Associate Professor Elizabeth Cardell
Associate Professor Elizabeth Cardell is the Head of the Speech Pathology program at Griffith University.
She has a vibrant enthusiasm for the area of communication impairment which stretches back more than 25 years.
A/Prof Cardell grew up on the Gold Coast, worked at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and completed her Masters in Speech Pathology and PhD at the University of Queensland.
The areas of psycholinguistics and stuttering have been at the forefront of A/Prof Cardell’s research. She is a strong advocate of clinically-based research which speaks to the day-to-day practices of speech pathology.
Dr Marleen Westerveld
Dr Marleen Westerveld is a Senior Lecturer at the Speech Pathology program at Griffith University. Dr Westerveld has been a practising speech-language therapist since 1987 and has extensive experience in working with children with speech, language, and reading difficulties.
She completed her PhD in Speech & Language Therapy at the University of Canterbury in 2007, and worked at Massey University, New Zealand, before joining Griffith University in 2011. Dr Westerveld is an adjunct senior research fellow at the College of Education of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Dr Westerveld's research focuses on understanding the relationship between spoken and written language disorders, with special interests in spontaneous language sampling and analysis, oral narrative development and intervention, and reading comprehension disorders.