Tanya Rose

Dr. Tanya Rose is a certified practising speech-language pathologist serving as Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, at the University of Queensland. She earned her Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours), Doctor of Philosophy, and Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from the University of Queensland. Her PhD, completed in 2010, focused on written stroke and aphasia information preferences of people with aphasia, conducted within the Communication Disability Centre. Rose has extensive experience in mixed-methods research and has held academic positions supported by UQ ResTeach funding. She has also maintained a clinical practice as a speech-language pathologist.

Rose's research specializations include family-centred models of care and client outcomes for young children who are late talkers or have developmental language delay or disorder, employing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework. She investigates accessible health information provision for adults with post-stroke aphasia and their families, with a focus on patient education and service access across the care continuum. Key publications encompass foundational works such as 'Do people with aphasia receive written stroke and aphasia information?' (Aphasiology, 2009), 'Guiding principles for printed education materials: design preferences of people with aphasia' (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012), and 'Aphasia friendly written health information: Content and design characteristics' (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011). Recent contributions include 'Optimal child-led goal setting practices for school-aged children with a disability or delay: an international Delphi consensus study' (Disability and Rehabilitation, 2025), 'Speech and communication classification of children with cerebral palsy: novice rater agreement and clinical utility' (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2025), 'Child-led goal setting and evaluation tools for children with a disability: a scoping review' (Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 2024), and 'Experiences of childhood stroke and aphasia during adolescence: an analysis of YouTube videos' (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023). She has authored or co-authored 87 works from 1985 to 2025, including journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Rose has secured competitive funding, such as from Speech Pathology Australia for projects on aphasia research reporting templates (2021-2022) and Hanen early language programs (2020-2021), and UQ grants for communication registries and pilot studies. She supervises postgraduate research and serves as a media expert on aphasia, family-centred care, language delays, and disorders.