"Bernard joined City University London as a lecturer in 2005, while completing his PhD within the Division of Language and Communication Science. Bernard is a senior lecturer and teaches on speech and literacy development and on assessment and intervention with children with speech, language and communication difficulties. He was the Programme director for the BSc (Hons) in Speech and Language Science (formerly Human Communication) until January 2015 and takes/took over as Programme director for the PGDip/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy in January 2015. He is also module leader for ""Professional Studies"" (SLM005) within the first year of the PGDip/Msc in Speech and Language Therapy and the director of the ""Compass Centre"", the in-house teaching and research clinic of the Division of Language and Communication Science. Bernard completed his postgraduate studies at City University, first completing an MSc in Human Communication and subsequently a PhD on Dynamic Assessment of children's word learning abilities. In 2007 Bernard was joint guest editor (together with Prof. James Law, University of Newcastle) for a Special Edition on Dynamic Assessment of the journal Advances in Speech-Language Pathology and has continued to carry out and publish research on dynamic assessment of children's language, as well as other areas related to children's language. He has also presented at a number of national and international conferences which bring together professionals from a range of disciplines including psychology and education as well as speech and language therapy."

Language and cognition, Natural history of speech and language impairments