Dongsun Yim, Ph. D., CCC-SLP, Principal Investigator, is a full 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
WORDBANK: http://wordbank.stanford.edu (contributes on Korean version)
Parent Coaching: Making a difference on a child's language development
Dialogic Book Reading to improve vocabulary skills: underlying profiles & intensity
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
2020-Present Professor
2010-2020 Associate professor, Department of communication disorders, Ewha womans university PI: Child Language Lab (CLL)
2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, The Stanford Language and Cognition Lab PI: Michael Frank
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.
2001-2005 Research Assistant, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota.
1999-2001 Speech Pathologist, SHIN's Speech and Language Clinic.
Yonsei Medical School, Seoul, Korea, 2000 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
Graduate-level Courses
2010 to present
Communication in culturally and linguistically diverse children
Seminars in articulation and phonology disorders (Spring only)
Seminars in language development (Fall only)
Trends in technology for communication disorders
Introduction to communicative disorders
Seminars in diagnosis and evaluation of communication disorders
Treatments for communication disorders in ASD
Trends and issues of speech pathology
Seminars in diagnostic methods in speech-language pathology
Study of communication disorders
Language and communication
Clinical observation
Clinical practicum
Diagnostic practicum
Undergraduate-level Courses
'2017 to present' K-MOOC: Children's outstanding language learning abilities - approach from bilinguals
'2013 to 2016' Diversity culture and language(EGO)
'2011 to 2016' Language development and Usage(EGO)
1998 ~ 2010
2010 Assistant professor, Language Disorders in Preschool Children, Northwestern University
2009 Assistant professor, Doctoral Seminar: Children with Primary Language Impairment, Northwestern University
2009 Assistant professor, Language development and Usage, Northwestern University
2005 Teaching Assistant, Communication Differences and Disorders, University of Minnesota
2005 Teaching Assistant, Counseling and Professional Issues, University of Minnesota
2005 Teaching Assistant, Clinical Issues in Bilingualism and Cultural Diversity, University of Minnesota
2004 Teaching Assistant, Language and Cognitive Disorders in Children, University of Minnesota
2003 Teaching Assistant, Language Disorders, University of Minnesota
1999 Teaching Assistant, French Culture & Literacy, Hankuk University, Seoul, Korea
1998 Teacher, French Conversation, Kyungbok High School, Seoul, Korea
1998 Teacher, French Grammar, Ambassade de France Ecole Francaise, Seoul, Korea
1998 Instructor, Nature Study for French Children, Ambassade de France Ecole Francaise, Seoul, Korea
2012 ~ present Clinical Supervisor, Ewha Speech-Language Clinic, Dept of Communication Disorders, Ewha Womans University
2007 Clinical Fellowship Year – Main population: children with language impairment, children with phonological impairment and children with reading impairment, Westbrook Elementary School, Lion’s Park School, IL Graduate Student Clinician - Main population: monolingual and bilingual children with language impairment, children with autism, children and adults with dysfluency
2004 Anoka Evaluation team, MN
2003 Julia M. Davis Speech-Language Hearing Center, MN
2003 Hans Christian Anderson Open School, MN
2000 SHIN’s speech and language clinic, Seoul, Korea
1999 Yonsei University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
1998 Center Hospital University, Grenoble, France
Ewha Womans University