Professor Danielle Matthews
Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield
Danielle Matthews is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield researching language development. Her focus is on identifying interaction experiences that support learning to co-create accessible and effective interventions. Danielle was a lead academic behind the BBC’s CBeebies Parenting language content, which is recommended by UK Paediatric Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and Health Visitors. Working alongside families, Teachers of the Deaf, Audiologists, Specialist SLTs, and the National Deaf Children’s Society, she co-created NDCS’ early language videos for parents of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children. For older children, she co-developed the CoSI-conversation programme with New Zealander Kirsten Abbot-Smith. Danielle edited Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition (2014) and is currently completing a book for Cambridge University Press on Pragmatic Development: How children learn to use language for social communication.