Pamela Snow
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| Website | https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/pcsnow |
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| Fields | Language, perpetrator, literacy |
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Pamela Claire Snow is an Australian speech-language pathologist and registered psychologist whose research concerns language disorders in vulnerable children and adolescents, and their implications for academic achievement and psychosocial wellbeing.[1][2] She has been a vocal critic of pseudoscientific approaches to early reading instruction and support, such as the Arrowsmith Program.[3][4]
Pamela Claire Snow completed her BAScinspeech pathology and graduate diplomaincommunication disorders at the Lincoln Institute of Health Science (subsequently absorbed into La Trobe University).[5] She completed her PhD on acquired brain injury in 1997 at La Trobe University, and then a graduate certificate in higher education at Monash University in 1998.[6] She became a registered psychologist in 2003.[1][7]
Snow worked in medical education at Monash University from 2005–2015, becoming an associate professor in 2009.[8] Since 2015, she has been a professor at La Trobe University, forming the Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab in the School of Education with Tanya Serry in 2020.[9] Through this time, her research has addressed several aspects of language development and disorders and their significance to vulnerability in early life, including mental health and youth offending.[1][2] She has also been an editor of ACQ, editorial consultant for IJSLP,[10] is on the editorial board of First Language[11] and is an Associate Editor of The Reading League [12]
Her research has impacted speech-language pathology, education, and justice ranging from how children and adolescents are interviewed as witnesses, suspects, and victims[2] through to treatment and management of rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury. [10] She also translates language and literacy instruction and support research for a general audience, particularly parents, teachers, clinicians, and policy-makers via her blog, The Snow Report.[2] She frequently speaks on how reading is taught in Australian schools[13][14][15] and has been a vocal critic of the Arrowsmith Program.[3][4][16]
Snow has additionally won editors' awards for her research publications in 2013 and 2020[18] and presented the 2015 Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture.[19]
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