Professor Gina Conti-Ramsden Ph.D., FBPS, FRCSLT, AcSS
Professor of Child Language and Learning
- Email: gina.conti-ramsden@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 3514
- Alternative Telephone: + 44 (0) 161 275 3389 (Secretary)
- Fax: +44 (0)161-275-3965
Role
Joint lead, Developmental Psychopathology Group within the Neuroscience Research Institute.
Honorary Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Research
I am particularly interested in Specific language impairment (SLI) and its longitudinal lifecourse from childhood to adolescence. I am also interested psycholinguistic development of children with SLI including potential clinical markers for SLI; the psychosocial outcomes of children with SLI; the genetics/familiality of SLI; the educational/life transitions of children and young people with SLI; uses of new media and SLI and the overlap between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and SLI.
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Collaborators and affiliated staff
Collaborators
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SLI Consortium (SLIC)
The University of Oxford
The SLI Consortium is a group that brings together geneticists, psychologists, speech and language therapists and other professionals interested in developing a better understanding of specific language impairment both genetically and phenotypically.
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Dr. Nicola Botting
City University, London
Co-investigator on an ESRC funded project examining specific language impairment (SLI) in adulthood. This study aims to examine personal, social and societal functioning in individuals with a history of SLI and is part of our longitudinal study on SLI.
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Professor Kevin Durkin
The University of Strathclyde
Co-investigator on an ESRC funded project examining specific language impairment (SLI) in adulthood. This study aims to examine personal, social and societal functioning in individuals with a history of SLI and is part of our longitudinal study on SLI.
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Professor Andrew Pickles
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
Co-investigator on an ESRC funded project examining specific language impairment (SLI) in adulthood. This study aims to examine personal, social and societal functioning in individuals with a history of SLI and is part of our longitudinal study on SLI.
Selected publications
2011
- St. Clair, M.C., Pickles, A., Durkin, K., Conti-Ramsden, G. (2011). A longitudinal study of behavioural, emotional and social difficulties in individuals with a history of specific language impairment. Journal of Communication Disorders, 44, 186-199. eScholarID:123536 | DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2010.09.004
- Wadman, R., Durkin, K., Conti-Ramsden, G. (2011). Social stress in young people with specific language impairment. Journal of Adolescence, 34, 421-431. eScholarID:123539 | DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.06.010
2010
- Conti-Ramsden, G., Durkin, K. & Simkin, Z. (2010). Language and social factors in the use of cell phone technology by adolescents with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 53, 196-208. eScholarID:80488 | DOI:doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0241)
2009
- Conti-Ramsden GM, Durkin K, Simkin Z, Knox E. (2009). Specific language impairment and school outcomes. I: identifying and explaining variability at the end of compulsory education. Int J Lang Commun Disord, 44( 1), 15-35. eScholarID:1d18464 | DOI:10.1080/13682820801921601
2008
- Conti-Ramsden GM, Botting N. (2008). Emotional health in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment (SLI). Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry, 49:5, 516-525. eScholarID:1d28172 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01858.x
2007
- Conti-Ramsden GM, Falcaro M, Simkin Z, Pickles A. (2007). Familial loading in SLI: Patterns of differences across proband characteristics, gender and relative type. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 6, 216-228. eScholarID:1d13354 | DOI:10.1111/j.1601-183X.2006.00250.x
2006
- Conti-Ramsden GM, Simkin Z, Botting NF. (2006). The prevalence of autistic spectrum disorders in adolescents with a history of specific language impairment (SLI). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47:6, 621-628. eScholarID:1d11038 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01584.x