician, Editor, Disability Solutions and Director, Creating Solutions and Phronesis Publishing, Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA
• Sylvana Mengoni
  Postgraduate, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK
• Jo Mills
  Down Syndrome International, London, UK
• * 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
• Emma Mosse
  Postgraduate, Department of Experimental Psychology, Bristol University, UK
• David Most
  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
• Kari-Anne Næss
  Postgraduate, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, Norway
• Joanna Nye
  Research Associate, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
• John Oates
  Senior Lecturer, Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK
• * David Patterson
  Senior Scientist, Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
• Michele Pettinato
  Postgraduate, Department of Language and Communication Science, City University, London, UK
• Juan Perera
  Director, Asociación Síndrome de Down de Baleares and University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
• Amy Philofsky
  University of Colorado, USA
• Siegfried Pueschel
  Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Brown University, and Director of Child Development Center, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, USA
• Vasu Reddy
  University of Portsmouth, UK
• Karen Riley
  Assistant Professor, Morgridge College of  Education, University of Denver, Colorado, USA
• * Jean Rondal
  Professor of Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Logopedics, University of Liège, Belgium
• Vanessa dos Santos
  National Chairperson, Down Syndrome South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Gaia Scerif
  Lecturer and Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Patrick Sheehan
  Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, Department of Paediatric Otolaryngology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Salford and Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK
• Anna Sie
  Anna and John J Sie Foundation, Denver, USA
• John Sie
  Anna and John J Sie Foundation, Denver, USA
• Maggie Snowling
  Professor of Psychology, Centre for Reading and Language, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK
• Ann Steele
  Postgraduate, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Kate Thorsteinsson
  University of Portsmouth, 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
• Louise Wood
  Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics, Sport and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Sara Wood
  Lecturer in Speech and Hearing Sciences, Speech Science Research Centre, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
• Daniel Weeks
  Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
• John Wilding
  Emeritus Reader in Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
• Frances Wiseman
  Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
• Margaret Woodhouse
  Senior Lecturer, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

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