Dr Olympia Palikara
- Qualifications and position:
- MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS
- Visiting Research Fellow
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- Summary:
- My main research interests are in the educational and psychosocial outcomes of children and young people with Specific Language Impairment. I am also interested in the possible overlap between Specific Language Impairment and Autism.
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- Professional Activities:
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Conferences/presentations:
- Individual and contextual predictors of well-being in adolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment (SLI): the mediating role of family involvement. Paper presented in the Lost for Words: Lost for Life Conference, City University, London, 15th-17th June 2011.
Social Communication abilities of children with speech, language and communication needs: comparing children with specific language impairment and autism spectrum disorders. Paper presented in the 12th International Conference for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Montreal, Canada, 19-23 July 2011.
Factors supporting the positive adjustment of young people with a history of Specific Language Impairment. Invited talk presented at the University of Oxford, Department of Education; Families, Early Learning and Literacy (FELL) research group, June 2009
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Publications
- Palikara, O., Dockrell, J., & Lindsay, G. (in press) 'Patterns of change in the reading decoding and comprehension performance of adolescents with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)', Learning Disabilities: a contemporary journal.
- Dockrell, J., Lindsay, G., & Palikara, O. (2011) 'Explaining the academic achievement at school leaving for pupils with a history of language impairment- previous academic achievement and literacy skills', Child Language Teaching and Therapy 27 (2), 223-237.
- Lindsay, G., Dockrell, J., Palikara, O. (2010) 'Self-esteem of adolescents with specific language impairment as they move from compulsory education', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 45 (5), 561-571.
- Palikara, O., Lindsay, G., Dockrell, J. (2009) 'Voices of young people with a history of specific speech and language difficulties in the first year of post-16 education', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 44 (1), 56-78.
- Palikara, O., Lindsay, G., Cullen, M.A., Dockrell, J. (2008) 'The role of Educational Psychologists and Speech and Language Therapists in the educational provision of children with specific speech and language difficulties - the investigation of good practice', Journal of Child and Educational Psychology 24 (4), 77-88.
