Rate My Professor Tricia Eadie

Eadie earned her PhD from La Trobe University, Graduate Diploma from the University of Technology Sydney, and Bachelor's Degree. Her research focuses on early childhood language and literacy development, speech sound disorders, stuttering onset and persistence, developmental language disorders, and factors influencing teacher-child interactions and educator wellbeing. She contributed significantly to the Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS), a prospective community cohort examining predictors of language outcomes from infancy to school age. Notable publications include 'Predicting language outcomes at 4 years of age: Findings from Early Language in Victoria Study' (Pediatrics, 2010), 'Speech sound disorder at 4 years: prevalence, comorbidities, and predictors in a community cohort of children' (Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2015), 'Predicting language at 2 years of age: a prospective community study' (Pediatrics, 2007), and 'Early childhood educators’ wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic' (Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021). With over 7,000 citations, her scholarship informs policy and practice, including the EDGE study on three-year-old kindergarten impacts. She serves on the Victorian Children's Council and is affiliated with Speech Pathology Australia.