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Courtenay Frazier Norbury

Courtenay Frazier Norbury

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
12014
World Ranking
7127
National Ranking
709

Overview

Courtenay Frazier Norbury is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research centers on psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, and statistics and probability.

The main topics of Norbury's work include language development and disorders, reading and literacy development, stuttering research and treatment, autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and child and animal learning development.

Norbury has published extensively in several journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Cognition, and Campbell Systematic Reviews.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on language and social development as well as emotional recognition and communication disorders. Selected recent publications are:

  • The role of emotional valence in learning novel abstract concepts, 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Does phonetic repertoire in minimally verbal autistic preschoolers predict the severity of later expressive language impairment?, 2020, Autism
  • Sources of variability in the prospective relation of language to social, emotional, and behavior problem symptoms: Implications for developmental language disorder, 2021, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Early language competence, but not general cognitive ability, predicts children's recognition of emotion from facial and vocal cues, 2020, PeerJ
  • Prevalence and functional impact of social (pragmatic) communication disorders, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Norbury's frequent coauthors include Sarah Griffiths, Jo Saul, Shaun Goh Kok Yew, Laura Lucas, and Mark Boyes. The collaboration with these researchers highlights ongoing work in developmental psychology and related fields.

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Nonverbal Ability on Prevalence and Clinical Presentation of Language Disorder: Evidence from a Population Study.

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Debbie Gooch;Debbie Gooch;Charlotte Wray;Gillian Baird

  • Narrative skills of children with communication impairments.

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Dorothy V. M. Bishop

  • Exploring the borderlands of autistic disorder and specific language impairment: a study using standardised diagnostic instruments.

    Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Courtenay Frazier Norbury

  • Phonological Processing, Language, and Literacy: A Comparison of Children with Mild‐to‐moderate Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Those with Specific Language Impairment

    Josie Briscoe;Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Courtenay Frazier Norbury

  • The relationship between theory of mind and metaphor: Evidence from children with language impairment and autistic spectrum disorder

    Courtenay Frazier. Norbury

  • Inferential processing and story recall in children with communication problems: a comparison of specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and high-functioning autism

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Dorothy V. M. Bishop

  • Using a parental checklist to identify diagnostic groups in children with communication impairment: a validation of the Children's Communication Checklist—2

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Marysia Nash;Gillian Baird;Dorothy V. M. Bishop

  • Executive functions in children with communication impairments, in relation to autistic symptomatology. 1: Generativity.

    Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Courtenay Frazier Norbury

  • Difference or disorder? Cultural issues in understanding neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Alison Sparks

  • Distinct genetic influences on grammar and phonological short-term memory deficits: evidence from 6-year-old twins.

    D. V. M. Bishop;C. V. Adams;C. F. Norbury

  • Practitioner Review: Social (pragmatic) communication disorder conceptualization, evidence and clinical implications

    Courtenay F. Norbury

  • Why Reading Comprehension Fails: Insights From Developmental Disorders

    Kate Nation;Courtenay Frazier Norbury

  • Barking up the wrong tree? Lexical ambiguity resolution in children with language impairments and autistic spectrum disorders

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury

  • Production of English finite verb morphology: a comparison of SLI and mild-moderate hearing impairment.

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Josie Briscoe

  • Eye‐movement patterns are associated with communicative competence in autistic spectrum disorders

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Jon Brock;Lucy Cragg;Lucy Cragg;Shiri Einav

  • Language disorders from infancy through adolescence : listening, speaking, reading, writing, and communicating

    Rhea Paul;Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Carolyn Gosse

  • Figurative language comprehension in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic review.

    Tamar Kalandadze;Courtenay Norbury;Terje Nærland;Kari-Anne B Næss

  • Do individuals with autism process words in context? Evidence from language-mediated eye-movements

    Jon Brock;Courtenay Norbury;Courtenay Norbury;Shiri Einav;Kate Nation

  • Executive Functions in Children with Communication Impairments, in Relation to Autistic Symptomatology. 2: Response Inhibition.

    Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Courtenay Frazier Norbury

  • Factors Supporting Idiom Comprehension in Children With Communication Disorders

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothy V. M. Bishop
Dorothy V. M. Bishop University of Oxford
Rhea Paul
Rhea Paul Sacred Heart University
Gabriella Vigliocco
Gabriella Vigliocco University College London
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Kate Nation
Kate Nation University of Oxford
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester
Emily Simonoff
Emily Simonoff King's College London
Margaret J. Snowling
Margaret J. Snowling University of Oxford
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Julie E. Dockrell
Julie E. Dockrell University College London

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