Tim Fosker

Tim is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist and developmental psychologist who is broadly interested in the development of speech, language and literacy. His recent work has focused on the auditory precursors to speech processing and the impact that these have on later literacy development and vocabulary learning. He works with both neurotypical and neurodiverse children, using classroom observation, cognitive, psychometric, psychoacoustic, and cognitive neuroscience (predominantly EEG) methods. Before coming to Queen’s, Tim completed his PhD examining neural markers of developmental dyslexia under the supervision of Professor Guillaume Thierry (Bangor University) followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship investigating auditory processing deficits in children with developmental dyslexia under the direction of Professor Usha Goswami FBA FRS (University of Cambridge).

Tim is director of the Language, Learning and Literacy Lab at Queen’s (L3Lab@QUB) which houses a developmental EEG laboratory and audiometric testing facilities and is supported by a team composed of Educational Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists and Psychology Researchers.

Tim is a chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

• Auditory Foundations of Speech and Language Development
• Causes of Language and Literacy Difficulties
• Classroom Communication