Reports and Presentations
Below you'll find a selection of recent reports and presentations. For a full list of our academic papers please visit our individual websites linked from the Meet The Team page.
Presentations
Presentation organised by Highland Literacy, to speech and language therapists and other practitioners (April 2019), published here: https://highlandliteracy.com/2019/06/03/dr-laura-shapiro-presentation-24th-april-2019/
Presentation at Scottish Insight event targeted at policy makers: Improving early reading acquisition and development (Jan, 2018), published here: https://lalco.org.uk/improving-early-reading-acquisition-and-development/
Media coverage
Key recent academic papers (full list on our personal websites)
Cunningham, A. J., Burgess, A. P., Witton, C., Talcott, J. B. & Shapiro, L. R. (2021). Dynamic relationships between phonological memory and reading: a five year longitudinal study from age 4 to 9, Developmental Science, 24 (1), e12986.
Mapping visual symbols onto spoken language along the ventral visual stream
Taylor, J. S. H., Rastle, K., & Davis, M.H. (2019) Mapping visual symbols onto spoken language along the ventral visual stream, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 116, 17723 – 17728.
Badger, J. R., & Shapiro, L. R. (2019). We’re going to the zoo: Interactive educational activities with animals boost category-based induction in children. Cognitive Development, 49, 1-10.
Comparing and validating methods of reading instruction using behavioural and neural findings in an artificial orthography
Taylor, J. S. H., Davis, M. H., & Rastle, K. (2017). Comparing and validating methods of reading instruction using behavioural and neural findings in an artificial orthography. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(6), 826.
Differing effects of two synthetic phonics programmes on early reading development
Shapiro, L. R., & Solity, J. (2016). Differing effects of two synthetic phonics programmes on early reading development. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 86(2), 182-203.
Predicting dyslexia using prereading skills: the role of sensorimotor and cognitive abilities
Carroll, J. M., Solity, J., & Shapiro, L. R. (2016). Predicting dyslexia using prereading skills: the role of sensorimotor and cognitive abilities. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 57(6), 750-758.
Cunningham, A. J., Witton, C., Talcott, J. B., Burgess, A. P., & Shapiro, L. R. (2015). Deconstructing phonological tasks: The contribution of stimulus and response type to the prediction of early decoding skills. Cognition, 143, 178-186.