Dr. Helen Breadmore

In 2008 Helen was awarded a PhD by the University of Birmingham for work on profoundly deaf children's use of inflectional morphology in reading and spelling, under the supervision of Dr Andrew Olson and Dr Andrea Krott. Helen then worked at the University of Birmingham as a Research Associate for Dr Andrea Krott on a project examining EEG responses to morphological processing. In 2010 Helen was awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship during which she examined awareness of number marking during reading and trained in eye-tracking with Professor Antje Meyer. Helen moved to the University of Warwick in 2012 to work with Dr Julia Carroll as named Research Fellow and co-investigator on projects examining reading and spelling development amongst children with dyslexia, a history of repeated ear infection and profoundly deaf children. Helen joined Coventry University in 2014. 

• Breadmore, H.L., & Carroll, J.M. (2016) ‘Morphological spelling in spite of phonological deficits: Evidence from children with dyslexia and Otitis Media’. Applied Psycholinguistics.
• Carroll, J.M. & Breadmore, H.L. (2014). The role of morphology in literacy. BAToD magazine, May 2014, 29-30.
• Breadmore, H.L.; Krott, A.C. & Olson, A.C. (2014). Agreeing to Disagree: Deaf and hearing children’s awareness of subject-verb number agreement. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 67, 474-498. 
• Breadmore, H.L.; Olson, A.C. & Krott, A. (2012). Deaf and hearing children's plural noun spelling. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2169-2192.

• The impact of early speech and hearing difficulties on language and literacy development.
• Morphological processing in children with phonological difficulties: How does it relate to literacy development? Collaborative research project with Dr Julia Carroll examining the role of morphology and phonology in the reading and spelling of 8-10 year old children with dyslexia, a history of repeated ear infection and typically developing children of the same age and reading ability.

• Awareness of number marking during reading and spelling: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship studying adult and children’s awareness of number marking during reading and spelling including training in eye-tracking under the mentorship of Professor Antje Meyer.

• The Morphological and phonological skills of severely and profoundly deaf children: Collaborative research project with Dr Julia Carroll investigating morphological and phonological skills in children who are deaf.

• Language and literacy research in practice workshop: Workshop bringing together academic researchers and specialist dyslexia or speech and language teachers for a transfer of knowledge.