Rate My Professor Jane McCormack

Professor Jane McCormack is Professor and Head of Discipline of Speech Pathology in the School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University. A certified practising member of Speech Pathology Australia since 2003, she has worked extensively in community health clinics, schools, early intervention settings, and brain injury rehabilitation services with children who have speech, language, and communication needs. She holds appointments as Adjunct Professor at the Children's Voices Centre, Charles Sturt University, and Senate Member of the Catholic Institute of Sydney. Her research focuses on speech and language development, literacy, application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to speech pathology, collaborative practice, alternative models of speech pathology education and service delivery, early childhood, speech sound disorders in preschool children, children's perspectives on their talking, computer-assisted interventions, and multilingual speech assessment.

With over 1,700 citations, McCormack's contributions have impacted speech-language pathology, evidenced by key publications including editorship of Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-authorship of Child Development and Learning (Oxford University Press, 2018), and recent works such as A Scoping Review of Intervention Outcomes for School Students with Communication Difficulties (Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024), Drawing Talking: Listening to Children with Speech Sound Disorder (Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022), What Do Children with Speech Sound Disorders Think about Their Talking? (Seminars in Speech and Language, 2019), and Employment Decision-Making of Final Year Speech-Language Pathology and Occupational Therapy Students (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2025). She has received the Vice Chancellor's Excellence Team Award for Stewardship: Speech Pathology Speed Sessions (Australian Catholic University, 2022), Editor's Award (Speech) from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2017), National Tour Speaker award from Speech Pathology Australia (2015), Pursuit Award for Research in Childhood Disability Runner-Up (Bloorview Research Institute, 2013), Young Researcher of the Year - Humanities and Social Sciences (SCOPUS and Elsevier, 2011), Outstanding Thesis Award from Charles Sturt University Faculty of Education (2011), and The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship for Research in the Allied Health Sciences (Menzies Foundation, 2009-2010).