Professor Julie Dockrell

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BSc, Dip Ed, MAppSci, Dip Clin Psych, PhD
    • Professor of Psychology and Special Needs
  • Faculty:
  • Department:
  • Summary:
    • Language development and difficulties; The wider impacts of experiencing a language problem; Lexical development and semantic representation; Assessment of language and cognition; Developmental difficulties; Impact of acoustic environments on language and learning;interventions to enhance oral language skills.
  • Teaching:
    • MA/MSc in Child Development
      MA/MSc Special Education
      Doctor in Education (EdD)
      Doctor in Educational Psychology
  • Research Projects:
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Supervision topics: Language and learning, vocabulary development and difficulties, classroom acoustics, typical and atypical writing skills, evidence based interventions (language and literacy)
      (1)Ioanna Bakopoulou: Nature of the relationship of language difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties
      (2)Catherine Carroll: From special school to college - a study of transitions
      (3)Olympia Palikara: Coping and self esteem in young people with speech and language difficulties
      (4)Diane King: Narrative development in children with autism
      (5)Emma Tate- Harper: Acoustics in open plan classrooms
      (6)Ann Carey: Speech intelligibility in classrooms
  • Professional Activities:
    • Honorary Fellowship by the RCSLTs and is an Academician of the Social Sciences.
      Member of Psychology RAE panel 2008, 2001
      Previous editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology, International Journal of Language and community difficulties
      Collaborations with voluntary agencies:
      Afasic, ICAN A central theme in research has been the application of evidence based research and evaluating interventions to support children with language and communication needs in educational settings. The 'talking time intervention', implemented and evaluated in a London borough, is currently being used to inform development of the CLLD programme for the National Strategies.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Inclusion versus specialist provision (2008). Afasic International Congress, The University of Warwick Language intervention the research basis. (2008) National Strategies, Sept Leeds & London launches.

      The impact of oral language skills on the production of written text. (2008).
      L'emergere della lingua scritta e lo svilippo delle abilita di scrittura, University of Verona Italy.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • French
  • Languages Written:
    • French written comprehension
Professor Julie Dockrell

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Publications

  • Dockrell, J. E. & Lindsay, G. (2008) 'Inclusion versus specialist provision: Ideology versus evidence based practice for children with language and communication difficulties' In Eds C. Norbury, B. Tomblin & D.V.M. Bishop., Understanding Developmental Language Disorders . Psychology Press..
  • Shield, B. & Dockrell, J.E. (2008). 'The effects of environmental and classroom noise on the academic attainments of primary school children.', JASA 123, no 1, 133-144.
  • Dockrell, J.E., Stuart, M. and King, D. (2007) Talking time: developing language skills in early years settings. London: Institute of Education.
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  • Dockrell, J.E. & Messer, D. (2007) 'Language profiles and naming in children with word finding difficulties ', Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica 59, 318-323.
  • Dockrell, J.E, Braisby, N. and Best R. (2007) 'Children's acquisition of science terms: simple exposure is insufficient.', Learning and Instruction 17, no 6, 577-594.
  • Dockrell, J.E., Lindsay, G.A., Connelly, V. and Mackie, C. (2007) 'Profiling the written language difficulties of children with language and communication problems', Exceptional Children 73, 147-164. .
  • Messer, D. and Dockrell, J.E. (2006) 'Children's Naming and Word-Finding Difficulties: Descriptions and Explanations', Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 49, 309-324.
  • Best, R. Dockrell. J.E. & Braisby, N. (2006) 'Lexical Acquisition in elementary science classes', Journal of Educational Psychology 98, 824-838.
  • Dockrell, J.E. and McShane, J. (1993) Children's Learning Difficulties: A cognitive approach. . Basil Blackwell. Spanish and Brazilian editions 1997; Talking Book Norwegian Talking and Braille Book Library, 1998.