International Women’s Day presents an opportunity for us to pause and acknowledge the incredibly dedicated women leading the way to greater understanding of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) around the world.
This year’s campaign theme is a challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let’s all choose to challenge.
We are privileged to know of many great women who are parent’s/carers, educators, therapists, researchers and people with DLD who choose to challenge every day and are working incredibly hard to bring awareness of DLD to the world. Therefore, our list of women deserving recognition for their efforts in the DLD space is not comprehensive because there simply isn’t enough time to acknowledge all of the exceptional women driving change for people with DLD around the world.
For now though, let’s take a brief look at the female researchers who are without a doubt game changers in their field.