Major areas of research are in phonological and phonetic development, assessment and intervention. Other interests include general language impairment in children and implications of First Nations English dialects for speech-language pathology.
Major areas of research are in phonological and phonetic development, assessment and intervention. Other interests include general language impairment in children and implications of First Nations English dialects for speech-language pathology.
May Bernhardt researches and teaches in the areas of speech and language development, impairments and intervention. Relevant background to those pursuits includes university training, professorial employment, and most importantly, many years as a mother and aunt. She is also a certified speech-language pathologist with ‘outside’ interests of yoga, outdoor recreation, music and theatre. For research, she collaborates with (a) faculty in Linguistics, Psychology and Educational Psychology and Special Education at UBC and elsewhere, (b) with other speech-language pathology researchers in Canada, the US, Australia, Europe and Asia and (c) with faculty and community educators in Aboriginal studies.