Staff Profile
Background
My undergraduate degree was a BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics from The University of Sheffield. I graduated with a MSc in Language Pathology from Newcastle University in 2005. I worked as a paediatric Speech & Language Therapist in the NHS for 15 years. My clinical interests are in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). In 2015 I graduated with a Masters in Clinical Research from Newcastle University.
Publications
- Letts C, Pert S, Czaplewska E, Ashton E, Benson K, Preston E, Stringer H, Trebacz A, Wareham H, McKean C, Jack C. Working with bilingual children at risk of developmental language disorder: adapting assessment and intervention for the nursery-aged bilingual child. In: NALDIC 28 Conference 2020: Multilingual Britain: Successes, challenges and future directions. 2020, Virtual: National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum.