Deirdre Martin Author & Editor

Deirdre Martin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.  She has extensive experience as an educator and researcher with children and families with language disabilities in multilingual societies.  She was a speech and language therapist in the UK and Peru, co-founded the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ special interest group in bilingualism and has been a specialist professional advisor.  She currently leads postgraduate programmes on language disability and dyslexia for professionals working in EAL, EFL and bilingual contexts. She has published and presented widely in the field of language development, disability and bilingualism.