Associate Professor Ann Packman
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Qualifications: LACST, PhD (Syd) Positions held:
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Biography
Associate Professor Ann Packman has worked for more than 30 years in the area of stuttering as a clinician, teacher and researcher. She does research into the nature and treatment of stuttering, and has a special interest in theory. She presents widely at national and international conferences, has over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and has authored and edited four books on stuttering. She recently served a three-year term as Associate Editor for Fluency for the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and is currently Associate Editor for Fluency for Language, Speech, Hearing Services in Schools. She has been granted over $11 million in research funding from NHMRC and ARC, including two NHMRC Program Grants.
Teaching and Service Responsibilities
Adjunct Associate Professor, Charles Sturt University.
Member of the Speech Pathology Advisory Board of Speak Easy, the self-help and advocacy group for people who stutter in Australia.
Research Higher Degree supervision
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- Reilly, S., Onslow, M., Packman, A., Wake, M., Bavin, E., Prior, M., Eadie, P., Cini, E., Bolzonello, C., Ukoumunne, O. 2009, ‘Predicting stuttering onset by age 3 years: a prospective, community cohort study', Pediatrics, 123, 270-277.
- Al-Khaledi, M., Lincoln, M., McCabe, T., Packman, A., & Alshatti, T. 2009, ‘The attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs of Arab parents in Kuwait about stuttering', Journal of Fluency Disorders, 34, 44-59.
- Bakhtiar, M. & Packman, A. 2009, 'Intervention with the Lidcombe program for a bilingual school age child who stutter in Iran', Folia Phoniatrica and Logopedics, 61, 300-304.
- Langevin, M., Packman, A., Thompson, R., & Onslow, M., 2009, ‘Peer responses to stuttering in the preschool setting', American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 18, 264-276.
- Packman, A. & Kuhn, L., 2009, ‘Looking at stuttering through the lens of complexity', International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 11, 77-82.
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Menzies, R., O'Brian, S., Onslow, M., St Clare, T., Packman, A., & Block, S., 2008, ‘An experimental clinical trial of a cognitive behavior therapy package for chronic stuttering', Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 1451-1464.
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Packman, A., Code, C., & Onslow, M., 2007, ‘On the cause of stuttering: Integrating theory and behavioral and brain research', Journal of Neurolinguistics, 20, 353-362.
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Jones, M., Onslow, M., Packman, A., Williams, S., Ormond, T., Schwartz, I., & Gebski, V., 2005, ‘A randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe Program of early stuttering intervention', British Medical Journal, 331, 659-661.
Selected Grants
- From discovery to innovation in stuttering treatment NHMRC Program, 2011-2015, $4.6 million
- Efficiency, access, self-management: A program of stuttering treatment research NHMRC Program, 2006-2010, $4.1 million
- Randomised trial of an innovative treatment for early stuttering NHMRC Project, 2009-2011, $421,500
- An Investigation of breathing in stuttering, ARC-Discovery, 2005-2007, $235,000
- A randomised controlled trial of three treatments for adolescent stutterers NHMRC Project, 2002-2004, $375,000