Dr Monique Waite
Affiliate of Parenting and Family Support Centre
Parenting and Family Support Centre
Affiliate of University of Queensland Centre for Hearing Research (CHEAR)
Centre for Hearing Research
Senior Lecturer
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
+61 7 334 67489
Researcher biography
I am a speech pathology and hearing researcher specialising in equitable access to early communication intervention. My work focuses on improving how services are designed, delivered, and experienced to support better outcomes for children, families, and underserved communities.
My research sits within health services research and implementation science, with a strong emphasis on real-world impact. I am particularly interested in understanding and addressing disparities in access and engagement across diverse populations.
Key areas of expertise include:
- Early intervention for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and/or other communicaiton disability
- Access to services and service engagement
- Health equity for culturally and linguistically diverse and rural populations
- Communication participation and inclusion
- Stigma in hearing loss and communication disability
- Telehealth and innovative models of care
I use a range of approaches, including mixed methods research, co-design, and large-scale data analysis, to work collaboratively with communities, clinicians, and service providers. My goal is to generate evidence that informs policy and practice, leading to more accessible, inclusive, and effective communication services across the lifespan.
Publications
Book Chapter
Rushbrooke, Emma, Waite, Monique and Houston, K. Todd (2020). Telepractice and auditory-verbal therapy. Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research and Practice. (pp. 825-848) edited by Warren Estabrooks, Helen McCaffrey Morrison and Karen MacIver-Lux. San Diego, CA United States: Plural Publishing.
Journal Articles
Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Furze, Cailyn, Nisar, Mehwish, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Newall, John, Hickson, Louise, Armitage, Christopher J., Ching, Teresa Y. C. and Dawes, Piers (2025). Factors influencing the use of hearing services by diverse ethnic communities in Australia. Ear and Hearing, 47 (2), 363-377. doi: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001734
Meyer, Carly, Scarinci, Nerina, Ekberg, Katie, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Timmer, Barbra, Waite, Monique and Hickson, Louise (2025). Understanding affiliate stigma among significant others of adults with hearing loss: a cross-sectional survey in Australia, the UK, and the US. International Journal of Audiology, 65 (s1), S58-S64. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2025.2505979
Ekberg, Katie, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Timmer, Barbra, Scarinci, Nerina and Hickson, Louise (2025). Who do you tell about your hearing loss? A stigma-induced identity-threat model for adults with hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 64 (sup1), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2025.2489569
Meyer, Carly, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra, Scarinci, Nerina, Waite, Monique and Hickson, Louise (2025). The decision to tell or not to tell is associated with experiences of stigma and hearing aid use among adults with hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 64 (sup1), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2446480
Scarinci, Nerina, Waite, Monique, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra, Meyer, Carly and Hickson, Louise (2025). How do adults with hearing loss, family members, and hearing care professionals respond to the stigma of hearing loss and hearing aids?. International Journal of Audiology, 64 (sup1), s20-s27. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2406885
Timmer, Barbra H. B., Ekberg, Katie, Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Nickbakht, Mansoureh and Hickson, Louise (2025). Using Ecological Momentary Analysis to explore stigma experiences in the real world for adults with acquired hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 64 (sup1), s28-s38. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2418970
Retamal-Walter, Felipe, Waite, Monique and Scarinci, Nerina (2024). Development and validation of an observational tool to measure engagement in telepractice early intervention. Disability and Rehabilitation, 47 (14), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2024.2432921
Lo, Davina, Waite, Monique and Rose, Tanya A. (2024). Looking beyond body structure and function: a scoping review of non-impairment impacts of stroke on adolescents. Brain Injury, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2024.2390858
Ekberg, Katie, Timmer, Barbra, Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Nickbakht, Mansoureh and Hickson, Louise (2024). A laughing matter? Managing hearing difficulties in real life everyday social interactions with adults with hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, 64 (sup1), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2389189
