Investigator Profiles

Associate Professor Frédérique Liégeois

UK Chief Investigator

Associate Professor Frédérique Liégeois is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University College London's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her work focuses on unravelling the brain bases of inherited and acquired speech and language disorders

Dr Daisy Thompson-Lake

UK Study Co-ordinator

Dr Daisy Thompson-Lake is a developmental neuroscientist in speech and language disorders at the University College London's Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Professor Melanie Bahlo

International Study Investigator

Professor Melanie Bahlo is the Lead of the Healthy Development and Ageing Theme at WEHI. Professor Bahlo's research focuses on developing new methods to analyse complex genetic data.

Professor Angela Morgan

International Study Investigator

Professor Angela Morgan is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and leads the Speech & Language group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She has over 20 years of clinical-research experience. Her current research focuses on speech and language phenotyping in genetic conditions.

Professor Sheena Reilly

International Study Investigator

Professor Sheena Reilly is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Health) at Griffith University. Her research focuses on understanding speech (including stuttering), language and literacy development in children. She was the lead investigator of the landmark Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS).

Professor Simon Fisher

International Study Investigator

Professor Simon Fisher is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor of Language and Genetics at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Professor Fisher and his colleagues discovered the first gene implicated in speech and language impairment, FOXP2.