Master of Science (Speech & Language Pathology)
Faculty Members
| Name | Designation | Research Area |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor Elizabeth Teh | Director; Teaching areas: Child Language & Speech; ASD | Social cognition
• Normal and atypical development of social cognitive and emotional-processing skills • Social intervention programmes for children with ASD • Social cognitive problems and treatments in people living with dementia |
| Mr Joel Tay | Instructor: Biosciences (A & P Tutorials); Adult Swallowing & Speech; Child & Adult Voice | Voice
• Service delivery for voice intervention |
| Ms Yu Wanling | Instructor: Child Speech & Language; Clinical Education Coordinator (Paeds) | |
| Dr Sajlia Bte Jalil | Clinical Education Coordinator (Adults); Part-time Lecturer: Adult Language, Cognition & Fluency | Neurogenic communication and swallowing disorders across lifespan Participation and real-world outcomes for individuals with communication and swallowing difficulties |
| Dr Sze Wei Ping | Adjunct Senior Lecturer: Research methods & statistics; Adult Communication; Research Supervision | Cognitive-communication assessment (Children and adults):
• Design and norms for language and cognitive tests (e.g., picture description, sentence repetition): Monolinguals and multilinguals • Predictors of cognitive-communication abilities for individuals with neurologogical impairments (e.g., post-stroke and neurodegenrative diseases) Language therapy (Adults): • Service delivery of aphasia intervention for individuals with neurological impairments (e.g., post-stroke and neurodegenrative diseases) |
| Ms Bak Xiao Ying | Adjunct Lecturer | Social-emotional and social communication development in children
Emotion regulation challenges in children with social communication deficits (e.g., ASD, Social Communication Disorder)
• Evidence-based strategies integrating social communication intervention with emotional regulation support for children with social communication deficits |
| Dr Emilie Lam | Research Fellow, CHILD | Language development and intervention
• Influence of social emotional development and executive functioning on language outcomes • Influence of caregiver responsiveness on language outcomes • Screening for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in school-age children Auditory processing disorders (APD) intervention effectiveness Reading and literacy development and intervention effectiveness Implementation science in early childhood • Implementing evidence-based practices in the local context |
| Professor Twila Tardif
(Research Supervisor) |
Professor, Department of Paediatrics, NUS | Language Development Developmental Neuroscience Bilingualism |
| Associate Professor Susan Rickard Liow | Honorary Fellow, National University of Singapore | Child language development
• in bilingual typically developing children • in children with SLE Cognitive communication (Adults) • Norms for picture description tasks • Norms for sentence repetition tasks • Language abilities in adults with primary progressive aphasia or other neurological conditions • Cognitive communication abilities in older adults with hearing impairments |