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Dr
Glynis Laws
Senior
Research Fellow
telephone:
+44 (0)117 92 88448 email:
Glynis.Laws@bris.ac.uk
Room
1D19
Biographical
details

I completed a Psychology degree at the University of Surrey,
as a mature student. I stayed on to complete a PhD on the
relationship between colour categorisation and colour language,
supervised by Ian Davies. Following a post-doctoral post in
Portsmouth, studying the efficacy of memory training for children
with Down syndrome, I returned to Surrey in 1996 to a Lectureship.
I moved to full time research at the University of Oxford
in 2000, working with the Oxford Study of Children’s
Communication Impairments, directed by Dorothy Bishop. I came
to Bristol in March 2006, after transferring a project grant
awarded by the Wellcome Trust. The project will run for three
years and will study language and literacy development in
children with Down syndrome, children with specific language
impairment and children with reading difficulties.
Research interests

Language and cognitive development, particularly of children
with developmental disorders
Research Grants

2006-2009 Reading and comprehension in children with
Down syndrome and children with specific language impairment.
The Wellcome Trust awarded to Laws, Briscoe and Jarrold. £310k
2000-2001 Phonological memory as a predictor of language development
in Down syndrome. ESRC awarded to Laws. £12k
PhD Students

Christine Daoutis (Surrey, 1997-2001)
Margriet Groen (Oxford 2003- )
Some Recent Publications

Brock, J., Jarrold, C., Farran, E.K., Laws,
G., & Riby, D. (2007). Do children with Williams syndrome
have really good vocabulary knowledge? Methods for comparing
cognitive and linguistic abilities in developmental disorders.
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 21 (9), 673-688.
Groen, M. A., Yasin, I., Laws, G., Barry,
J. G., & Bishop, D. V. M. (2008) Inconsistency in hand
preference in children with Down syndrome is associated with
deficits in receptive vocabulary. Cognitive Psychobiology,
50 (3), 242-250.
Laws, G. (2002). Working memory in children and adolescents
with Down syndrome: evidence from a colour memory experiment.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43, 353-364.
Laws, G. & Gunn, D. (2002). Relationships between reading,
phonological skills and language development in individuals
with Down syndrome: a five year follow up study. Reading and
Writing, 15, 127-548.
Laws. G. & Bishop, D.V.M. (2003). A comparison of language
abilities in adolescents with Down Syndrome and children with
specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language
and Hearing Research, 46, 1324-1339.
Laws, G. & Gunn, D. (2004). Phonological memory as a predictor
of language development in children with Down syndrome: a
five year follow up study. Journal of Child Psychology and
Psychiatry, 45, 326-337.
Laws, G. & Bishop, D.V.M. (2004). Pragmatic language impairments
and social deficits in Williams syndrome: A comparison with
Down syndrome and specific language impairment. International
Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 39, 45-64.
Laws, G. (2004). Contributions of phonological memory, language
comprehension and hearing to the expressive language of adolescents
and young adults with Down syndrome. Journal of Child Psychology
and Psychiatry, 44, 326-337.
Laws, G. & Bishop, D.V.M. (2004). Verbal deficits in Specific
Language Impairment and Down syndrome: a comparative review.
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders,
39, 423-451.
Groen, M., Laws, G., Nation, K., and Bishop, D.V.M. (2006).
A case of exceptional reading accuracy in a child with Down
syndrome – Underlying skills and the relation to reading
comprehension. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 1190-1214.

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