Research Students

Chris BREBNER PhD candidate (Flinders University, Australia)

Chris worked as a speech and language therapist in Singapore for several years and became interested in language screening tools for Singapore kindergarten children. She developed and normed the Singapore-English version of a language production task (Renfrew's Action Picture Test) on a large sample of English-L1/Mandarin-L2 and Mandarin-L1/English-L2 speaking children. This test is now widely used in local clinics, and Chris is writing up the theoretical implications for her doctoral thesis.

Mandy PHUA M.Soc. Sci (NUS)

Mandy worked as a volunteer at the Singapore School for the Deaf and learned sign language. She became interested in the unusually weak literacy skills of the pupils, and for her Masters research she developed language screening tools and methods of intervention. She is now a trained auditory verbal learning therapist and is working at Singapore General Hospital.

LEE Lay Choo M.Soc.Sci (NUS)

Lay Choo is a trilingual (Mandarin-Malay-English) Malaysian citizen. For her Masters research she compared the development of literacy skills in Malay by first (ethnic Malays) and second language (ethnic Chinese) speakers in Perak, Malaysia. She is now working as a Psychologist at Kandang Kerbau Hospital in Singapore.

Olivia WEE May Ling M.Soc Sci (NUS)

Olivia used a search paradigm with priming to look at skilled reading of Chinese characters, specifically the time-course of syllable and tone phonology. She developed a psycholinguistic database of subcomponent frequencies and regularities, and manipulated three levels of the orthography-phonology relationship in compound characters.

Wendy THAM M.Soc.Sci (NUS)

Wendy conducted fMRI analyses of orthographic, phonological and semantic representation in adult bilingual biscriptal readers. She established some laboratory paradigms from cognitive experimental psychology that are reliable for brain-damaged dysphasics undergoing fMRI scans. She is now working on her PhD with a scholarship from Macquarie University, Australia.

TYE Wuey Ping M.Soc. Sci (NUS)

Wuey Ping graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysi'’s (UKM) Speech and Language degree program. She was keen to strengthen her research skills and she explored the cognitive processing of Standard Malay-speakers who have sustained brain injuries using modified PALPA-type tasks. She is now working as a speech and language pathologist in Kuala Lumpur and teaches neuropsychology part-time at UKM.