Barbra Zupan

Biography

I am Head of Course for CB87 Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) and Associate Professor at Central Queensland University Australia, based at the Rockhampton North Campus. I am originally from Canada where I received an undergraduate degree in Applied Linguistics with a focus on Communication Disorders. In 2000, I graduated with my Masters in Speech Pathology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After graduating, I worked in the preschool sector, primarily assisting children with hearing loss to listen and talk using an auditory verbal approach. I also did worked with children who had disfluency, speech, and language challenges. In 2005, I returned to the State University of New York at Buffalo to complete a PhD in Speech Pathology. My dissertation focused on how children and adults perceive and integrate visual and auditory cues of emotion. This work extended into research with people with traumatic brain injury, with a focus on emotion recognition, empathy, alexithymia, and sex differences. In addition to publishing in academic networks, I am committed to transferring research to the community by working with clinicians to introduce them to the emotional recognition treatment programs I have created alongside my team of international researchers.

Research Interest

Medical and Applied Sciences