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Formal name: Linda Cupples
Position: Head of Department,
Director, Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
Personal Title: Associate Professor
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Monash and Melbourne,
PhD Melbourne
Telephone: +61 2 9850 8788
Fax: +61 2 9850 9199
Email: Linda.Cupples@ling.mq.edu.au
Location: C5A 529
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Profile
Linda Cupples has been a member of the Linguistics Department at Macquarie University since mid-way through 1991. Prior to that time, she spent 18 months as a lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, and approximately 2 years as a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Behavioural Sciences at Macquarie University, working with Professor Max Coltheart in the area of Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Associate Professor Cupples is currently Head of the Department of Linguistics, and Director of the Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre. She convenes the Master of Communication Disorders as well as a number of units in the Master of Applied Linguistics, including LING902 (Language and Cognition) and LING927 (Reading Development and Disorders). Her main research interests are in the area of psycholinguistics, with a particular focus on sentence comprehension and production in skilled language users, disorders of sentence comprehension and production following brain damage, and reading development (especially in children and adults with disabilities). She is currently supervising MA and PhD dissertations in these and related areas.
Recent publications by Associate Professor Cupples include some book chapters and numerous articles in international, peer-reviewed journals. In 1998-2000 she collaborated with Dr Teresa Iacono from the Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria in creating the Assessment of Phonological Awareness and Reading (APAR), a theoretically motivated and empirically tested assessment protocol designed specifically for use with non-speaking individuals. Both the APAR and the AWRI (Accessible Word Reading Intervention) are freely available via the WWW for use by clinicians working with people with complex communication needs (http://cddh.med.monash.edu/accessability.html)
Research Interests
- sentence comprehension and production in skilled language users
- acquired disorders of sentence comprehension and production
- reading development and disorders
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