Dr. Sinéad McNally

Sinéad joined the team in 2010 as a Research Fellow and is based in the Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She is primarily involved in the quantitative aspects of the study. Sinéad is also a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, TCD, where she is currently working on a longitudinal study of early language development in typically developing infants and at-risk infant siblings of children with autism.

Sinéad received her B.A. in French and Psychology (TSM) from TCD in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from TCD in 2009. She has worked with children with autism in a behavioural setting before, and during, her doctoral research and she is interested in the development and practice of policy-relevant research in child psychology. She held a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship in Science, Engineering and Technology (2005-2009) for her doctoral research entitled, ‘Against Theoretical Eclecticism and in Support of a Unified Conceptual Framework for Autism Intervention’. During her postgraduate studies, she also received funding from the National Council of Special Education for work highlighting the critical role of theory in autism intervention research (NCSE Research Initiative 2007). Her main research interests are psycholinguistics, developmental disorders and intervention, and theoretical issues in quantitative psychological research.

Phone: 01 8963372
Email: mcnalls1@tcd.ie