BBC's Expert Women's Day

Dr Yvonne Wren is a research speech and language therapist with a particular interest in children's speech development and disorder.

Yvonne is based in Bristol but presents her work both nationally and internationally. She was an invited speaker at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention in 2012 and will be the keynote speaker at the conference of the National Association of Professionals working with Language Impaired Children in 2014. She has published in a number of international journals and is also on the editorial board of the journal, Child Language Teaching and Therapy. She has been successful in obtaining a number of research grants, including a fellowship from the National Institute of Health Research.

This video was a shortlisted application to one of the BBC's Expert Women's Day events, which offer free training to female specialists who would like to appear in the media as contributors and presenters.

 

 

 

Find out more about the initiative and see other expert's videos at the Expert Women's Day YouTube channel or the BBC Academy website www.bbc.co.uk/academy.