Master of Science (Speech & Language Pathology)
Faculty Members
Faculty members bring diverse areas of clinical and research expertise to teaching. They contribute jointly to assessment, intervention, and professional practice courses. This collaborative teaching approach promotes the development of clinical reasoning and the integration of knowledge across child and adult domains throughout the two-year MSc curriculum.
| Name | Designation | Research Area |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor Elizabeth Teh | Programme Director | 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 | Voice
• Service delivery for voice intervention |
| Ms Yu Wanling | Instructor; Clinical Education Coordinator (Child) | |
| Dr Sajlia Bte Jalil | Part-time lecturer; Clinical Education Coordinator (Adult) | Neurogenic communication and swallowing disorders Participation and real-world outcomes for individuals with communication and swallowing difficulties |
| Dr Sze Wei Ping | Adjunct Senior Lecturer | Cognitive-communication assessment (Children and adults):
• Design and norms for language and cognitive tests: Monolinguals and multilinguals • Predictors of cognitive-communication abilities for individuals with neurologogical impairments Language therapy (Adults): • Service delivery of aphasia intervention for individuals with neurological impairments |
| Ms Bak Xiao Ying | Adjunct Lecturer | Social-emotional and social communication development in childhood Emotion regulation challenges and evidence-based interventions integrating social communication skills for children with social communication deficits (eg. ASD, Social Communication Disorder) |
| Dr Emilie Lam May Yan | Research Fellow, CHILD; Assistant Programme Director, MSc SLP | Language development and intervention
• including influence of social emotional development and executive functioning; caregiver responsiveness; screening for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD); auditory processing disorders (APD); and reading and literacy Implementation science in early childhood • applying evidence-based practices for language and literacy development 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, NUS | 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 |
Staff Members
Ms Evelyn Koh, Manager Ms Hannani Binte Mohamed, Management Assistant Officer