Belinda Seeff-Gabriel

Research associate

Profile

Belinda is a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) who obtained her Honours (Speech and Language Therapy and Audiology) and Masters (Speech Pathology) degrees in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She was awarded a Linguistics Studentship in the Department of Human Communication, UCL, where she completed her PhD.

Belinda is currently working with Tim Pring and Shula Chiat on a three year project investigating intervention for children with language difficulties through a series of single case studies. In addition to the current project, her research interests include the relationship between speech and language disorders and how this translates into efficient and effective clinical practice. Her PhD focused on the expressive syntactic abilities of children with different types of speech disorders, with particular emphasis on issues relating to assessment and co-occurrence.

Apart from her research position in the department, she works clinically with children with speech and language difficulties, and lectures both under-graduate and post-graduate students on the topics of assessment and intervention for children with speech and/or language difficulties.

Publications

• Seeff-Gabriel, B., Chiat,S. and Roy,P. (2008). Early Repetition Battery. London: Pearson Education, Inc.
• Seeff-Gabriel, B., Chiat, S. and Dodd, B. (2005). The relationship between speech disorders and language. In B. Dodd (ed.) Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Speech Disorders (2nd Edition).  London: Whurr.   
• Law,J, Dockrell, J.E., Castelnuovo,E., Williams,K., Seeff, B. and Normand,C. (2005). Early Years Centres for pre-school children with primary language difficulties: what do they cost, and are they cost-effective? International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 41(1), 67-81
• Seeff-Gabriel,B. (2005) Addressing the challenge of assessing expressive language in children with severe speech disorders. Afasic Abstract, Autumn 2005.
• Law, J, Dockrell, J., Williams, K. & Seeff, B. (2004). Comparing specialist early years provision for speech and language impaired children with mainstream nursery provision in the UK - an application of the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS). Child: Care, Health & Development, 30(2), 177-184
• Seeff-Gabriel, B. (2003). Phonological Processing: A Platform for Assisting Second-language Learners with English Spelling. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 19(3), 291-310
•  Law, J., Dockrell, J., Williams, K. & Seeff, B. (2002). What is the most effective form of Intervention for pre-school language impaired children?. RCSLT Bulletin, Issue 599, March
• Seeff, B. (2002). The IASCL/SRCLD Conference on Child Language Research. RCSLT Bulletin, Issue 606, October
• Seeff, B. & Jordaan,H. (2000). The Vowel Processing Skills of ESL Learners Related to their English Spelling Difficulties: A Psycholinguistic Approach. South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 47, 13-23
• Seeff, B. & Bortz, M. (1994). Caregiver-Child Interaction in a Rural Village in South Africa. South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 41, 73-83