Dr. Carol Stott, BSc PhD (Cantab) CPsychol., is an Academic Developmental Psychologist with over ten years of research experience in the epidemiology and measurement of childhood developmental disorders (CDDs). She has a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Psychology from the University of Manchester UK, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in the Epidemiology, Identification, and Outcome of Specific Language Impairment (SLI). She has been a member of the International SLI Consortium on the Genetics of Specific Language Impairment (SLIC) since its inception in the mid-1990s, and has acted as a Specialist Advisor to the UK Medical Research Council Review on the Causes of Autism (2002) and the UK All Parties Political Group on Autism (2002). Her primary interest in recent years has been in psychometric epidemiology and the phenotypic profiling of disorders of communication, including autism, autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and SLI. Dr. Stott was instrumental in developing a regional computer-based outcomes-management system to facilitate outcomes research in clinical child and adolescent mental health services in the UK.

Her current focus is to bring her experience in epidemiology and measurement theory to the field of research into biomedical and environmental factors and their role in the causality and outcomes of childhood developmental disorders. Dr Stott has numerous academic publications and has presented to international professional and academic conferences, as well as within the UK.