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World Ranking
6943
National Ranking
1106

Overview

Shula Chiat is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Psychology. Their research focuses extensively on developmental and educational psychology, with particular attention to language development and disorders as well as reading and literacy development. Additional subfields in their work include cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, education, and genetics.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Shula Chiat has published in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Assessment and Development Matters
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Brain Sciences

Recent papers include:

  • "A comparison of formal and informal methods for assessing language and cognition in children with Rett syndrome" (2021) published in Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • "Identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial" (2024) published in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • "A Short and Engaging Adaptive Working-Memory Intervention for Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Effects on Language and Working Memory" (2022) published in Brain Sciences
  • "Nonword Repetition in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Revisiting the Case of Cantonese" (2024) published in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • "Vocabulary interventions for children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review" (2025) published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent coauthors in Shula Chiat's research include:

  • Kamila Polišenská
  • Angel Chan
  • Penny Roy
  • Nga Ching Fu
  • Rachel Kan

Best Publications

  • Words, nonwords, and phonological processes: Some comments on Gathercole, Willis, Emslie, and Baddeley

    Margaret J. Snowling;Shula Chiat;Charles Hulme

  • I, you, me, and autism: An experimental study

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  • Mapping theories of developmental language impairment: Premises, predictions and evidence

    Shula Chiat

  • A prosodically controlled word and nonword repetition task for 2- to 4-year-olds: evidence from typically developing children.

    Penny Roy;Shula Chiat

  • The Preschool Repetition Test: An Evaluation of Performance in Typically Developing and Clinically Referred Children

    Shula Chiat;Penny Roy

  • Sentence repetition: what does the task measure?

    Kamila Polišenská;Shula Chiat;Penny Roy

  • Early phonological and sociocognitive skills as predictors of later language and social communication outcomes.

    Shula Chiat;Penny Roy

  • Verb Retrieval and Sentence Production in Aphasia

    Jane Marshall;Tim Pring;Shula Chiat

  • 6. Non-Word Repetition

    Shula Chiat

  • Noun–verb dissociations: a multi-faceted phenomenon

    Maria Black;Shula Chiat

  • Calling a salad a federation: An investigation of semantic jargon. Part 1—nouns

    Jane Marshall;Tim Pring;Shula Chiat;Jo Robson

  • A Quasi-Universal Nonword Repetition Task as a Diagnostic Tool for Bilingual Children Learning Dutch as a Second Language

    Tessel Boerma;Shula Chiat;Paul Leseman;Mona Timmermeister

  • A Framework for Crosslinguistic Nonword Repetition Tests: Effects of Bilingualism and Socioeconomic Status on Children's Performance

    Shula Chiat;Kamila Polišenská

  • Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

    Magdalena Łuniewska;Ewa Haman;Sharon Armon-Lotem;Bartłomiej Etenkowski

  • Why does monitoring fail in jargon aphasia? comprehension, judgment, and therapy evidence.

    Jane Marshall;Jo Robson;Tim Pring;Shula Chiat

  • Sentence imitation as a tool in identifying expressive morphosyntactic difficulties in children with severe speech difficulties

    Belinda Seeff-Gabriel;Shula Chiat;Barbara Dodd

  • Why Mikey's right and my key's wrong: The significance of stress and word boundaries in a child's output system

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  • If I were you and you were me: the analysis of pronouns in a pronoun-reversing child

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  • Sentence processing therapy: Working at the level of the event

    J. Marshall;T. Pring;S. Chiat

  • Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages : data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)

    Ewa Haman;Magdalena Łuniewska;Pernille Hansen;Hanne Gram Simonsen

  • Phonological naming therapy in jargon aphasia: positive but paradoxical effects.

    Jo Robson;Jane Marshall;Tim Pring;Shula Chiat

  • An impairment in processing verbs' thematic roles: A therapy study

    Jane Marshall;Shula Chiat;Tim Pring

  • Evaluation of speech and language therapy interventions for pre-school children with specific language impairment: a comparison of outcomes following specialist intensive, nursery-based and no intervention.

    Aoife Lily Gallagher;Shula Chiat

  • Understanding children with language problems

    Shula Chiat

  • The relation between prosodic structure, syllabification and segmental realization: Evidence from a child with fricative stopping

    Shula Chiat

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Marshall
Jane Marshall City, University of London
Tim Pring
Tim Pring City, University of London
Margaret J. Snowling
Margaret J. Snowling University of Oxford
Theodoros Marinis
Theodoros Marinis University of Konstanz
Barbara Dodd
Barbara Dodd University of Queensland
Nicola Botting
Nicola Botting City, University of London
Chloe Marshall
Chloe Marshall University College London
Courtenay Frazier Norbury
Courtenay Frazier Norbury University College London
Paul P.M. Leseman
Paul P.M. Leseman Utrecht University
Dorothy V. M. Bishop
Dorothy V. M. Bishop University of Oxford

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