Professor Umar Toseeb is a passionate science communicator, dedicated to delivering complex scientific academic data in and easy to understand enjoyable manner. He is Professor and Director of the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity (CANDY) group and the Research Centre Leader for the Psychology in Education Research Centre. He loves fitting advanced statistical models to existing large and complex datasets (eg, longitudinal cohort studies or administrative data). His substantive expertise is child and adolescent development; specifically special educational needs and mental health. Journal papers he has been involved with have been citated over 3,000 times. His most recent book Developmental Language Disorder and Social-Emotional Development: An Introduction to Theories, Concepts, and Research (co-authored with Jenny Gibson) presents an accessible introduction to the concepts, theories, and research on the developmental mechanisms that underpin associations between linguistic and difficulties in children with DLD.
Professor Umar Toseeb
Professor Umar Toseeb is a passionate science communicator, dedicated to delivering complex scientific academic data in and easy to understand enjoyable manner. He is Professor and Director of the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity (CANDY) group and the Research Centre Leader for the Psychology in Education Research Centre. He loves fitting advanced statistical models to existing large and complex datasets (eg, longitudinal cohort studies or administrative data). His substantive expertise is child and adolescent development; specifically special educational needs and mental health. Journal papers he has been involved with have been citated over 3,000 times. His most recent book Developmental Language Disorder and Social-Emotional Development: An Introduction to Theories, Concepts, and Research (co-authored with Jenny Gibson) presents an accessible introduction to the concepts, theories, and research on the developmental mechanisms that underpin associations between linguistic and difficulties in children with DLD.
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Special Educational Needs and Young People Involved in Violence
Children and young people with special educational needs (SENs) are more likely to commit violent offences compared to those without SENs. Our research team used existing data from school and police records from over 1.5 million children and young people to unpack this relationship. The aim of our project was to identify what works to reduce violent offending and re-offending in children and young people with SENs.
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