Professor Mark Onslow
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Qualifications:PhD, The University of Sydney
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Biography
Professor Mark Onslow is the Foundation Director of the Australian Stuttering Research Centre at the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. His background is speech pathology, in which field he holds a Bachelor of Applied Science, Master of Applied Science, and a Doctorate.
During the period 2004-2008 he was a Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, being the only speech pathologist to have received that distinction. In addition to his academic appointment at The University of Sydney, he is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Retained Professor at the National Taipei College of Nursing, Taiwan. Professor Onslow leads a team awarded two multi-million dollar research grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council to develop treatments for stuttering.
Professor Onslow's research interests are the epidemiology of early stuttering in preschoolers, mental health of those who stutter, measurement of stuttering, and the nature and treatment of stuttering. The Australian Stuttering Research Centre has published the majority of the world's speech pathology clinical trials for stuttering treatment.
He has taught university courses in stuttering management in three countries, and currently teaches research methods to doctoral students at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre. He is a member of the international Lidcombe Program Trainers' Consortium and has authored 250 publications dealing with stuttering including journal articles, books and chapters.
Teaching and Service Responsibilities
- Primary Supervisor to 3 Postgraduate students
- Associate Supervisor to 5 Postgraduate students
- Adjunct Professor, The University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Retained Professor, National Taipei College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan
- Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Research Opportunities
Selected Publications
- Carey, B., et al. 2010, ‘A randomised controlled non-inferiority trial of a telehealth treatment for chronic stuttering: the Camperdown Program', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 45, 108-120.
- Langevin, M., Packman, A., Thompson, R., & Onslow, M. 2009, ‘Peer responses to stuttered utterances', American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 18, 264-276.
- 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.
- Iverach, L., et al. 2009, ‘The relationship between mental health disorders and treatment outcome among adults who stutter', Journal of Fluency Disorders, 34, 29-43.
- Iverach, L, et al. 2009, ‘Prevalence of anxiety disorders among adults seeking speech therapy for stuttering', Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2, 928-934.
- Lewis, C., Packman, A., Onslow, M., Simpson, J. A., & Jones, M. 2008, ‘A Phase II trial of telehealth delivery of the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering
- Menzies, R., et al. 2008, ‘An experimental clinical trial of a cognitive behavior therapy package for chronic stuttering', Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 51, 1451-1464.
- Jones, M., Onslow, M., Packman, A., Williams, S., Ormond, T., Schwarz, T., & Gebski, V. 2005, ‘Randomised controlled trial of the Lidcombe Program for early stuttering intervention', British Medical Journal, 331, 659-661.
Selected Grants
- NHMRC Program Grant, 2011-2015, $4.8 million
- NHMRC Program Grant, 2006-2010, $4.4 million
- NHMRC Project Grant, 2009-2011, $462,350
- ARC Discovery Grant, 2009-2011, $334,000
- ARC Linkage Grant, 2010, $650,000