Dawes, Piers, Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Scarinci, Nerina, Newall, John, Furze, Cailyn, Nisar, Mehwish, Timmer, Barbra, Ching, Teresa Y. C., Harris-Roxas, Benjamin, Scanlan, Emma, Van Buynder, Patricia, Waite, Monique, Orlando, Marc, Kruger, Jan-Louis, Ekberg, Katie, Dib, Mayada, Ginis, Jan, Barr, Margo, Armitage, Christopher J. and Hickson, Louise (2024). Developing strategies to improve accessibility of hearing health services for people from diverse ethnic communities in Australia: Research Protocol. Figshare. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.26499952.v1
Nickbakht, Mansoureh, Ekberg, Katie, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Timmer, Barbra, Meyer, Carly and Hickson, Louise (2024). The experience of stigma related to hearing loss and hearing aids: perspectives of adults with hearing loss, their families, and hearing care professionals. International Journal of Audiology, 64 (sup1), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2024.2353862
Lo, Davina, Waite, Monique and Rose, Tanya A. (2023). Experiences of childhood stroke and aphasia during adolescence: an analysis of YouTube videos. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25 (3), 403-412. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2023.2182743
Penman, Adriana, Waite, Monique, Hill, Anne E., Leslie, Taliesha-jayne, Whelan, Brooke-Mai and Whitehead, Andrea (2022). Simulation-based learning experiences in stuttering management delivered online: what do students, clinical educators and simulated patients think?. International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care, 10 (1), 23-35. doi: 10.18552/ijpblhsc.v10i1.733
Ng, Zheng Yen, Waite, Monique, Ekberg, Katie and Hickson, Louise (2022). Clinicians' and managers' views and experiences of audiology and speech-language pathology service provision for culturally and linguistically diverse families of young children with hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65 (7), 1-18. doi: 10.1044/2022_jslhr-21-00378
Retamal-Walter, Felipe, Waite, Monique and Scarinci, Nerina (2022). Families’ and professionals’ perspectives of building and maintaining engagement in telepractice early intervention for young children with communication disability. Disability and Rehabilitation, 45 (7), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2055161
Retamal-Walter, Felipe, Waite, Monique and Scarinci, Nerina (2022). Identifying critical behaviours for building engagement in telepractice early intervention: An international e-Delphi study. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 57 (3), 645-659. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12714
Retamal-Walter, Felipe, Waite, Monique and Scarinci, Nerina (2022). Exploring engagement in telepractice early intervention for young children with developmental disability and their families: a qualitative systematic review. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 18 (8), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/17483107.2022.2048098
Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Atkins, Jenny, Ekberg, Katie, Scarinci, Nerina, Barr, Caitlin, Cowan, Robert and Hickson, Louise (2022). How can eHealth meet the hearing and communication needs of adults with hearing impairment and their significant others? AÂ group concept mapping study. Ear and Hearing, 43 (2), 335-346. doi: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001097
Ng, Zheng Yen, Waite, Monique, Hickson, Louise and Ekberg, Katie (2021). Language accessibility in allied healthcare for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families of young children with chronic health conditions: a qualitative systematic review. Speech, Language and Hearing, 24 (2), 50-66. doi: 10.1080/2050571x.2021.1879611
Howells, Simone, Cardell, Elizabeth A., Waite, Monique C., Bialocerkowski, Andrea and Tuttle, Neil (2019). A simulation-based learning experience in augmentative and alternative communication using telepractice: speech pathology students' confidence and perceptions. Advances in Simulation, 4 (Suppl 1) 23, 23. doi: 10.1186/s41077-019-0113-x
Reeves, Nathan E., Waite, Monique C., Tuttle, Neil and Bialocerkowski, Andrea (2019). Simulated patient contributions to enhancing exercise physiology student clinical assessment skills. Advances in Simulation, 4 (Suppl 1) 15, 15. doi: 10.1186/s41077-019-0097-6
Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique, Atkins, Jenny, Scarinci, Nerina, Cowan, Robert and Hickson, Louise (2019). Promoting patient-centered hearing care through the use of eHealth: current status and future possibilities. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 4 (2), 331-344. doi: 10.1044/2018_pers-sig7-2018-0003
Bennett, Michelle K., Ward, Elizabeth C., Scarinci, Nerina A. and Waite, Monique C. (2015). Service providers' perceptions of working in residential aged care: a qualitative cross-sectional analysis (vol 35, pg 2257, 2015). Ageing and Society, 35 (10), 2257-2257. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X14001019
Bennett, Michelle K., Ward, Elizabeth C., Scarinci, Nerina A. and Waite, Monique C. (2015). Challenges to communication management in residential aged care. Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech Language Pathology, 17 (2), 58-62.
