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Margaret J. Snowling

Margaret J. Snowling

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Psychology
UK
2026

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116
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307
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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
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Overview

Margaret J. Snowling is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their primary area of research is in Psychology, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, as well as related subfields such as Statistics and Probability, Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Education.

Their work covers several main topics, including reading and literacy development, language development and disorders, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, educational and psychological assessments, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, early childhood education and development, and hearing impairment and communication.

Snowling has published in various academic venues multiple times. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Dyslexia
  • Oxford Review of Education
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Snowling reflect an interest in language and reading disorders as well as developmental assessments. These include:

  • Annual Research Review: Reading disorders revisited - the critical importance of oral language (2020), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Language difficulties are a shared risk factor for both reading disorder and mathematics disorder (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Other related recent publications by collaborators include:

  • Children's Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy (2020), Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial (2021), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Preschool phonological, morphological and semantic skills explain it all: following reading development through a 9-year period (2020), Journal of Research in Reading

Frequent co-authors with whom Snowling has collaborated include Charles Hulme, Philip Kirby, Dianne F. Newbury, and Gillian West.

Snowling's contributions also extend to book publications, with at least one book titled Dyslexia published in 2022 by McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Specific reading disability (dyslexia): what have we learned in the past four decades?

    Frank R. Vellutino;Jack M. Fletcher;Margaret J. Snowling;Donna M. Scanlon

  • Dyslexia : A Cognitive Developmental Perspective

    Margaret J. Snowling

  • Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment: same or different?

    Dorothy V. M. Bishop;Margaret J. Snowling

  • Phonemes, rimes, vocabulary, and grammatical skills as foundations of early reading development: evidence from a longitudinal study.

    Valerie Muter;Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling;Jim Stevenson

  • 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

  • The Nonword Reading Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia: A Review.

    John P. Rack;Margaret J. Snowling;Richard K. Olson

  • Language-impaired preschoolers: a follow-up into adolescence.

    Susan E. Stothard;Margaret J. Snowling;D. V. M. Bishop;Barry B. Chipchase

  • Is developmental dyslexia a disconnection syndrome? Evidence from PET scanning

    Eraldo Paulesu;Uta Frith;Uta Frith;Margaret Snowling;Alison Gallagher

  • Beyond phonological skills: broader language skills contribute to the development of reading

    Kate Nation;Margaret J. Snowling

  • CATALISE: A Multinational and Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus Study. Identifying Language Impairments in Children.

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

  • The science of reading: A handbook.

    Margaret J. Snowling;Charles Hulme

  • Semantic processing and the development of word-recognition skills: Evidence from children with reading comprehension difficulties.

    Kate Nation;Margaret J. Snowling

  • Family Risk of Dyslexia Is Continuous: Individual Differences in the Precursors of Reading Skill.

    Margaret J. Snowling;Alison Gallagher;Uta Frith

  • Phonemic deficits in developmental dyslexia

    Margaret J. Snowling

  • Developmental Disorders of Language Learning and Cognition

    Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling

  • Is preschool language impairment a risk factor for dyslexia in adolescence

    Margaret J. Snowling;D. V. M. Bishop;Susan E. Stothard

  • The Foundations of Spelling Ability: Evidence from a 3-Year Longitudinal Study

    Markéta Caravolas;Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling

  • The development of phonological awareness in preschool children.

    Julia M. Carroll;Margaret J. Snowling;Charles Hulme;Jim Stevenson

  • Reading for meaning and reading for sound in autistic and dyslexic children

    Uta Frith;Maggie Snowling

  • Precursors of literacy delay among children at genetic risk of dyslexia.

    Alison Gallagher;Uta Frith;Margaret J. Snowling

  • Dyslexia, 2nd ed.

    Margaret J. Snowling

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Hulme
Charles Hulme University of Oxford
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Kate Nation
Kate Nation University of Oxford
Dorothy V. M. Bishop
Dorothy V. M. Bishop University of Oxford
Arne Lervåg
Arne Lervåg University of Oslo
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Karin Landerl
Karin Landerl University of Graz
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester
Courtenay Frazier Norbury
Courtenay Frazier Norbury University College London
Rebecca Treiman
Rebecca Treiman Washington University in St. Louis

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