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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Dear
colleagues,<BR><BR>We would be grateful if you could circulate the information
for this<BR>two-year postdoctoral Research Fellow position at London South
Bank<BR>University. <BR><BR>Many thanks,<BR><BR>Lucy Henry<BR><BR>Dr. Lucy
Henry<BR>Reader in Psychology<BR>Department of Psychology<BR>London South Bank
University<BR>103 Borough Road<BR>London SE1
0AA<BR>henrylc@lsbu.ac.uk<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>FACULTY OF ARTS & HUMAN
SCIENCES<BR>RESEARCH FELLOW: SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT & EXECUTIVE
FUNCTIONING<BR>£30,478 - £35,808 PA - 2 YEAR FIXED TERM<BR><BR>We seek a
talented individual for a project investigating Executive<BR>Functioning
abilities in young people with Specific Language<BR>Impairment. The project has
been funded by an ESRC award. <BR><BR>You will have a higher degree in a
relevant subject and have<BR>experience of working with young people. For
further informal<BR>discussion and clarification of the role please contact Dr
Lucy Henry<BR>(henrylc@lsbu.ac.uk) or Professor David
Messer<BR>(d.j.messer@open.ac.uk).<BR><BR>For full details & application
form, please visit<BR>www.lsbu.ac.uk/humanres or send a stamped addressed
envelope to HR,<BR>LSBU, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA. Please quote REF:
X3064.<BR>Closing date: 26 October. An Equal Opportunities
Employer.<BR><BR><BR>Start date: 1 January 2008<BR><BR><BR>Further information
about the project<BR><BR>This research investigates executive functioning (EF)
abilities in<BR>young people with specific language impairment
(SLI). SLI is a<BR>common neurodevelopmental disorder marked by
language delays that are<BR>out of line with the young person's other
abilities. Executive<BR>functioning refers to the higher order cognitive
skills required for<BR>novel tasks with no well-learned patterns of
responding. Recent<BR>theoretical approaches have suggested that brain
regions implicated in<BR>EF show abnormalities in young people with SLI.
Therefore, the aim of<BR>this research is to provide a thorough investigation of
a broad range<BR>of their EF skills. In particular, the work will assess
whether young<BR>people with SLI have weaknesses in EF over and above their
language<BR>difficulties. Carefully chosen matched measures of EF will
either<BR>involve tasks which are language based or do not involve language
to<BR>test this hypothesis. Young people with SLI will be compared
to<BR>typical peers of similar non-verbal intellectual ability and age
on<BR>these two sets of EF measures, to determine whether they
have<BR>difficulties with either or both sets of EF tasks. Further
analyses<BR>will examine detailed predictions concerning the precise links
between<BR>different aspects of EF skill and particular language weaknesses
such<BR>as poor vocabulary and grammatical impairments. <BR><BR><BR>Main
Activities and Responsibilities<BR><BR>1. To make
final submissions for ethical approval.<BR>2. To
negotiate with schools to ensure efficient recruitment of<BR>appropriately
matched samples of children with and without
SLI.<BR>3. To timetable the recruitment and
testing of children for the<BR>research
project.<BR>4. To administer standardised and
non-standardised language<BR>assessments, non-verbal ability and executive
functioning tests (data<BR>collection).<BR>5. To
score and interpret these tests.<BR>6. To manage
data sets.<BR>7. To have major responsibility for
data analysis.<BR>8. To be involved in the writing
up of findings and provision of<BR>feedback to schools and relevant
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