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Podcast: RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Episode: IJLCD - The impact of DLD on jury perceptions
Description: Please let us know what you think of this podcast.Does knowing whether a defendant has a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder affect how mock jurors rate that defendant's levels of guilt, sentence length, credibility and blameworthiness?In this podcast we chat with Dr Hannah Hobson, Samantha Gamblen and Claire Westwood about the research they did to answer this question and what it revealed.The paper is:The impact of developmental language disorder in a defendant's description on mock jurors’ perceptions and judgementsHannah Ma...