Ros Herman

I qualified as a speech and language therapist and work at the Department of Language & Communication Science, City University, London. At City, I lecture to trainee Speech & Language Therapists and supervise student research projects. I co-ordinate a post-graduate diploma course for qualified therapists wishing to specialise in work with Deaf people and also run the Sign Language Assessment Clinic, offering independent assessments to Deaf children and adults who communicate in BSL.

My research is focused on BSL acquisition. I was project leader in the production of two assessments of BSL development, representing the only norm-referenced tests of any sign language in the world, and played an active role in developing the UK national Monitoring Protocol for Deaf Infants & Children.

I have been involved with the DCAL project to standardise the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory for BSL, run by Tyron Woolfe & Bencie Woll, and am also collaborating in a new DCAL project to explore atypical language development in BSL.

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Direct contact: 020 70408285    Email: Ros Herman