Stephen Parsons

Stephen Parsons

Stephen is a Speech and Language Therapist, trainer and author of practical language development resources for teachers and SLTs. From 1996-2017 Stephen worked as a Speech and Language Therapy Services Manager in Hackney and the City of London. With 30 years’ experience in the field, he is co-author of best-selling resources ‘Language for Thinking’ and ‘Word Aware’. Stephen graduated in Speech Pathology from Flinders University in Australia, before attaining an MSc in Speech and Language Therapy from City University in 2000. He has extensive experience of working in language resources bases, mainstream schools and special schools in the UK and Australia. He is Chair of the Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (RADLD) international committee and was Chair of NAPLIC, the UK association for professionals working with children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder, from 2016 to 2024.