Research Grant awardees

Speech Pathology Australia, the national peak body for speech pathologists working in Australia, is committed to promoting and funding high quality research into all aspects of speech pathology practice.

On this page is a list of Research Grant awardees.

Year	Awarded to	Grant Category	Project Title
2021	Lizz Hill	New Researcher	Language and mental health among children with dyslexia following transition to secondary school
2021	Jennifer Kefford	New Researcher	Understanding the nature and prevalence of feeding disorders in young children with food allergies
2021	Ronelle Hewetson	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Development of an education resource for healthcare consumers and providers to support relationship maintenance in people with right hemisphere damage
2021	Chelsea Whillans	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	A systematic review of the use and safety of radiographic contrast media for patients across the lifespan undergoing swallowing evaluation
2021	Marleen Westerveld	Nadia Verrall	Inferential narrative comprehension in young school-age children on the Autism spectrum
2021	Tia Croft & Belinda Kenny	Clinician-Researcher Partnership	Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study (VFSS) in the real-world: Exploring factors that lead a speech pathologist to recommend a VFSS in the acute setting
2020	Angela Canning	New Researcher	Oral feeding safety and aspiration risk in infants and children receiving nasal high flow respiratory support: Prospective cohort study.
2020	Sharon Smart, Irene Orkopoulos & Mary Claessen	Clinician-Researcher Partnership	Objective measures of tongue structure and function in bottle-fed infants with ankyloglossia (tongue-tie).
2020	Lisa Anemaat	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Co-design of the Queensland Aphasia Rehabilitation Centre
2020	Emma Finch	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Exploring communication needs following minor stroke
2020	Helen Smith	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Using co-design to develop a supportive shared book reading environment within a vulnerable Queensland community centre.
2019	Caroline Baker	New Researcher	Optimising mood and wellbeing with aphasia after stroke: a feasibility study of Prevention Intervention and Support in Mental health (Aphasia PRISM).
2019	Chloe Walton	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	‘PhoRTE: Let’s get loud! A feasibility study investigating a low intensity treatment approach for the management of hypophonia in progressive neurological diseases
2019	Rebecca Nund	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Food Service Industry Worker’s Perspectives of Dysphagia
2019	Artemi Vella	Nadia Verrall	‘Speech production of Australian children with mild hearing loss at 5 years of age: preparing children for school’
2019	Sarah Gravina, Stephanie Fornaro, Shane Erickson & Kate Bridgeman - La Trobe University.	Clinician-Researcher Partnership	Outcomes from the implementation of a state-wide telepractice delivered Lidcombe Program service for primary school aged children who stutter.
2018	Dr Stacie Attrill	New Researcher	Being a culturally and linguistically diverse speech pathologist in Australia: exploring practice experiences and perspectives
2018	Emily Armstrong	New Researcher	‘Exploring and facilitating effective intercultural communication in early childhood assessment contexts: Working together for understanding of Yolŋu children’s strengths and needs’
2018	Dr Thuy Frakking	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Application of pulse rate on paediatric videofluoroscopic swallow studies
2018	Dr Tanya Rose	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Development of a standardised tool to capture parents’ use of language facilitation strategies’
2018	Nicole McGill	Nadia Verrall	Use of a website to facilitate active waiting for speech pathology
2017	Frances Cochrane	New Researcher	How do Indigenous Liaison Officers support speech pathology services for Indigenous Australian adults with acquired neurogenic communication disorders?
2017	Victoria Sandham	New Researcher	The Evidence-Based Practices of Australian speech pathologists in providing communication services to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
2017	Dr Samantha Siyambalapitiya	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Management of bi/multilingual aphasia in a hospital and health care setting: what happens in real-world clinical practice?
2017	Marleen Westerveld	Queensland Registration Board Legacy Grant	Examining the visual attention to print vs. pictures during school book reading in pre-schoolers with autism
2017	Ruth Braden	Nadia Verrall	Investigating the Definition and Phenotype of Congenital Perisylvian Disorders