About the Authors
Chris Oliver, BSc, MPhil, PhD, AFBPsS,CPsychol is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham and trained as a clinical psychologist at Edinburgh University before completing a PhD on self-injurious behaviour in people with intellectual disability at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He is currently researching behaviour disorders in people with severe intellectual disability and gene-behaviour associations and is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation with a particular interest in behaviour disorders.
Jo Moss, BSc is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham. She carried out an undergraduate research project on self-injurious behaviour in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in 2002 and is currently being sponsored by the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation (UK and Ireland) to complete a three year research project on repetitive behaviour in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
Jane Petty, BSc is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham conducting research into the early development of self-injurious behaviour in children with severe intellectual disability.
She has also collaborated on research in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and continues to have an interest in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and the related problem behaviours.
Jenny Sloneem, BSc, PhD completed her Doctorate on self-injurious behaviour in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome at the University of Birmingham in 2003. She is currently training as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London and hopes in the future to continue to research in the area of behaviour disorders and syndromes associated with intellectual disabilities.
Kate Arron, BSc, MPhil is a Clinical Psychologist in training at the University of Birmingham. She completed a Masters on the behavioural phenotype of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome in 2003 whilst managing the National Lottery Charities Board research grant. She continues to research behaviours associated with genetic syndromes with a particular interest in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
Scott Hall, BSc, PhD, BCBA is a Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, USA.
For his PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London he investigated self-injurious behaviour in young children with developmental disabilities before working as a Research Fellow at Arizona State University and the University of Birmingham. His research involves the integration of basic and applied areas of behaviour analysis, the assessment of children with developmental disabilities who show severe behaviour disorders and the cognitive, behavioural and emotional development of children with fragile X syndrome.
on behalf of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation, published on 20 Jun 2003
