Senior Lecturer and Academic Sessional
School of Humanities & Educational Studies and Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Education Faculty Office
Course Director for BA Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Studies
I am the Course Director/Lead for the BA (Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Studies) course. I also teach as a Senior Lecturer. My background is in Speech and Language Therapy.
I have worked as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist/Autism Specialist for over 10 years. I graduated from the University of Malta as a Speech and Language Therapist and later earned my Masters Degree in Education (Speech and Language Difficulties) from the University of Birmingham. My Masters dissertation focused on "Evaluating Parent Professional Partnership". I later completed a Professional Doctorate at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh focusing on "Visual Support Systems in Autism". I describe myself as a passionate clinician specialising in Autism and parent-professional partnership models of service delivery.
My research interests are Visual Support Systems, Autism and Collaborative Models of Practice.
Mallia Borg, R. (2011) Evaluating Parent-Professional Partnership: Partnership as perceived by parents of an Early Intervention Service for children with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder within a city health board area of the Republic of Ireland. Poster presented at the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists Biannual conference. November 25th-26th 2011. Dublin.
Mallia Borg, R. (2013) Effects on parents’ understanding of and attitudes towards using visual support systems, following an interactive and multimedia training programme for parents of young children with Autism. Oral Presentation. Presented at Queen Margaret University. May 15th 2013. Edinburgh.
Mallia Borg, R. (2017) Visual Support Systems: A qualitative evaluation of the support provided to parents of children with Autism. 1st Annual Special Needs and Inclusion Conference. Oral Presentation. Presented at Canterbury Christ Church University. October 14th 2017. Canterbury, UK.
THE MAIDSTONE AND MALLING ELSA (EMOTIONAL LITERACY SUPPORT AND ADVICE) PROVISION REPORT- APRIL 2018. Completed by colleagues from the Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Directorate, Canterbury Christ Church University. Ekins, A Hampton, T Hughes, C Hughes, L Mallia Borg, R. and Prentice, J.
Mallia Borg, R. (2019) Visual Support Systems: A qualitative evaluation of the support provided to parents of children with Autism. 18th Annual Post-Graduate Research Conference. “Education and the developing environment”. Oral Presentation. Presented at University of Birmingham. November 30th 2019. Canterbury, UK.
VISUAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR AUTISM: WHAT DO PARENTS THINK? – JULY 2019: https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/facultyofeducation/visual-support-systems-for-autism-what-do-parents-think/
Mallia Borg, R. (2021) Visual Support Systems: A qualitative evaluation of the support provided to parents of children with Autism. Inclusive and Supportive Education Conference (ISEC) – London (UCL and Nasen). Oral Presentation. Presented at UCL online. August 3rd – 5th 2021. London, UK.