prof. HELEN GRECH

Professor Helen Grech is a registered audiologist and speech-language pathologist. She was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1998 by the University of Manchester, UK. Helen Grech has headed the Department of Communication Therapy within the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Malta, for 28 years. Her research interests are speech and language acquisition and disorders in multilingual populations. Helen Grech is involved in cross-linguistic research projects and Inter-Governmental COST Actions. She was awarded several research grants by the European Commission and is a regular reviewer of research proposals funded by the European Commission and other national agencies. She is a former President and an Honoured member of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.