Maria Kambanaros is Associate Professor of Speech Pathology and Rehabilitation in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus.
She is a certified bilingual English–Greek Speech Pathologist with over 30 years clinical experience and academic appointments in Greece and Cyprus. She received her bachelor degree in speech pathology and later on her PhD qualification from Flinders University of South Australia (Australia), School of Medicine, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. Her research interests in relation to developmental and acquired language disorders predominantly focus on the lexicon, with an emphasis on word retrieval impairments. She has published extensively on lexical access deficits for verbs and nouns in aphasia, specific language impairment (SLI), schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and dementia. She has also pioneered hypothesis driven research on assessment and description of language deficits in aphasia and specific language impairment for monolingual, bilectal and multilingual Greek speakers.
She is currently involved in COST Action IS1406 on Enhancing children’s oral language skills across Europe and beyond (http://www.research.ncl.ac.uk/costis1406).

Susan, Rvachew, Ph.D., S-LP(C), ASHA Fellow, is a Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University. Her research is concerned with the acquisition of speech during the infant period and the development of effective interventions to treat speech sound disorders and prevent subsequent literacy impairments. She is the author of over 60 scientific papers and two books, Rvachew and Brosseau-Lapré (2018). Developmental Phonological Disorders: Foundations of Clinical Practice. Plural Publishing, Inc. and Brosseau-Lapré and Rvachew (forthcoming). Introduction to Speech Sound Disorders. Plural Publishing, Inc. She has also developed several software tools to facilitate speech-language assessment and intervention.