Health Sciences

School of Human Communication Sciences

Ms Tanya Serry
Lecturer

Tel: 03 9479 1818

Fax: 03 9479 1874

Email: t.serry@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

• B. App. Sc. (Speech Pathology) Lincoln Institute, Melbourne Australia
• M. A. (Applied Linguistics) University of Melbourne, Australia
• Ph.D Scholar - Towards an integrated model for managing children with reading difficulties in the early years of school

Areas of Interest

• Phonological development, assessment and intervention in children (including computer assisted analysis)
• Language development and language for learning development
• Phonological awareness and pre-literacy skill acquisition relationships between language and literacy
• Predictive factors that may impact on learning to read
• Programs and strategies for supporting children with reading difficulties
• Screening tools for preschool children
• Bilingualism
• Speech and language development in young children using a cochlear implant
• Conversation analysis (CA)

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Teaching, Clinics and Supervision

• PBL Facilitator for Master of Speech Pathology program
• Supervision of student research projects in areas including:
  • Assessment of phonological awareness in older children
  • Computer assisted phonological awareness training
  • Classroom based phonological awareness training
  • Correlations between phonological awareness and word recognition testing
  • Bilingual assessment practices in Australia
  • Bilingual assessment practices in Singapore
  • Parent focused language screening tools
• Lecturer
• Clinical supervision
• Subject Examiner
• Case Development for Master of Speech Pathology Problem Based Learning program

Research

PhD topic: This project focuses on support and management options for young children with reading difficulty. In particular, it aims to explore the mismatch between scientific evidence and current policies and management practices operating in Australian schools. In-depth understanding will be sought by collecting data from a variety of stakeholders and policy documents.

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Past Research

• Phonetic inventory acquisition in young cochlear implant users
• Acquisition of consonant clusters in young cochlear implant users
• CASALA - Computer Aided Speech and Language Analysis Progress of receptive and expressive language acquisition in young cochlear implant users
• Language impaired children's responses to ambiguous and unambiguous questions
• Correlation between teacher perception and maternal education levels for strong and weak readers at mid-primary level

Publications

Serry, T. and Joffe, B. (2004). Differential Diagnosis: How practical is it for paediatric Speech Pathologists? Acquiring knowledge in speech language and hearing 6 (1) pp. 3 - 4

Serry, T. A. & Blamey, P. J. (1999) A 4-Year Investigation into Phonetic Inventory Development in Young Cochlear Implant Users. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 42 141 - 154.

Serry, T. (2000) "A Consumer Speaks": ACQ, 2(2) p.75.

Serry, T. (2001) "A Consumer Speaks". ACQ, 3(1) p.38.

Serry, T. (1999) "Outside the Square". ACQ, 1(2) p.26.

Serry, T.A. & Blamey, P. J. (1998) Aspects of Speech and Language Development in Young Cochlear Implant Users: A Four Year Investigation. Under review: Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders.

Blamey P, Sarant J, Serry T, Wales R, James C, Barry J, Clark G, Wright M, Tooher R, Psarros C, Godwin G, Rennie M, & Meskin T. (1998) Speech Perception and Spoken Language in Children with Impaired Hearing. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Volume 6, 2615-2618, 1998.

Serry, T., Blamey, P., Spain, P., & James, C. (1997). CASALA: Computer Aided Speech and Language Analysis. Australian Communication Quarterly, Spring 1997, 27 - 28.

Serry, T., Blamey, P., & Grogan, M. (1997) Phoneme Acquisition in the first four years of implant use. American Journal of Otology, 18 (Suppl.) 122- 124.

Parsons, C.L., Russell, J.W., Malesa, K. A., Korn, T.A., Morris, L., Skafte, B., & Harrison, J. (1986) Language Impaired Children's Responses to Ambiguous and Unambiguous Instructions. Australian Journal of Human Communication Disorders, 14(2), 65 -73 (Maiden name KORN)

Textbooks

Joffe, B. and Serry, T. Ch. 11. The evidence base for the treatment of articulation and phonological disorders in children. In: Reilly, S., Douglas, J. & Oates, J. (2004) Evidence Based Practice in Speech Pathology. London: Whurr)

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