Shula Chiat

Professor
School of Health Sciences
City University London
United Kingdom

Professor Healthcare
Biography

"Shula is a psycholinguist specialising in typical and atypical language development. She has worked at City University London (1982-2000, 2006 to date) and at University College London (2000-2005). After undergraduate studies in Linguistics and French at the London School of Economics, Shula undertook doctoral research on language acquisition at University College London focusing on the emergence of pronouns. Since then she has held appointments in speech and language therapy departments. Teaching on pre- and post-registration programmes has complemented her growing interest in developmental speech and language disorders and the evolution of her research activities. Her current collaborative research and research supervision focus on early assessment and identification of children at risk of language and social communication impairments, the development of cross-linguistic assessments, and evaluation of interventions motivated by theoretical and empirical evidence. "

Research Intrest

Language and speech development, Developmental language and speech disorders

List of Publications
Boerma, T., Chiat, S., Leseman, P., Timmermeister, M., Wijnen, F. and Blom, E. (2015). A Quasi-universal nonword repetition task as a diagnostic tool for bilingual children learning dutch as a second language. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(6), pp. 1747–1760. 
Chiat, S. and Polišenská, K. (2016). A framework for crosslinguistic nonword repetition tests: Effects of bilingualism and socioeconomic status on children’s performance. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(5), pp. 1179–1189.