Rate My Professor Brooke-Mai Whelan

Whelan's research interests focus on the rehabilitation of motor speech disorders including dysarthria from stroke, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain injury, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; brain mechanisms of speech recovery; and telerehabilitation applications. She has co-authored the book Speech and language disorders associated with subcortical pathology (2009, with Bruce Murdoch) and book chapters such as 'Be clear online – a telepractice application for dysarthria rehabilitation' (2021) and 'Assessment and treatment of cognitive-linguistic disorder in Parkinson disease' (2011). Key recent publications include 'To treat or not to treat: a scoping review of speech treatment for dysarthria in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)' (2025), 'Segmentation of the human tongue musculature using MRI: Field guide and validation in motor neuron disease' (2025), 'How do we measure dysarthria after stroke? A systematic review to guide the core outcome set for dysarthria' (2025), and 'Towards a core outcome set for dysarthria after stroke: What should we measure?' (2024). She leads the Save our Speech Study (2023-2027), funded by the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia, developing automated speech biomarkers for ALS. Whelan contributed as editorial lead for 'Speech-language neurophysiology and intervention' in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2024) and was recognized on UQ's Honour Roll Above and Beyond in 2020.