Dr Elise Baker
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Biography
Dr Elise Baker is a lecturer with the Discipline of Speech Pathology, at the Faculty of Health Sciences. She is involved in the education and training of undergraduate and graduate speech-language pathology students, the supervision of graduate research students, and continuing education activities for qualified speech-language pathologists in her main area of interest: speech sound acquisition and disorders in children.
Dr Baker's research interests include: intervention for speech sound disorders, speech pathologists' methods of practice with children who have speech sound disorders, and, the conduct of evidence-based practice. She is also interested in the interaction between the phonological and lexical systems in word learning, and the speech, language and literacy outcomes of infants and children with a hearing loss.
Dr. Baker serves as a spokesperson for the Speech Pathology Association of Australia on the topic of speech sound disorders in children, and is a member of the New South Wales Evidence-based Practice Network Steering Committee. She has been an invited speaker at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention, and has presented invited workshops on the topic of speech sound disorders in children, throughout Australia.
Teaching and Service Responsibilities
My teaching is based on an old Chinese proverb - "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." I use a case-based approach to teaching as it involves students in the lives of children who have a speech sound disorder and their families. The real cases offer students reasons for learning, provide opportunities for critical thinking, and facilitate students' development of evidence-based clinical reasoning. I enjoy teaching and I enjoy learning from my students.
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- Baker, E. (2010). Minimal pair intervention. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod & R. J. McCauley (Eds.), Treatment of speech sound disorders in children (pp. 41-72) Baltimore, MA P.H. Brookes.
- Baker, E. & McLeod, S. (2010). Evidence-based management of phonological impairment in children. In T. W. Powell & M. J. Ball (Eds). Clinical linguistics: Critical concepts in linguistics (Vol. 4, pp. 446-469). Abingdon, Oxford, UK: Routledge.
- Baker, E., & Williams, A. L. (2010). Complexity approaches to intervention. In A. L. Williams, S. McLeod & R. J. McCauley (Eds.), Treatment of speech sound disorders in children (pp.65-116) Baltimore, MA: P.H. Brookes.
- Baker, E. (2009). The why and how of prioritising complex targets for intervention. In C. Bowen, Children's speech sound disorders (pp. 72-77). Oxford England: Willey-Blackwell.
- McCabe, P., Purcell, A., Baker, E., Madill, C, & Trembath, D. (2009). Case based learning: One route to evidence based practice. Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention. 3 (4) 208 - 219
- Gozzard, H., Baker, E., & McCabe, P. J. (2008). Requests for clarification and children's speech responses: changing ‘pasghetti' to ‘spaghetti'. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 24(3), 249-263.
- Munro, N., Lee, K., & Baker, E. (2008). Building vocabulary knowledge and phonological awareness skills in children with specific language impairment through hybrid language intervention: A feasibility study. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 43(6), 662-682.
- Baker, E. (2006). Management of speech impairment in children: The journey so far and the road ahead. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8(3), 156-163.
Selected Grants
- Carrigg, B., Parry, L., Baker, E., & Ballard, K.J. (2008). Phenotypic profiles of families with a speech-sound disorder of suspected genetic origin: Speech, oromotor, language, literacy, and cognitive characteristics. Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation. $20,000. 2008-2009
- Munro, N., Baker, E., Arcuili, J., Docking, K., & Lincoln, M. (2009). Establishing international collaborative child language research between The University of Sydney (USyd) and The University of Iowa (UIowa). International Program Development Fund and Faculty of Health Sciences, $ 20,000. 2009-2010