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Critten, Valerie; Messer, David and Sheehy, Kieron (2024). Reading Disabilities in Children with Cerebral Palsy: associations with Working Memory. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 40(4) pp. 396–411.

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Armstrong, Christina; Archer, Anji; Critten, Valerie and Critten, Sarah (2022). Art box deliveries: The experiences of people with dementia and their carers during the Covid 19 lockdown. Dementia, 21(8) pp. 2499–2516.

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Farran, Emily K.; Critten, Valerie; Courbois, Yannick; Campbell, Emma and Messer, David (2022). Spatial Cognition in Children With Physical Disability; What Is the Impact of Restricted Independent Exploration? In: Ionta, Silvio; Ortibus, Els and Aspell, Jane Elizabeth eds. Psychology and Neuropsychology of Perception, Action, and Cognition in Early Life. Research Topics. Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Media SA, pp. 127–139.

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Critten, Valerie; Hagon, Hanna and Messer, David (2022). Can Pre-school Children Learn Programming and Coding Through Guided Play Activities? A Case Study in Computational Thinking. Early Childhood Education Journal, 50 pp. 969–981.

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Messer, David and Critten, Valerie (2022). Creative Use of Digital Storytelling. In: Grove, Nicola ed. Storytelling, Special Needs and Disabilities: Practical Approaches for Children and Adults. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Farran, Emily K.; Critten, Valerie; Courbois, Yannick; Campbell, Emma and Messer, David (2021). Spatial Cognition in Children With Physical Disability; What Is the Impact of Restricted Independent Exploration? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, article no. 669034.

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Critten, Valerie (2020). From education to employment: A transition story. In: Fielden, Sandra; Moore, Mark and Bend, Gemma Louise eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Disability at Work. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115–130.

Smith, Elizabeth; Critten, Valerie and Vardill, Robert (2020). Assessing progress in children with severe/profound intellectual disabilities: what are the issues? Disability & Society, 35(10) pp. 1688–1692.

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Critten, Valerie and Kucirkova, Natalia (2019). ‘It Brings it all Back, all those Good Times; it Makes Me Go Close to Tears’. Creating Digital Personalised Stories with People who have Dementia. Dementia, 18(3) pp. 864–881.

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Critten, Valerie; Messer, David and Sheehy, Kieron (2019). Delays in the reading and spelling of children with cerebral palsy: Associations with phonological and visual processes. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 85 pp. 131–142.

Critten, Valerie; Campbell, Emma; Farran, Emily and Messer, David (2018). Visual perception, visual-spatial cognition and mathematics: Associations and predictions in children with cerebral palsy. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 80 pp. 180–191.

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Critten, Val (2016). Expectations and realisations: the employment story of a young man with cerebral palsy. Disability and Society, 31(4) pp. 573–576.

Critten, Val and Kucirkova, Natalia (2016). Digital Personal Stories: A Case Study of Two African Adolescents, with Severe Learning and Communication Disabilities. Journal of childhood and developmental disorders, 1(1), article no. 7.

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Kucirkova, Natalia; Messer, David; Critten, Val and Harwood, Jane (2014). Story-making on the iPad when children have complex needs: two case studies. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 36(1) pp. 44–54.

Critten, Valerie (2013). Literacy development in children with cerebral palsy. EdD thesis The Open University.

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