Rate My Professor Arpita Bose

Dr. Arpita Bose is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading, where she has held her position since at least 2017. A clinically trained Speech-Language Therapist, she possesses over 30 years of combined clinical and research experience. Bose earned her PhD from the University of Toronto, followed by research training at the University of Toronto and the University of Windsor in Canada, focusing on aphasia and other neurogenic disorders. Prior to her current role, she joined the University of Reading as a postdoctoral research associate. She serves as module convenor for PL3ISL: Introduction to Speech and Language Pathology and is a member of the School Research Ethics Committee. Her career includes contributions to aphasia research groups and projects aimed at understanding communication difficulties post-neurological events.

Bose's research investigates the interplay of cognitive, linguistic, and speech motor processes in language production among monolingual and bilingual populations, including those with aphasia, dementia, and healthy ageing. She employs multidisciplinary approaches from psycholinguistics, experimental psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and speech-language therapy to develop improved assessment and intervention strategies. Key interests encompass bilingualism and multilingualism in aphasia and dementia, particularly language-specific deficits in South Asian languages; language production in bilingual ageing and cognition; decision-making capacity in aphasia; and multi-method analyses of language production difficulties in neurogenic disorders. Notable projects include leading the Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL) project, a protocol for connected speech tasks examining cross-linguistic grammatical profiles in aphasia, and serving as co-investigator on the British Academy-funded Database of Acquired Language Impairment Profiles (DALIP). She has secured funding from the British Academy Research Grants, Small Research Grant Scheme, UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge Catalyst Award, and the University of Reading's Center of Literacy and Multilingualism Pump Priming Grant. Key publications feature 'Connected speech characteristics of Bengali speakers with aphasia' (2021), 'Performance difference in verbal fluency in bilingual and monolingual speakers' (2020), 'Decision-making capacity in aphasia: SLT's contribution in England' (2017), 'Importance of task selection for connected speech analysis in aphasia' (2022), 'Universal and language-specific connected speech characteristics in Bengali-English bilingual speakers with Alzheimer's disease' (2024), and 'Aphasia in South Asian Languages (ASAL) project: a protocol of connected speech tasks' (2025). Her work advances clinical practices for diverse linguistic populations and theoretical models of language impairment.