Dr. Saleh Shaalan
Director of Allied Health Services, Speech- Language Pathologist and Senior Scientist
Canada
Areas of expertise
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Developmental language disorders
- Assessment and treatment of language disorders
- Speech sound disorders,
- Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
About the expert
Professor Shaalan is a certified speech-language pathologist by 3 professional organizations in Canada, the USA and the UK. He is currently the Director of Allied Health Services at an international rehabilitation centre in UAE. He has contributed to 16 publications and conference papers and edited book chapters on assessment and treating speech disorders.
Dr Shaalan is a certified speech-language pathologist by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC) and the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) in the UK. He has practised in many countries and with a variety of populations.
He is currently the Director of Allied Health Services at an international rehabilitation centre in UAE. He is certified in ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule) and most of the commonly used tools to assess speech and language disorders. Dr Shaalan has developed many assessment tools that are widely used with Arabic-speaking clients.
He earned his PhD in Psychology & Language and Developmental Science from the University College of London in the UK in 2010 and has a master's degree in Applied Speech-Language Pathology from the School of Communication Sciences and Disorder at the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada.
He has contributed many scientific papers at international conferences and authored two chapters and peer-reviewed journals and wrote two chapters in two books published in the US, and the Netherlands. He also co-edited a special issue of the Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics (AJAL), titled Speech-Language Therapy Services in the Arab World and the Diaspora in December 2022.
Dr Shaalan held the position of Assistant Professor at Dar Al-Hikmah University in Saudi Arabia, was the instructor for the graduate course “Seminar in Autism Spectrum Disorders”, and was the External Examiner for the Clinical Research Project- the Master in Speech-Language Pathology Program.
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Director of Allied Health Services (SLP, OT/APE, PT) and Senior Scientist
2021 - TodayMohammed Bin Rashid Center for Children Operated by The New England Centre for Children
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Director of Allied Health Services (SLP, OT/APE, PT).
2018 - 2021The New England Centre for Children- Abu Dhabi
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Assistant Professor
2001 - 2002Dar Al Hikmah University-Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Speech-Language Pathologist
2001 - 2002Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Alberta- Canada
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Speech-Language Pathologist
2000 - 2001TELLIT-DIRE Academy- Montréal, Québec- Canada
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Ph.D in Division of Psychology & Language and Developmental Science
University College of London (UCL), UK.
2010
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M.Sc. in Applied Speech Language Pathology
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada
2000
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B.H.Sc (Hons.) First Class- English &Linguistics
International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM)-Malaysia
1995
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Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC) Organization (2001)
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Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)-UK (2007)
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