Roberta Williams
Senior lecturer - Dysfluency
Roberta has been at City for a number of years and is a Senior Lecturer specialising in disorders of fluency. She is also Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching within the School of Community and Health Sciences, taking particular interest in developments in clinical and interprofessional learning.
Publications
Roberta is the co-author of several papers and chapters on stuttering, and co-author of practical manuals for working with people with aphasia.
- Howell, P., Davis, S., & Williams, R. (2009). The effects of bilingualism on speakers who stutter during late childhood. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94, 42-46.
- Howell, P., Davis, S., & Williams, R. (2008). Late childhood stuttering. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 51, 669-687.
- Howell, P., Davis, S., Patel, H., Cuniffe, P., Downing-Wilson, D., Au-Yeung, J., & Williams, R. (2004). Fluency development and temperament in fluent children and children who stutter. in Packman, A., Meltzer, A., Peters, H. F. M. (ed.) Theory, Research and Therapy in Fluency Disorders. Nijmegen: Nijmegen University Press, 250-256.
- Howell, P., Au-Yeung, J., Charles, N., Davis, S., Thomas, C., Reed, P., Sackin, S., & Williams, R. (2001). Operant procedures that increase function word repetition used with children whose speech had not improved during previous treatment. Fluency Disorders: Theory, Research, Treatment and Self-Help. Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Fluency Disorders. H-G Bosshardt, J. S. Yaruss & H. F. M. Peters (Eds.). Nijmegen: Nijmegen University Press. , 133.-137.
- Howell, P., Au-Yeung, J ., Davis, S., Charles, N., Sackin, S., Williams, R., Cook, F., Rustin, L., & Reed, P. (2000). Factors implicated in the diagnosis and prognosis of children who stutter. in Baker, K. L., Rustin, L., Cook, F. (ed.) Proceedings of the Fifth Oxford Dysfluency Conference. Chappell Gardner, 42-47 .
- Howell, P., Au-Yeung, J., Davis, S., Charles, N., Sackin, S., Williams, R., & Reed, P. (2000). Assessing what factors lead to an improved diagnosis and indicate likely prognosis in children who stutter with implications for treatment. in Barriere, I., Morgan, G., Chiat, S., Woll, B. (ed.) Current Research in Language and Communication Science., 11-20.
- Howell, P., Sackin, S., & Williams, R. (1999). Differential effects of frequency shifted feedback between child and adult stutterers. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 24, 127-136.