Courtenay Norbury

Courtenay Norbury is Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communication at Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London. She is the Director of the Literacy, Language and Communication (LiLaC) Lab (www.lilac-lab.org) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She obtained her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford in 2004, working with Professor Dorothy Bishop on the overlapping language profiles that characterize autism and developmental language disorder. Professor Norbury’s current research focuses on language disorders and how language interacts with other aspects of social and cognitive development. She is leading SCALES, a population study of language development and disorder from school entry. She is also a founding member of the RADLD campaign (https://radld.org/).

About Dorothy:

"Dorothy is an absolute legend and her contributions to our understanding to the causes and consequences of developmental language disorder (DLD) and other developmental conditions cannot be underestimated. Despite her legend status, she is without ego and will give the same time and consideration to junior researchers and clinicians as she would to world-famous scientists. This is because she is interested in the truth, and in making science better so that everyone can benefit. I will be forever grateful to Dorothy for taking a chance on me as a naïve clinician, sharing her knowledge and wisdom so generously, and providing unwavering support throughout my career. It has been the privilege of a lifetime to work with Dorothy and our colleagues to raise awareness of DLD and to see the impact the RADLD campaign has had on the lives of young people."