Yvonne Wren, Ph.D.

Yvonne Wren, Ph.D.

Yvonne Wren, Ph.D. is Director of Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit in the United Kingdom, a research center hosted within a National Health Service facility and carrying out applied research in speech-language pathology. Her primary research interests include speech sound disorder, cleft palate, and epidemiology of speech and language development and disorder. She is chief investigator of the Cleft Collective Speech and Language Study, a national cohort study of children born with cleft palate in the United Kingdom and is a collaborator of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a longitudinal community population study following the development of children over a 25-year period.