Rate My Professor Brooke Ryan

Dr. Brooke Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Allied Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. As a certified practising Speech Pathologist holding qualifications BSpPath(Hons), PhD, CPSP, and membership of Speech Pathology Australia, she focuses her professional career on research and education in acquired communication disorders, with a primary emphasis on stroke aphasia. In her teaching portfolio, Ryan covers aphasia management, service delivery models, counselling, and coaching, while supervising postgraduate students pursuing PhD, MPhil, Masters, and Honours degrees in speech pathology-related research.

Ryan's research specializations include preventing depression in people with aphasia through programs like the Aphasia Action Success Knowledge (ASK), promoting consistent inclusion of individuals with aphasia in stroke clinical trials, analyzing language demands of cognitive behavioural therapy for those with aphasia and developmental language disorder, and assessing mental health literacy among speech pathology students. Her contributions feature in peer-reviewed journals, with key publications such as 'Preventing depression in aphasia: A cluster randomized control trial of the Aphasia Action Success Knowledge (ASK) program' (2023), 'Towards the Consistent Inclusion of People With Aphasia in Stroke Trials: A Modified Delphi Consensus Study' (2022), 'Inclusion of People With Aphasia in Stroke Trials' (2024), 'Aphasia, depression, and psychological therapy (ADaPT)' (2025), '"Why Would Someone like Me with DLD Want to Sit in a Room and Talk? How Would that Make Me Feel Better?" Developmental Language Disorder and the Language Demands of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy' (2025), and 'Efficacy of a prewriting intervention: A pilot randomised controlled trial' (2025). Funded by National Health and Medical Research Council grants including 11533236, her work supports international efforts in aphasia recovery via the Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation. Ryan also serves on the board of the Australian Aphasia Association, previously as Treasurer, facilitates online support groups, and organized the association's 2023 conference in Perth.