Rate My Professor Tricia McCabe

Professor Tricia McCabe is Professor of Speech Pathology and Head of Discipline in the Sydney School of Health Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology (Honours), PhD (1994), Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist (CPSP), all associated with the University of Sydney. Her research specializations centre on enhancing diagnosis and interventions for moderate to severe speech impairments in children and adults, with a primary focus on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), phonological disorders, dysarthria, and application of motor learning principles and biofeedback technologies such as ultrasound. McCabe developed the Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) treatment, validated through randomized controlled trials, including a 2015 study comparing ReST to the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme-Third Edition, which demonstrated ReST's superiority in improving speech accuracy and prosody. Additional RCTs support its efficacy in face-to-face and telehealth formats. She has authored 75 peer-reviewed journal articles, with highly cited works including 'Differential diagnosis of children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech' (2015, 286 citations), 'A systematic review of treatment outcomes for children with childhood apraxia of speech' (2014, 236 citations), 'A treatment for dysprosody in childhood apraxia of speech' (2010, 224 citations), and the aforementioned RCT (189 citations). Her scholarship has garnered over 4,700 citations.