Lizzette Gómez-de-Regil, is a Doctor in Clinical Psychology and a researcher at the “Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de la Peninsula de Yucatan”, a tertiary public hospital located in South-eastern Mexico. Her main research interests lie in the field of quality of life and psychological interventions, particularly in people with chronic illnesses or disabilities and their caregivers.
Damaris F. Estrella-Castillo, psychologist and anthropologist. Her research focuses on the characteristics that strengthen language production in deafness. She has a particular interest in family work for the social insertion of children with deafness.
Héctor Rubio-Zapata, is a physician with a doctorate in cellular and molecular neurobiology who currently works as a full professor at the UADY School of Medicine, his line of research is degenerative diseases.
Gabriela Silva-Maceda, obtained her PhD in Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is a lecturer and researcher at the School of Psychology at UASLP, Mexico. Her main research interests are centred around assessment and intervention in reading, writing, oral language, and academic achievement.
Blanca Flor Camarillo-Salazar, obtained her MSc in Psychology with an emphasis on education at UASLP, Mexico. She is currently a lecturer for the Psychology and Psychopedagogy undergraduate programs. Her research interests are focused on reading comprehension assessment and intervention in primary schools.
Flora Fung-Wan Hau, is a speech-language therapist working in the hospital setting in Hong Kong. She works with children and adults with speech, language and swallowing disorders in both the outpatient and inpatient services.
Anita Mei-Yin, Wong is a speech-language therapist and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong's research expertise is in language disorders in Chinese speaking children. Dr. Wong currently examines vocabulary intervention for bilingual children and grammar intervention for Cantonese Chinese speaking children.
Megan Wai-Ying Ng, is a speech-language therapist working in a non-profit education and rehabilitation organization in Hong Kong. She works primarily with children with speech and language disorders from a wide age range.
Paméla McMahon-Morin, is a school-based speech-language pathologist and a Ph.D. candidate, École d'orthophonie et d'audiologie at the Université de Montréal. Her research interest is the participation of children with communication in classroom activities and social interactions between people with a communication disorder and their communication partners.
Stefano Rezzonico, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal and a researcher at Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal and at the Institut Universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal. His area of expertise is in typical and atypical language acquisition, pragmatics, and bilingualism.
Natacha Trudeau, is Director of the École d’orthophonie et d’audiologie at the Université de Montréal, and a researcher Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal and Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ste-Justine in Montréal. She studies typical and atypical language development in French-speaking and bilingual populations and the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underlying the use of symbols in Augmentative and Alternative Communication.
Claire Croteau, Ph.D, associate professor, École d'orthophonie et d’audiologie, Université de Montréal and researcher, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal. Her area of expertise is social interactions between people with a communication disorder and their communication partners.
Julie Kent, is a senior lecturer and course leader on the Childhood Studies course at Nottingham Trent University.
Her research interests are in the communication environment in Early Years settings and the interface between health and education in the support for children’s Speech, Language and Communication Needs.
Sarah McDonald, is a clinical psychologist with a strong research interest in using implementation science and qualitative approaches to understand implementations in clinical settings. Sarah was a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University at the time of the research and has recently moved to the NHS Nottinghamshire Eating Disorder Service as a practitioner psychologist.
Alycia Cummings, is an Associate Professor and certified speech-language pathologist in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Idaho State University. Her research program is focused on identifying the underlying mechanisms of developmental speech sound disorders in order to improve intervention efficiency and effectiveness.
Kristen Giesbrecht, is a certified speech-language pathologist with research interests in the assessment and intervention of speech and language disorders in children. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of North Dakota and is currently employed for Rehabilitation Services at Boundary Trails Health Centre in Manitoba, Canada.
Janet Hallgrimson, is a certified speech-language pathologist currently employed at Back 40 Speech and Language in The Pas, Manitoba, Canada. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of North Dakota. Her research interests involve intervention intensity and the effectiveness of academic vocabulary in speech intervention.
