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Overview

James Law is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a notable focus on subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Education, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, with key areas being Language Development and Disorders, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Family and Disability Support Research, Early Childhood Education and Development, Reading and Literacy Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation.

Frequent publication venues for James Law include the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, Research in Developmental Disabilities, Frontiers in Psychology, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, and BMC Pediatrics.

  • Tele-practice for children and young people with communication disabilities: Employing the COM-B model to review the intervention literature and inform guidance for practitioners (2021, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders)
  • Double advantage of parental education for child educational achievement: the role of parenting and child intelligence (2022, European Journal of Public Health)
  • The Emergence of Inner Speech and Its Measurement in Atypically Developing Children (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Expectations and experiences of parents taking part in parent-child interaction programmes to promote child language: a qualitative interview study (2020, International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders)
  • Universal language development screening: comparative performance of two questionnaires (2022, BMJ Paediatrics Open)

James Law has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Cristina McKean, Jenna Charlton, Ewa Czaplewska, Niloufar Jalali-Moghadam, and Robert Rush, highlighting a collaborative approach in their research endeavors.

The scientist has contributed to academic publishing beyond journals through a book titled Language Development, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology

    Dorothy V.M. Bishop;Margaret J. Snowling;Paul A. Thompson;Trisha Greenhalgh

  • Prevalence and natural history of primary speech and language delay: findings from a systematic review of the literature.

    James Law;James Boyle;Frances Harris;Avril Harkness

  • Speech and language therapy interventions for children with primary speech and language delay or disorder

    James Law;Zoe Garrett;Chad Nye

  • The efficacy of treatment for children with developmental speech and language delay/disorder: a meta-analysis.

    James Law;Zoe Garrett;Chad Nye

  • Modeling developmental language difficulties from school entry into adulthood: literacy, mental health, and employment outcomes.

    James Law;Robert Rush;Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons

  • Screening for speech and language delay: a systematic review of the literature

    J Law;J Boyle;F Harris;A Harkness

  • Specific language impairment: a convenient label for whom?

    Sheena Reilly;Sheena Reilly;Bruce Tomblin;James Law;James Law;Cristina McKean;Cristina McKean

  • Systematic review of tools to measure outcomes for young children with autism spectrum disorder

    Helen McConachie;Jeremy R Parr;Magdalena Glod;Jennifer Hanratty

  • The Social Communication Intervention Project: A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of speech and language therapy for school-age children who have pragmatic and social communication problems with or without autism spectrum disorder

    Catherine Adams;Elaine Lockton;Jenny Freed;Jacqueline Gaile

  • Parental Report of Infant Language Skills: A Review of the Development and Application of the Communicative Development Inventories

    James Law;Penny Roy

  • Child speech, language and communication need re-examined in a public health context: a new direction for the speech and language therapy profession.

    James Law;Sheena Reilly;Pamela Claire Snow

  • Children's Language Ability and Psychosocial Development: A 29-Year Follow-up Study

    Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons;Robert Rush;James Law

  • The feasibility of universal screening for primary speech and language delay: findings from a systematic review of the literature

    James Law;James Boyle;Frances Harris;Avril Harkness

  • Speech and language therapy interventions for children with primary speech and language delay or disorder (Cochrane Review)

    James Law;Zoe Garrett;Chad Nye

  • Communication skills in a population of primary school‐aged children raised in an area of pronounced social disadvantage

    James Law;Kirsty McBean;Robert Rush

  • Consultation as a model for providing speech and language therapy in schools: a panacea or one step too far?

    James Law;Geoff Lindsay;Nick Peacey;Marie Gascoigne

  • Provision for children with speech and language needs in England and Wales : facilitating communication between education and health services

    James Law;Nick Peacey;Julie Radford

  • Childhood Language Skills and Adult Literacy: A 29-Year Follow-up Study

    Ingrid Schoon;Samantha Parsons;Robert Rush;James Law

  • Caffeine exposure induces browning features in adipose tissue in vitro and in vivo

    Ksenija Velickovic;Declan Wayne;Hilda Anaid Lugo Leija;Ian Bloor

  • Screening for primary speech and language delay: a systematic review of the literature.

    J Law;J Boyle;F Harris;A Harkness

  • Speech and language therapy interventions for children with primary speech and/or language disorders

    James Law;Jane A Dennis;Jenna Jv Charlton

  • Can changing aspirations and attitudes impact on educational attainment? A review of interventions

    J Law;C Cummings;P Woolner;K Laing

  • Investigating the role of language in children's early educational outcomes

    Sue Roulstone;James Law;Robert Rush;Judy Clegg

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoff Lindsay
Geoff Lindsay University of Warwick
Sheena Reilly
Sheena Reilly Griffith University
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Julie E. Dockrell
Julie E. Dockrell University College London
Katrina Williams
Katrina Williams University of Melbourne
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Helen McConachie
Helen McConachie Newcastle University
Fiona Mensah
Fiona Mensah University of Melbourne
Ingrid Schoon
Ingrid Schoon University College London
Helen Minnis
Helen Minnis University of Glasgow

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