Formal name: Elizabeth Armstrong

Position: Senior Lecturer

Personal Title: Dr

Qualifications: BAppSc CCHS, MA(Hons) Macq, PhD Macq.

Email: Beth.Armstrong@ling.mq.edu.au

Web Pages: Selected Publications

Profile

Beth Armstrong is the Course Coordinator of the Master of Speech and Language Pathology program that began at Macquarie in 2001. She lectures on the program in the areas of acquired neurogenic speech and language disorders and clinical linguistic analysis as well as convenes units related to neurosciences, and medical and surgical issues in speech pathology, including craniofacial anomalies. She also teaches on the Master of Communication Disorders program. Prior to coming to Macquarie, Dr Armstrong lectured in the School of Communication Disorders at the University of Sydney.

Dr Armstrong's main research interests lie in the field of acquired neurogenic language disorders. Application of linguistic analyses to the discourse of individuals with aphasia has been her primary focus, operating within a systemic functional linguistic framework. She is concerned with the functional communication of individuals after stroke, or other neurological damage, and the needs of these speakers in everyday communication situations. Dr Armstrong is also interested in the nature of aphasia therapy and the construction of the therapeutic relationship from a sociolinguistic perspective.

Dr Armstrong has worked clinically in hospital settings for a number of years as a speech pathologist, her last clinical position being as Area Director of Speech Pathology for the Central Sydney Area Health Service. She was appointed a Fellow of the Speech Pathology Association of Australia in 1996 and is Founding Editor of the international journal Advances in Speech Language Pathology, first published in 1999.