Dip SLT, M SLT, PhD
Senior lecturer
Contact details for Dr Marleen Westerveld
Research expertise
- Child language development and disorders
- Oral narrative development, disorders, and intervention
- Spontaneous language sampling and analysis
- Language-learning disabilities
- Emergent literacy development
Current teaching areas
- Professional Studies and Communication Sciences
Selected publications
- Van Bysterveldt, A. K., Westerveld, M. F., Gillon, G. T., & Foster-Cohen, S. (in press). The personal narrative skills of school-aged children with Down syndrome. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.
- Westerveld, M. (2009). Measuring reading comprehension ability in children: Factors influencing test performance. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 11(2), 81-84.
- Westerveld, M. F. (2010). Fostering story comprehension. Motivating struggling readers to engage in literature-based activities. In J. Fletcher, F. Parkhill & G. Gillon (Eds.), Motivating literacy learning in today’s world (pp. 79-87). Wellington: NZCER.
- Westerveld, M. (2011). Spontaneous language sampling and analysis in children: From research to practice. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 13(2), 63-67.
- Westerveld, M. F., & Gillon, G. T. (2008). Oral narrative intervention for children with mixed reading disability. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 24(1), 31-54.
- Westerveld, M. F., & Gillon, G. T. (2010a). Oral narrative context effects on poor readers' spoken language performance: Story retelling, story generation, and personal narratives. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12(2), 132 - 141.
- Westerveld, M. F., & Gillon, G. T. (2010b). Profiling oral narrative ability in young school-aged children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12(3), 178 - 189.
- Westerveld, M. F., Gillon, G. T., & Boyd, L. (in press). Evaluating the clinical utility of the Profile of Oral Narrative Ability in 4-year-old children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
- Westerveld, M. F., & Moran, C. A. (2011). Expository language skills of young school-age children. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 42(2), 182-193.