McPhail, Steven M., Schippers, Mandy, Marshall, Alison L., Waite, Monique and Kuipers, Pim (2014). Perceived barriers and facilitators to increasing physical activity among people with musculoskeletal disorders: a qualitative investigation to inform intervention development. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 9, 2113-2122. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S72731
Constantinescu, Gabriella, Waite, Monique, Dornan, Dimity, Rushbrooke, Emma, Brown, Jackie, McGovern, Jane, Ryan, Michelle and Hill, Anne (2014). A pilot study of telepractice delivery for teaching listening and spoken language to children with hearing loss. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 20 (3), 135-140. doi: 10.1177/1357633X14528443
McPhail, Steven M. and Waite, Monique C. (2014). Physical activity and health-related quality of life among physiotherapists: a cross sectional survey in an Australian hospital and health service. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 9 (1) 1, 1-9. doi: 10.1186/1745-6673-9-1
Bennett, Michelle K., Ward, Elizabeth C., Scarinci, Nerina and Waite, Monique C. (2014). Service providers' perceptions of working in residential aged care: a qualitative cross-sectional analysis. Ageing And Society, 35 (9), 1989-2010. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X14000853
Bennett, Michelle K., Ward, Elizabeth, Scarinci, Nerina and Waite, Monique (2014). Perspectives on mealtime management in Residential Aged Care: insights from a cross-disciplinary investigation. Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, 33 (4), 325-339. doi: 10.1080/21551197.2014.963275
Waite, Monique C., Theodoros, Deborah G., Russell, Trevor G. and Cahill, Louise M. (2012). Assessing children's speech intelligibility and oral structures, and functions via an internet-based telehealth system. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 18 (4), 198-203. doi: 10.1258/jtt.2012.111116
Waite, Monique C., Theodoros, Deborah G., Russell, Trevor G. and Cahill, Louise M. (2010). Internet-Based Telehealth Assessment of Language Using the CELF-4. Language Speech And Hearing Services In Schools, 41 (4), 445-458. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2009/08-0131)
Waite, Monique C., Theodoros, Deborah G., Russell, Trevor G. and Cahill, Louise M. (2010). Assessment of children's literacy via an Internet-based telehealth system. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 16 (5), 564-575. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2009.0161
Waite, M. C., Cahill, L. M., Theodoros, D. G., Busuttin, S. T. and Russell, T. G. (2006). A pilot study of online assessment of childhood speech disorders. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 12 (3), 92-94. doi: 10.1258/135763306779380048
Conference Papers
Retamal-Walter, F., Waite, M., Melvin, K. and Scarinci, N. (2025). Engaging families of children aged 0-7 with communication difficulties in telepractice: Five-year insights. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Washington, DC, United States, 20-22 November 2025.
Retamal Walter, F., Waite, M. and Scarinci, N. (2024). Development and validation of the eTOT: an observational tool to measure engagement in telepractice early intervention for families of young children with communication disorders. 36th World Congress of Audiology, Paris, France, 19 - 22 September 2024.
Lo, D., Waite, M., Rose, T., Armstrong, R. and Hilton, N. (2023). Understanding the experiences of adolescents with post-stroke aphasia. 15th World Stroke Congress, Toronto, ON Canada, 10-12 October 2023. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Retamal-Walter, Felipe, Waite, Monique, Scarinci, Nerina, Austin, Georgina, Fuller, Lilly, Neufeld, Laura and Prichard, Georgia (2023). Exploring family-centredness during telepractice early intervention for families of young children with communication difficulties. 32nd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) 2023, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 - 24 August 2023.
Dawes, P., Scarinci, N., Newall, J., Nickbakht, M., Hickson, L., Ching, T., Armitage, C., Waite, M., Orlando, M. and Harris-Roxas, B. (2023). Improving access to the hearing services program for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Audiology Australia National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 7-10 May 2023.
Timmer, B.H.B., Waite, M. and Hickson, L. (2023). Teleaudiology vs in-clinic hearing aid follow up appointments: is there a difference in outcomes for adult clients?. Audiology Australia National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 7-10 May 2023.
