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Dongsun Yim, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

 

Dongsun Yim, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, Principal Investigator, is a tenure track associate professor of Communication Disorders at EWHA Womans University. Before Dr. Yim joined Ewha, she was a faculty at Northwestern University in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and worked as a researcher at Stanford University in Psychology Department. Dr. Yim has many years of expertise in the area of monolingual and bilingual children with LI, with recent research focused on developing processing-dependent tasks for these children. Her research interest focuses on the relationship between nature and nurture piece of language learning, as well as providing clinical services to individuals with communication disorders. Dr. Yim is also a Hanen Certified SLP and offers parent training for those who would like to learn how to facilitate their children’s communication. Bilingual children with language difficulties are welcome for bilingual assessment and intervention. Our clinic and research lab is housed within Education building A in Ewha Womans University. For further information and scheduling an appointment, contact her via email

sunyim@ewha.ac.kr

Research 

WMT: Working Memory Training

SLCI: Statistical Learning in Children with Cochlear Implants

LCCS: Life immersive Communication Care Service

BIAGL: Artificial Grammar Learning in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
BIPL: Implicit Learning in Auditory, Visual and Motor domains in Bilingual Children
CIPD: General Processing Abilities in Children with Cochlear Implant
BIPD: Processing Dependent Tasks on Bilingual Children
BICI: Bilingual Children with Cochlear Implants

R-Learning: Children's language learning and intervention via Robot

FB: Cognitive ability and Language skills in boy and girls

Career

2010-current   

Associate professor, Department of communication disorders, Ewha womans university

PI: Child Language Lab (CLL)

2007-2010       

Assistant professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, 

PI: Child Language Lab

2007-2008       

Clinical Fellowship Year, Westbrook elementary school, Lion's Park school, 
Certification of Certified Competency - Speech Language Pathologist,
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

2006-2007       

Researcher, Department of Psychology, Stanford University.

2001-2006       

Research Assistant, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota.

1999-2000       

Speech Pathologist, SHIN's Speech and Language Clinic.

1998-2004       

Student Clinician: Center Hospital University , Grenoble , France , 1998
Hans Christian Anderson Open School , MN, 2003
Julia M. Davis Speech-Language Hearing Center , MN , 2003
Anoka Evaluation team, MN, 2004

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