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78 ACQ Volume 13, Number 2 2011 ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing
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Professor Lyndsey Nickels is a research speech pathologist,
currently an NHMRC senior research fellow and professor at
Macquarie University. She has a long history of research into the
nature of the impairments in acquired language disorders and their
treatment.Cathleen Taylor is Australia’s leading speech pathologist
clinician and researcher in the area of progressive aphasia. She has
established a specialist service for this client group at War Memorial
Hospital Waverley and recently chaired the 2010 Australian Aphasia
Association Biennial National Conference, where for the first time she
introduced a session devoted to the unique needs of people with
progressive aphasia.Dr Karen Croot is a lecturer in psychology at
the University of Sydney with teaching and research interests in
speech and language production. She has been researching
progressive aphasia for over 15 years, and recently co-edited with
Lyndsey Nickels the first book on intervention and management in
progressive aphasia.
Correspondence to:
Professor Lyndsey Nickels
ARC Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cognition and
its Disorders
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109
phone: +61 (0)2 9850 8448
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