Rachel Rees

Rachel Rees serves as Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Language & Cognition department at University College London, where she has progressed from part-time tutor to her current academic role since joining full-time in 2002. She chairs the board of examiners for the MSc Speech and Language Sciences and teaches across multiple modules including SLAN0003, SLAN0004, and SLAN0005.

Her research focuses on Cued Speech interventions for deaf children's language development, communication strategies for families of pre-school deaf children, and psycholinguistic assessment of speech disorders. She leads a current project evaluating Cued Speech training for phoneme identification and serves on the Academic Advisory Council of the National Cued Speech Association in the US.

Dr Rees' publication history demonstrates consistent contributions to speech-language pathology, with recent work addressing terminology standardization in developmental language disorders, interventions for co-occurring speech and language difficulties, and the experiences of diverse students in speech therapy training programs.

• UCL Provost's Education Award (2018)
• Senior Fellowship from Higher Education Academy (2015)

With 20 years of prior experience as an NHS speech and language therapist specializing in deafness, she brings extensive clinical expertise to her academic role. She previously managed speech and language therapy services for deaf people across multiple London health authorities and contributed to developing the Advanced Clinical Studies course in Speech Therapy with Deaf People approved by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.