Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity 50th Anniversary Lecture – Professor Margaret Snowling

'Dyslexia and Developmental Language Disorder - Who is at-risk and why?'

We are delighted to announce that Professor Margaret Snowling CBE FBA FMedSci will be delivering the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity’s 50^th Anniversary Lecture.

Date:     Saturday 24 April 2021

Time:    10:30am  – 12 noon. 

Fee:       £10.00

Venue:  Online

Professor Maggie Snowling CBE, FBA, FMedSci

University of Oxford

This talk will present findings from a longitudinal study of children at high-risk of dyslexia either because of preschool speech and language difficulties or because of a first degree affected relative, followed from age 3 to 9 years.  A focus on the preschool language profiles suggests that there are shared risk factors between familial dyslexia and language impairment.  The developmental picture is however more complex.  It will be argued, in line with the critical age hypothesis, that children who enter school with a persistent speech or language impairment are most at risk of reading problems.  A dyslexia outcome is associated with persistently poor phonology whereas children with DLD show more general language impairments from an early stage associated later with poor reading comprehension and poor mathematical skills.

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Professor Margaret (Maggie) Snowling

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Maggie Snowling is President of St. John’s College and Professor of Psychology, University of Oxford. She is also professionally qualified as a clinical psychologist. Her research on children’s reading and language is at the interface of psychology and education.

Maggie was awarded the British Psychological Society Presidents' Award (2003) and the Samuel T Orton Award of the International Dyslexia Association (2005); she is Past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading and former Joint Editor of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. She served on Sir Jim Rose’s Expert Advisory Group on provision for Dyslexia, was advisor to the Phonics Screening Check and Reception Baseline Assessment in England and an expert member of the Education for All: Fast Track Initiative group in Washington DC in (2011).

Maggie has been awarded honorary doctorates from Goldsmiths London, University College London, Warwick and Bristol Universities for contributions to the science of reading and dyslexia.

She is Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She was appointed CBE for services to science and the understanding of dyslexia in 2016.