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Penny Roy is a Professor at City St George's, University of London, specializing in developmental and educational psychology. With a career spanning over three decades since joining in 1983, her research focuses on early psychosocial disadvantage, language/literacy development, and deaf education. She works part-time on collaborative research projects and supervises students, while maintaining clinical ties through the Sign Language Assessment outreach service.
- PhD in Psychology
- Member, Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Member, Society for Research in Child Development
Research Interests: Dr. Roy investigates how early experiences shape verbal/nonverbal abilities, including studies on institutionalized children, socioeconomically deprived populations, and deaf individuals using British Sign Language (BSL). Her work includes developing standardized assessments like the Early Repetition Battery and Early Sociocognitive Battery, with recent focus on dyslexia in deaf children and phonological predictors of communication disorders.
Key Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize clinical tools for early ASD detection, cross-linguistic vocabulary adaptation, and swallowing outcomes post-laryngectomy. Collaborations with Shula Chiat, Ros Herman, and James Law drive her research, particularly through Nuffield Foundation and ESRC grants.
Students & Grants: Supervised students explore topics like Saudi children's sociocognitive skills, 22q11 deletion syndrome discourse, and socioeconomic effects on phonological awareness. Major grants include Nuffield Foundation funding for deaf literacy research (2010-14) and ESRC projects on early processing skills.
