Lecturer in Psychology for Medicine
I am a Lecturer in Psychology for Medicine in the School of Medicine. My teaching primarily focuses on Health and Cognitive Psychology and Public Health.
I am also a visiting researcher at Newcastle University in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of Fuse and the Health Foundation Q Community.
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Teaching and supervision
I am a year one PBL tutor and I lecture in psychology and public health for Medicine.
Research interests for potential research students
- Child language development and disorders
- Intervention evaluation and relevant methodologies
- Health literacy
- Health inequalities
Research
My research interests span psychological and speech and language sciences and include child language development and disorders, early intervention, public health, health inequalities, health literacy, clinical trial methodology, and improving equitable access to provision. Much of my current work takes place in the Middle East and North Africa with Arabic-speaking children.
Publications
Article
Trebacz, Anastasia, McKean, Cristina, Stringer, Helen and Pert, Sean (2023) Piloting Building Early Sentences Therapy for pre-school children with low language abilities: an examination of efficacy and the role of sign as an active ingredient. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. ISSN 1368-2822
Khattab, Ghada, Abdelwahab, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah, Al-Shdifat, Khalid, Alsiddiqi, Zakiyah, Floccia, Caroline, Kouba Hreich, Edith, McKean, Cristina, Moitel Messarra, Camille, Odeh, Thair and Trebacz, Anastasia (2022) Promoting early language development in the Arab world and Sustainable Development Goals 3, 4, 10 and 17. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. pp. 96-101. ISSN 1754-9507
Letts, Carolyn, Garrido-Tamayo, Teresa, Ashton, Elaine and Trebacz, Anastasia (2021) Developmental Language Disorder and bilingual children: what you need to know. EAL Journal (16). pp. 36-39.
Baxter, Fran, Erceylan, Emily, Asbridge, Hannah, Stead, Hannah, Wood, Ellice, Hamill, Michelle, Higgins, Emma and Trebacz, Anastasia (2019) Six of the best - speech, language and communication awareness. NARC Magazine.
Pre-registration
Baldasera, Chloe, Dunnett, Jo, Christie-de Jong, Floor, Trebacz, Anastasia, Holkham, Jack, Swiers, Ryan and Rowlands, Gill (2024) A narrative systematic review regarding effectiveness and acceptability of interventions to improve readability of patient healthcare. [Pre-registration]
Reports, briefing/ working papers
Trebacz, Anastasia, McKean, Cristina, Semaan, Gaelle and Khattab, Ghada (2022) A rapid review of the nature and influence of responsive parent/caregiver-child interactions on early language development cross-culturally with a focus on Arabic speaking children. CRD42022371188. Other. PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews.
McKean, Cristina, Benson, Kate, Jack, Christine, Letts, Carolyn, Pert, Sean, Preston, Emily, Trebacz, Anastasia, Stringer, Helen and Wareham, Helen (2020) ISRCTN10974028: Language intervention in the Early Years - comparing the effectiveness of language intervention approaches for pre-school children with language difficulties. Other. Springer nature.
Conference or Workshop Item
McKean, Cristina, Jack, Christine, Pert, Sean, Stringer, Helen, Letts, Carolyn, Preston, Emily, Ashton, Elaine, Conn, Kate, Trebacz, Anastasia, Sandham, Jenny, Rose, Naomi and Rush, Robert (2023) A randomised controlled trial comparing the efficacy of pre-school language interventions - Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language Scheme. In: RCSLT Conference 2023, 1-2 November 2023.
Letts, Carolyn, Pert, Sean, Czaplewska, Ewa, Ashton, Elaine, Benson, Kate, Preston, Emily, Stringer, Helen, Trebacz, Anastasia, Wareham, Helen, McKean, Cristina and Jack, Christine (2020) Working with bilingual children at risk of developmental language disorder: adapting assessment and intervention for the nursery-aged bilingual child. In: NADLIC 28 Multilingual Britain: Successes, challenges and future directions, 21 November 2020, Online (Zoom).
McKean, Cristina, Stringer, Helen, Letts, Carolyn, Pert, Sean, Masidlover, Mark, Jack, Christine, Trebacz, Anastasia, Wareham, Helen, Preston, Emily, Baker, Jo and Benson, Kate (2020) Staying faithful: Exploring the challenges of treatment fidelity. In: North East SLT Research Network: Symposium. 2020, North East SLT Research Network, 1 July 2020, Online.
Trebacz, Anastasia, McKean, Cristina, Stringer, Helen and Law, James (2019) A protocol for the refinement and evaluation of language intervention for children with language difficulties in the early years. In: Child Language Symposium, 10-12 July 2019, Sheffield.
Trebacz, Anastasia (2019) Evaluating a Novel Usage-Based Speech and Language Therapy Intervention: Impact for clinical practice and children’s language and associated outcomes. In: Newcastle University Humanities and Social Sciences Showcase, 19 Jun 2019, Newcastle University.
Trebacz, Anastasia, McKean, Cristina, Stringer, Helen and Law, James (2019) Evaluating Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST); a Novel Speech & Language Intervention. In: Great North Children's Research Community Conference, 2019, Newcastle, Centre For Life.
Thesis
Trebacz, Anastasia (2022) Determining the Efficacy of a Usage-Based Language Intervention in the Early Years: A Non-Randomised Pilot Study. Doctoral thesis, Newcastle University.
- Child language development and disorders
- Language intervention
- Development and standardisation of language assessment
- Evaluation of language intervention
I previously worked as a post-doctoral research fellow under PI Professor Ghada Khattab on the 'Language in the Early Years: Tackling the roots of academic and social inequalities in Arabic-speaking children' ESRC GCRF funded project 'bulbul'.
Prior to this, I completed my PhD at Newcastle University with Professor Cristina McKean, Dr Helen Stringer, Professor James Law, and Dr Lauren Ackerman evaluating the efficacy of Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST), a novel, usage-based language intervention, through a quasi-experimental pilot study.
I also hold a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology from the University of Liverpool.