Dr Cate Madill

Qualifications: 1991 : BA (Hons) - Flinders 1998 : BAppSc.(Speech Pathology) (Hons) University Medal) Sydney 2008 : PhD - Sydney Positions held: Lecturer, Speech Pathology UOS Co-ordinator for CSCD5018(Core Studies), CSCD 5025(Specialist Studies in Voice), CSCD2062 (Motor Speech & Dysphagia) CSCD 3086 (Voice & Voice Disorders). Fourth Year Coordinator, BAppSc (Speech Pathology) Manager Voice Research Laboratory Honorary Associate Children's Hospital at Westmead Voice Clinic. Contact information

Biography

Cate originally trained as an actor at Flinders University of South Australia during which time she discovered the work of Jo Estill and ‘Voicecraft', an approach to voice training that focuses on empowering the individual to maximise their voice through knowledge and skill. Working as a voice coach in Sydney fuelled her interest in vocal function and disorder, leading to enrolment in & completion of a Speech pathology degree in 1998, with honours and the University medal for her research into describing vocal function.

She then worked in aged care rehabilitation services and in a specialist voice practice for the next 5 years. She has worked as a part-time lecturer in Voice in both Speech Pathology and Acting degrees for 10 years whilst completing her PhD in voice quality and personality attribution research. Since taking up a permanent position at the University of Sydney, she has expanded her research in voice into investigating the supra-normal speaking voice, principles of motor learning in voice therapy and training, laryngeal biomechanics and optimising vocal function in the treatment of professional voice users such as teachers, singers, actors barriers & public speakers.

She is currently manger and director of the University of Sydney Voice Research Laboratory. She maintains her interest in clinical work via clinical support of voice clients in the Communication Disorders Treatment & Research Clinic at Lidcombe, support of public hospital voice clinics, private practice and membership of the Australian Voice Association, the NSW Voice Interest Group and the NSW Evidence-Based Practice in Voice working group.

Teaching and Service Responsibilities

Cate is primarily responsible for teaching in both Voice Science & Disorders and Dysphagia within the discipline. She is currently advisor to fourth years. She supervises student run voice assessments of groups of professional voice users at the CDTRC (e.g. NIDA students). She is also manager of the Speech Laboratory and Voice Research laboratory.

Selected Publications

• Madill, C & McCabe, P. (in press) Praat. Handbook of Voice Assessment. Yiu, E. & Ma, E. (Eds). Plural Publishing.
• Signorelli, M., Madill, C., McCabe, P. & Heard, R. (under submission) The Management of Vocal Fold Nodules in Children: A National Survey of  Speech Language Pathologists.
• McIlwaine, A,, Madill, C. & McCabe, P. Voice Therapy Prepractice and The Principles of Motor learning. Australian Communication Quarterly.12, (1), P 29-32
• McCabe, Patricia, Purcell, Alison, Baker, Elise, Madill, Catherine and Trembath, David(2009) 'Casebased learning: One route to evidence-based practice', Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention, 3 (4) Pp 208-219
• Madill, C.J., Sheard, C. & Heard, R. (In Press) Differentiated vocal tract control and the reliability of interpretations of nasendoscopic assessment. Journal of Voice, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 August 2009 (ISI:  0. 0.953)
• Walzak, P., McCabe, P. Madill, C. & Sheard, C. (2008) The acoustic effects of actor voice training after 12 months of actor training. Journal of Voice, 22, (3), 300-313 (ISI:  0.953) ISBN :  0892-1997
• Madill, C. (2001) Differentiated vocal tract control in the treatment of voice disorders. Australian Communication Quarterly, (3), 59-62.
• Madill, C.J., Menzies, R. & Sheard, C. (2001) "What you hear is what you get..... or is it?" Relationships between perceptions of voice quality and personality. In Wilson, L. & Hewat, S. (Eds) Evidence and Innovation. Proceedings of the 2001 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. Melbourne : Speech Pathology Australia, 45 - 52.

Selected Grants

• Madill, C. (2000- 2004). National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC): Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Research Scholarship  $80, 000
• Madill, C. (2009) Travel and conference attendance grant. University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences. $3000
• Madill, C. (2008) Category A; Pre-completion Cumberland Research Grant. University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences. $5,656

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