Timmer, B.H.B., Ekberg, K., Scarinci, N., Waite, M., Meyer, C., Nickbakht, M. and Hickson, L. (2023). Understanding the real-world stigma experiences of adults with hearing loss. Audiology Australia National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 7-10 May 2023.
Retamal-Walter, Felipe, Waite, Monique and Scarinci, Nerina (2022). Development and preliminary validation study of an observational tool to measure engagement in telepractice early intervention. 22nd Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth , Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 10-11 November 2022.
Timmer, B.H.B., Hickson, L., Ekberg, K., Scarinci, N., Meyer, C., Waite, M., Francis, A. and Nickbakht, M. (2022). Capturing the stigma experiences of adults with hearing impairment, their family members and hearing care professionals. ACAud National Conference, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 19-21 May 2022.
Timmer, Barbra H.B., Hickson, Louise, Ekberg, Katie, Scarinci, Nerina, Meyer, Carly, Waite, Monique and Nickbakht, Mansoureh (2022). To tell or not to tell? The stigma experiences of adults with hearing impairment and their families. Hearing Across the Lifespan (HEAL), Cernobbio (Lake Como), Italy, 16-18 June 2022.
Penman, A., Waite, M., Hill, A. E., Leslie, T. J. and Whelan, B. M. (2021). Do students, clinical educators and simulated patients share perceptions of an online simulation-based learning experience in stuttering management?. ANZAHPE Online Conference, Online, 6-14 July 2021.
N. Tuttle, M. Waite and A. Bialocerkowski (2015). Increasing external clinical placement capacity and supplementing placement content through a centrally located telemedicine simulated learning environment. World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress 2015, Singapore, 1-4 May 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.physio.2015.03.1548
S. McPhail, M. Schippers, A.L. Marshall, M. Waite and P. Kuipers (2015). Patient-perceived barriers and facilitators to increasing physical activity among patients with musculoskeletal disorders receiving outpatient physiotherapy: a qualitative investigation.. World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress 2015, Singapore, 1-4 May 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.physio.2015.03.1845
Waite, Monique , Theodoros, Deborah and Russell, Trevor (2011). The online treatment of phonological awareness for literacy: A phase I trial. The American Telemedicine Association Soxteenth Annual Meeting and Exposition, Tampa, FL United States, 1-3 May 2011. Mary Ann Leibert. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2011.9993
Theodoros, D., Waite, M. and Russell, T. (2010). Assessment of pediatric speech via a multi-media videoconferencing system. The 15th Annual International Meeting and Exposition of the American Telemedicine Association, San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 16-18, 2010.
Waite, M., Theodoros, D., Russell, T. and Cahill, L. (2009). Standardized assessment of pediatric language via a multi-media videoconferencing system. The 14th Annual International Meeting of the American Telemedicine Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 26-28 April 2009. New Rochelle, NY, United States: Mary Ann Liebert. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2009.9985.supp
Waite, M., Theodoros, D., Russell, T. and Cahill, L. (2008). An Internet-based telehealth system for the assessment and treatment of childhood speech, language and literacy disorders. TADS 2008: Training and Development Seminar for Nurses, OTs, PTs and SLPs. Foundations for the Future, Bardon, QLD, Australia, 23-24 September 2008.
Thesis
Waite, Monique (2010). Online Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Speech, Language, and Literacy Disorders. PhD Thesis, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Speech Pathology Australia, Hill, Annie J., Burns, Clare, Abel, Andrea, Bridgman, Kate, Bryant, Lucy, Bye, Julia, Campbell, Jessica, Erickson, Shane, Furlong, Lisa, Graham, Nicola, Levine, Rachel, Pitt, Rachelle, Raatz, Madeline, Rietdijk, Rachael, Scarinci, Nerina, Sutherland, Rebecca, Thomas, Donna, Waite, Monique, Walton, Chloe, Ward, Elizabeth and Wishart, Laurelie (2022). Telepractice in Speech Pathology Position Statement. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Speech Pathology Association of Australia.
Speech Pathology Australia, Burns, Clare, Hill, Annie, Baldac, S., Cook, M., Erickson, S., Garnett, R., Lowe, R., Martinovich, J., May, J., Rietdijk, R., Waite, M. and Ward, E. (2015). Telepractice in Speech Pathology Position Statement. Melbourne, VIC Australia: Speech Pathology Association of Australia.