Emily Wood Appointed Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Professor Emily Wood
By: Jessica Boafo
The Department of Speech-Language Pathology is excited to announce the appointment of Emily Wood as Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, effective September 2025.
Emily is a registered Speech-Language Pathologist, who recently completed her PhD studies in the Bilingual and Multilingual Development (BAM!) Lab under the supervision of Professor Monika Molnar. Professor Wood’s dissertation focused on the development of a clinically informed, quasi-linguistically universal dynamic assessment of early word reading skills for bilingual kindergarteners. Her research aims to promote more equitable, valid, and culturally responsive assessment practices for linguistically diverse children.
Emily holds a Bachelor of Arts in Languages from Wilfrid Laurier University and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, with conversational proficiency in German. She completed her clinical master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology at McGill University before working as a paediatric SLP for seven years, primarily in school board settings but also in hospitals, private practice, and community agencies. She has extensive clinical experience evaluating language and literacy skills in monolingual and bilingual children, and she maintains strong ties to clinical practice through mentoring new clinicians and supervising graduate students.
In addition to her research and clinical practice, Emily brings significant teaching experience to the department. She has served as a teaching assistant for several master’s-level courses, including Child Language Development I & II, Principles of Clinical Practice, Advanced Principles of Clinical Practice, and Integrating Client, Practitioner and Research Knowledge. She has also taught Child Language I as a sessional instructor while Professor Molnar was on sabbatical.
Her excellence in research communication was recently recognized at the 2025 University of Toronto Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals, where she earned second place for her presentation, “Turning the Page on Unfair Reading Screening” and went on to win the Presenters’ Choice Award at the Ontario 3MT finals.
Emily is also an active member of Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC) and has contributed to two national position papers on virtual care and the role of SLPs in school-based literacy.
We look forward to the expertise and energy Emily will bring to the department in her new role. Please join us in congratulating and welcoming her to the faculty.
Learn more about Emily’s research: Google Scholar Profile