Dr Hannah Sowden
Contact
- Email: h.sowden@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Department: Department of Humanities
About
I am psycholinguist, primarily interested in the development of language in both typical and atypical children. My PhD considered the co-development of speech and gesture in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
My current research interests include the role gesture has in facilitating comprehension in young children; gestural and language processing, particularly in the context of a second language, and the role of gesture as a compensatory strategy in atypical populations such as children with Specific Language Impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Qualifications
- PhD in Clinical Linguistics (University of Sheffield)
- MA in Language Studies (Lancaster University)
- BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics (Durham University)