Dr Kimberley Docking

Dr Kimberley Docking
Position Lecturer  
Qualifications BSpPath(Hons) University of Queensland 1998
PhD University of Queensland  2003
 
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Memberships

Registered member Speech Pathologists Board of Queensland
Member of Academy of Aphasia
Member of International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP)
International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Aphasia Committee member
Childhood Tumour International Research Group member

 

Current Areas of Research

Neurophysiological and neuroimaging techniques in the assessment of paediatric language disorders in acquired populations, such as following treatment for major childhood cancer, traumatic head injury, childhood stroke, and epilepsy.

Language changes, resolution patterns, and underlying neuroplasticity mechanisms that occur over time following acquired brain injury in childhood, and possible long-term effects from treatment for childhood brain tumour.

Communication deficits in childhood populations of leukaemia.

Predicting the patterns of developmental language acquisition and documenting the precursors for language impairment in normative populations using neurophysiological techniques.

 
Faculty Research Group Disability and Community Research Group
Communication and Inclusion Team
 
     
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