Susan Ebbels

Dr. Susan Ebbels is a Speech & Language Therapist and Director of Moor House Research and Training Institute at Moor House School & College, Surrey, UK, a specialist school for children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) aged 7-19. She is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders and Child Language Teaching and Therapy. She has an honorary lectureship at UCL and is also a specialist advisor for Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She is passionate about the need for evidence-based practice and has carried out and coordinated many intervention studies on a range of areas, but with a particular focus on improving the comprehension and production of grammar in children with language disorders using her SHAPE CODINGTM system. She delivers regular courses both on the SHAPE CODINGTM system and on the current evidence base for school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

About Dorothy:

“Dorothy has been a constant source of reliable and clear information throughout my training and career as a Speech and Language Therapist, especially since I specialized in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Her books and articles featured heavily in my training and particularly during my PhD. I was thrilled to be able to meet her during this time and always found her clear explanations and diagrams so helpful to my thinking and her consideration of wider issues inspirational. She is a person of the utmost integrity and engages willingly with many different stakeholders for the greater good – clinicians, researchers, funders, parents, children, professional bodies to name but a few. It has been such a pleasure to work more closely with her in the last few years on developing criteria, terminology, awareness and understanding around DLD. The legacy and impact of her work on the speech and language therapy profession and on the lives of children with DLD and their families cannot be underestimated.”