Director of The Ladder Lab

Fiona is a chartered psychologist and a lecturer at DCAL, UCL. She also holds a visiting associate professorship at the Reading Research Center at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She specialises in developmental psychology and her research focuses on literacy, language and cognitive development in typical and atypical child populations. 

She has a particular interest in how deaf children learn to read and spell and the cognitive correlates of reading success including speechreading, vocabulary and phonological skills.  Fiona developed the Test of Child Speechreading (ToCS).  She is also interested in computer assisted reading interventions (CARIs) for struggling readers and she has been involved with several adaptations of GraphoGame.