Child Language Centre

Research Group Summary

The University of Canterbury Child Language Centre conducts research on children's speech and language development and related abilities. Our current focus is on preschool and school-age children and what causes some of them to have difficulty in learning to talk.

We also provide research training to postgraduate students at the Master's and PhD levels and to undergraduate students who are in their final year of study.

Our home academic department is the Department of Communication Disorders and we are members of the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour.

Key Contact

• Thomas Klee: Co-director

Members - UC Staff

• Sharimila Magdel Adaikkalasamy: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Katherine Jane Cook: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Susan Foster-Cohen: Researcher; Language, Social and Political Sciences
• Thomas Klee: Co-director
• Catherine Moran: Researcher; New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour
• Jayne Newbury: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Ruth Mary Anne Ramsay: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Stephanie Stokes: Co-director; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Asifa Sultana: Researcher; New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour
• Catherine Theys: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing
• Gina Dawn Aitken Tillard: Researcher; School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing

• Health and Health Sciences: Audiology; Speech & Language Therapy