Stephen Parsons

Stephen Parsons is a speech and language therapist, trainer and author of practical language development resources for teachers and speech and language therapists / speech-language pathologists. From 1996–2017, Stephen worked as a speech and language therapy service manager in Hackney and the City of London. With 30 years’ experience in the field, he is co-author of bestselling Speechmark resources Language for Thinking (2nd edition, 2017), Word Aware (2013) and Word Aware 2 (2017). Stephen graduated in speech pathology from Flinders University in Australia before attaining an MSc in speech and language therapy from City University (London) in 2000. He currently serves as Chair of NAPLIC, the association for professionals working with children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder.