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Courtenay Frazier Norbury is Professor II at the University of Oslo's Department of Special Needs Education (part-time) and Professor of Developmental Disorders of Language and Communication at University College London. She holds a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford (2004), an MSc in Clinical Communication Sciences from City University London (1998), and a BA in Communication Disorders from the University of New Mexico (1992). She is registered with the Health Professions Council and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Her research examines language disorders across clinical conditions, focusing on Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and its impact on social, academic, and cognitive development. She leads the SCALES study, the UK's first epidemiological study of language disorders in school children, which identified 7.58% prevalence of DLD. Her work emphasizes early identification and longitudinal outcomes.
Recent publications (2019-2025) cluster around:
- Interventions for language disorders in neurodevelopmental conditions
- Mental health correlates of communication disorders
- Predictive relationships between language and social-emotional development
- Innovative methodologies for minimally verbal populations
Awards and honors:
- Fellowship, Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (2017-18)
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2016)
- Neil O’Connor Award, British Psychological Society (2004)
- Multiple teaching prizes including UCL Inspirational Teaching nomination
She oversees doctoral projects on stammering-mental health links and minimally verbal autism. Major grants include ESRC funding for predictive language-mental health relationships (£942,047) and Wellcome Trust support for SLI comorbidity studies.
