Dr Ritienne Grima

Dr Ritienne Grima

Dr Ritienne Grima

  B.Sc.(Hons)(Melit.),Ph.D.(Limerick)

Senior Lecturer

Room 13 Blk A Lvl 1
Mater Dei Hospital
Msida
  +356 2340 1142

Head of Department

Dr Ritienne Grima graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Communication Therapy from the University of Malta in 1997. She subsequently practised as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) in a range of settings, including community health clinics and an acute care hospital. In recent years she focused her clinical practice on adults with acquired neurological communication disorders.

Ritienne was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Limerick, Ireland, in 2012. Her thesis focused on confrontation naming abilities in Maltese-speaking adults. Naming performance of Maltese speakers on a widely used naming test, The Boston Naming Test, was investigated. The influence of demographic and word variables on spoken word production during naming was studied. Finally, this research presented an adapted naming test to suit the cultural and linguistic needs of Maltese speakers, and which may be used to assess Maltese people at risk of naming impairments.

She is a senior lecturer within the Department of Communication Therapy in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and is currently Head of the Department of Communication Therapy.
  • Acquired Communication Disorders
  • Aphasia
  • Spoken word retrieval
  • Stroke

ALI, M., BEN BASAT, A.L., BERTHIER, M., BLOM JOHANSSON, M., BREITENSTEIN, C., CADILHAC, D.A., CONSTANTINIDOU, F., CRUICE, M., DAVILA, G., GANDOLFI, M., GIL, M., GRIMA, R., GODECKE, E., JESUS, L., MARTINEZ JIMINEZ, L., KAMBANAROS, M., KUKKONEN, T., LASKA, A., MAVIS, I., MC MENAMIN, R., MENDEZ-ORELLANA, C., OBRIG, H., OSTBERG, P., ROBSON, H., SAGE, K., VAN DE SANDT-KOENDERMAN, M., SPRECHT, K., VISCH-BRINK, E., WEHLING, E., WIELAERT, S., WALLACE, S.J., WILLIAMS, L.J. and BRADY, M.C., 2021. Protocol for the development of the international population registry for aphasia after stroke (I-PRAISE). Aphasiology, OPEN ACCESS.

GRIMA, R., 2020. Meaningful life participation: you can be part of it too. Malta Journal of Health Sciences, 7(1), pp. 4-6.

GRIMA, R., AKININA, YU., SATOER, D., DE KOK, D., BASTIAANSE, R., 2020. The Token Test App, Second Edition: Maltese version. .

GRIMA, R. and FRANKLIN, S., 2017. Usefulness of investigating error profiles in diagnosis of naming impairments.
. International Journal of Language and Communication disorders, 52(2), pp. 214-226.

GRIMA, R. and FRANKLIN, S., 2016. A Maltese adaptation of the Boston Naming Test: A shortened version. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 30(11), pp. 871-887.

SCIBERRAS, S. and GRIMA, R., 2015. Maltese children with a hearing impairment: analysis of the current situation and its impact on the quality of life of parents. Malta Journal of Health Sciences, 2(2), pp. 35-43.

  • CMT1000 - Clinical Analysis of Speech, Language and Communication
  • CMT1038 - Introduction to Communication and Communication Disorders
  • CMT2043 - Voice Disorders
  • CMT3047 - Clinical Semantics and Pragmatics
  • CMT3048 - Communication and Ageing: A Clinical Perspective
  • CMT3049 - Neurogenic Disorders
  • CMT3310 - Case File 1
  • CMT3311 - Client Presentation 1
  • CMT4310 - Client Presentation 2
  • CMT4312 - Case File 2
  • CMT4512 - Applied Neurology
  • CMT4515 - Language Pathology and Communication Therapy 2
  • CMT4516 - Clinical Linguistics
  • CMT5007 - Models of Service Delivery
Research work in progress:
Identification of stroke-induced aphasia
Investigating outcomes for people with aphasia
Management and practices in bilingual aphasia


Ongoing collaborations:
Ritienne Grima is a member of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (CATs). CATs is an
international network of multidisciplinary aphasia investigators in rehabilitation, social
science, psychology and linguistics research from across 26 countries. It is currently funded
by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia, UK.

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