Bruce Murdoch, Ph.D.
Bruce Murdoch, is currently the Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director of the Motor Speech and Neurogenic Language Disorders Research Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is internationally recognised for his research into acquired speech and language disorders of neurological origin in both adults and children. He has published 10 books and in excess of 270 articles in high impact refereed international journals in the area of motor speech and language disorders associated with a variety of neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accidents, Parkinson’s disease, brain tumors and multiple sclerosis. Professor Murdoch has also contributed in excess of 50 invited chapters to books edited by other internationally recognised researchers. He has held the position of visiting professor at several institutions in the USA and Europe. He was the Foundation President of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing from 2000-2004, and Vice-President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics from 2001-2004.

Professor Murdoch is a member of the editorial boards of Aphasiology, Journal of Medical-Speech-Language Pathology, Brain Impairment and NeuroRehabilitation, as well as Founding Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing and Editor for the Asia-Pacific Region of Acta Neuropsychologica.

The Motor Speech and Neurogenic Language Disorders Research Centre at the University of Queensland was established by Professor Murdoch in the early 1990’s and since that time, under his direction, it has become internationally recognised as a one of the most productive and influential research centres of its type world-wide. The research centre attracts numerous international visitors each year and has been influential in establishing the importance of physiologically based techniques in the assessment and treatment of neurologically based communication deficits.

Professor Murdoch in recent years has presented invited plenary addresses at international conferences in Canada, USA, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa, Hong Kong and Taiwan. During the past three years he has conducted a number of workshops on neurogenic speech/language disorders in Brazil, Sweden, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA and Canada.

Books by Author:
Handbook of Acquired Communication Disorders in Childhood
Movement Disorders in Neurologic Disease:Effects on Communication and Swallowing