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Down Syndrome Research and Practice Editors

Editor

Sue Buckley OBE, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Disability, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK, and Executive Director of Science and Research, The Down Syndrome Educational Trust, UK.

Assistant Editor

Angela Byrne, Assistant Director of Science and Research, The Down Syndrome Educational Trust, UK.

Editorial Board

  • Roy Brown, Emeritus Professor, Down Syndrome Research Foundation, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Barry Carpenter, Chief Executive and Principal, Sunfield, Worcestershire, UK.
  • John Clibbens, Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology and Acting Dean, Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, UK.
  • Cliff Cunningham, Visiting Professor, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
  • 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, CW Post Campus of Long Island University, New York, USA
  • Deborah Fidler, Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
  • Jesús Flórez Beledo, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cantabria School of Medicine, Santander, Spain.
  • Erik de Graaf, Past President, Stichting Down Syndroom, The Netherlands.
  • Marita Hopmann, Clinical Assistant Professor of Paediatrics, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, USA.
  • Libby Kumin, Professor of Speech-language Pathology, Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore MD, USA.
  • Glynis Laws, Research Psychologist, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
  • Len Leshin, Paediatrician, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
  • 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.
  • Liz Marder, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Nottingham, and Chair of the UK Down’s Syndrome Medical Interest Group (DSMIG)
  • Cynthia May, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Charleston, USA
  • Joan Medlen, Dietician, Principal, Nutrition Counseling and Editor, Disability Solutions, Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA.
  • Jon Miller, Professor of Communicative Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.
  • Lynn Nadel, Regents Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA
  • Jo Nye, Research Assistant, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
  • John Oates, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Centre for Childhood, Development and Learning, Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  • Bonnie Patterson, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s 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.
  • Alberto Rasore-Quartino, Director, Unit of Neonatology. Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy and President of the European Down Syndrome Association.
  • 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.

  • Jean Rondal, Professor of Psycholinguistics, Department of Psychology, University of Liege, Belgium.

  • Ben Sacks, Professor of Developmental Psychiatry, The Down Syndrome Educational Trust, UK.

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

  • Rebecca Stores, Senior Lecturer, Portsmouth Institute of Medicine, Health and Social Care, University of Portsmouth, UK.
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  • 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.
  • 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.