Yvonne is Director of Research at Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol in the School of Oral and Dental Sciences. She is a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Health and Clinical Research at the University of the West of England.

Yvonne qualified as a speech and language therapist at the University of Manchester and then worked in a clinical capacity in Liverpool and Bristol for ten years before joining BSLTRU. She was appointed Associate Editor of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica and is chair of the Child Speech Committee for the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (Speech and Language Therapists). She is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ Research and Development Reference Group and part of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech. In 2010, she set up the Specialists in Specific Speech Impairment Network and continues to chair this national organisation. Together with other members of the network, she developed the Good Practice Guidelines for the Transcription of Children’s Speech.

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