Caroline Burke
Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
Specialist topics: Developmental Language Disorder; Speech & Language interventions; research; the SHAPE CODING™ system
After qualifying, Caroline worked in community clinics, mainstream schools and a language unit. She originally started working at Moor House School and College in 1999, leaving in 2003 to join the Royal London Society for Blind People. She later worked in independent practice, supporting pre-school to secondary aged children and young people with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties, including Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Caroline joined Moor House Research and Training Institute (MHRTI) in October 2019. She has a varied role within the department, including being actively involved in many of the research projects undertaken at Moor House.
Caroline is passionate about raising awareness of DLD, its implications on communication in everyday situations, and how we can all help individuals with DLD by making even small changes to the way we communicate with them.
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Glisson, L., Tutty, R., Heine, C., Burke, C., Hughes, L., Dawson, N., & Ebbels, S. (in press). Morphemes matter: A small scale randomised control trial of vocabulary intervention focusing on affixes for adolescents with (developmental) language disorder. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2025.2526539. Link. Accepted version.
Ebbels, S. H., Gadd, M., Nicoll, H., Hughes, L., Dawson, N., Burke, C., Calder, S. & Frizelle, P. (2024). The effectiveness of individualized morphosyntactic target identification and explicit intervention using the SHAPE CODING system for children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and the impact of within-session dosage. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 55, 803-837. Link. Accepted version. Poster.