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Lucy A. Henry is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology. Other areas of study include cognitive neuroscience, education, statistics and probability, and clinical psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass reading and literacy development, language development and disorders, child development and digital technology, autism spectrum disorder research, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, family and disability support research, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Frequent publication venues where their research appears include the Journal of Cognition, Brain Sciences, The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Recent papers by Lucy A. Henry include:

  • Investigating Reading Comprehension in Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities: Evaluating the Simple View of Reading (2021, Journal of Cognition)
  • Decoding Abilities in Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities: The Contribution of Cognition, Language, and Home Literacy (2021, Journal of Cognition)
  • Associations between Executive Functions, Intelligence and Adaptive Behaviour in Children and Adolescents with Mild Intellectual Disability (2022, Journal of Intellectual Disabilities)
  • Assessing 'Coherence' in the Spoken Narrative Accounts of Autistic People: A Systematic Scoping Review (2023, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders)
  • A Short and Engaging Adaptive Working-Memory Intervention for Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Effects on Language and Working Memory (2022, Brain Sciences)

Frequent collaborators include David Messer, Henrik Danielsson, Nicola Botting, Karin Nilsson, and Åsa Elwér.

Best Publications

  • Experiences of autism diagnosis: A survey of over 1000 parents in the United Kingdom

    Laura Crane;James W Chester;Lorna Goddard;Lucy A Henry

  • Executive functioning in children with specific language impairment

    Lucy A. Henry;David J. Messer;Gilly Nash

  • Working Memory Span and Phonological Awareness Tasks as Predictors of Early Reading Ability

    Cathy V. Leather;Lucy A. Henry

  • Working Memory in Children with Autism and with Moderate Learning Difficulties

    James Russell;Christopher Jarrold;Lucy Henry

  • Autism Diagnosis in the United Kingdom: Perspectives of Autistic Adults, Parents and Professionals

    Laura Crane;Richard Batty;Hanna Adeyinka;Lorna Goddard

  • The effects of word length and phonemic similarity in young children's short-term memory

    Lucy A. Henry

  • Experiences of Receiving a Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Survey of Adults in the United Kingdom

    Lydia Jones;Lorna Goddard;Elisabeth L. Hill;Lucy A. Henry

  • How does the severity of a learning disability affect working memory performance

    Lucy A. Henry

  • The link between phonological memory and vocabulary acquisition

    Irene C. Michas;Lucy A. Henry

  • Strengths and weaknesses in executive functioning in children with intellectual disability

    Henrik Danielsson;Lucy Henry;David Messer;Jerker Rönnberg;Jerker Rönnberg

  • The Development of Working Memory in Children

    Lucy Henry

  • Working Memory Performance in Children With and Without Intellectual Disabilities

    Lucy A. Henry;Morag MacLean

  • Eyewitness memory, suggestibility, and repeated recall sessions in children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities.

    Lucy A. Henry;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Executive Functions in Individuals with Intellectual Disability.

    Henrik Danielsson;Lucy Henry;Jerker Rönnberg;Jerker Rönnberg;Lars-Göran Nilsson;Lars-Göran Nilsson

  • Why does memory span improve with age? A review of the evidence for two current hypotheses

    Lucy A. Henry;Susanna Millar

  • Child and adult witnesses with intellectual disability: The importance of suggestibility

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson;Lucy Henry

  • A Modified Cognitive Interview Procedure for Frontline Police Investigators

    Coral J. Dando;Rachel Wilcock;Rebecca Milne;Lucy Henry

  • Working memory and educational achievement in children with intellectual disabilities

    L. Henry;J. Winfield

  • Memory Span Increase with Age: A Test of Two Hypotheses.

    Lucy A. Henry;Susanna Millar

  • Eyewitness memory and suggestibility in children with mental retardation.

    Lucy A. Henry;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

Frequent Co-Authors

David Messer
David Messer The Open University
Laura Crane
Laura Crane University of Birmingham
Jerker Rönnberg
Jerker Rönnberg Linköping University
Elisabeth L. Hill
Elisabeth L. Hill Goldsmiths University of London
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Gisli H. Gudjonsson King's College London
Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Nicola Botting
Nicola Botting City, University of London
Joni Holmes
Joni Holmes MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Dianne C. Berry
Dianne C. Berry University of Reading
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London

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