The Communication Disability Centre (CDC) has been established to enhance the lives of people experiencing communication disability.
Communication disability refers to the impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions that affect an individual’s ability to interact and engage with the world in ways that are meaningful to them and those they communicate with.
We aim to help people affected by communication disability through finding strategies for prevention and intervention, research that translates to practice, disseminating research findings and educating speech pathology and audiology students and graduates.
Find out more about CDC research projects here.
foster relationships with key stakeholders in the research process to optimise impact and clinical relevance.
deliver education to undergraduate and graduate speech pathologists and audiologists.
We welcome enquiries from prospective research students (Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) who are interested in the area of communication disability.
The communication research registry was created to help improve services for people with communication difficulties. It is free to join and available to people of all ages with a communication difficulty and their support network. Find out more at www.ccregistry.org.au.
The CDC is led by Professor Louise Hickson and Professor Linda Worrall along with a dynamic research team of audiologists and speech pathologists.