Daniela Gatt

Email: daniela(dot)gatt(at)um(dot)edu(dot)mt

Dr. Daniela Gatt is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication Therapy of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Malta. She lectures on Developmental Language Disorders, Prevention and Early Intervention of Communication Disorders, Clinical Semantics and on Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in the Early Years, among others.

She was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Malta in 2010. Her thesis investigated early vocabulary production in children brought up in Maltese-speaking families. In 2007, her doctoral research earned her the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics Student Award for Excellence in Research. Her present research interests include the language skills of bilingual children with and without language impairment, as well as the early identification of bilingual language delay.

She is a member of the European Network on Communicative Development Inventories and of the Research Consortium Development of a Novel Device to Support Children with Language Impairment in a Bilingual Context (SPEECHIE) (Project R&I-2015-042 funded by the Malta Council for Science and Technology through the Technology Development Programme 2016). She is an Associate Editor of the Malta Journal of Health Sciences.