Rate My Professor Rebecca Armstrong

Dr. Armstrong has led and collaborated on several funded projects, including 'Legal vocabulary knowledge in young people: Benchmarking typical performance on a language screener used within the youth justice setting' (2024-2026, Speech Pathology Australia), 'Addressing long waits in child development services: What do families do while waiting and how does this impact parental self-efficacy?' (2023-2026, Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service), 'Co-design of an environment that supports shared book reading within a community centre' (2021-2022, Children's Health Queensland), and 'Inter-professional collaboration between teachers and speech pathologists' (2020-2022, Speech Pathology Australia). Her key publications include co-editing the book Reading Success in the Primary Years: An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Approach to Guide Assessment and Intervention (Springer, 2020); book chapters such as 'Patterns of language development from childhood to adulthood and the associated long-term psychosocial outcomes' (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and 'Sound amplification in school contexts: implications for inclusive practice' (Routledge, 2021); and highly cited journal articles like 'The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule and narrative assessment: Evidence for specific narrative impairments in autism spectrum disorders' (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2015, 90 citations), 'Late talkers and later language outcomes: Predicting the different language trajectories' (2017, 84 citations), 'Change in receptive vocabulary from childhood to adulthood: Associated mental health, education and employment outcomes' (2017, 62 citations), and 'Interprofessional practice between speech-language pathologists and classroom teachers: A mixed-methods systematic review' (Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023). She has presented findings at national and international conferences, contributing to evidence-based practices in paediatric communication interventions. Her Google Scholar profile reflects over 430 citations.