Keynote speakers
Marie-Pierre
de Partz
(Belgium) Evaluating
therapeutic effects in adult neuropsychology.
James
Law
(London, UK) Evidence-based
policy and practice as applied to the treatment of children with speech and
language difficulties: the difference between knowing and believing.
Hanneke
Kalf
(Netherlands) Current
possibilities of evidence-based speech therapy, in practice and in clinical
education: do we wish for more?
Session 1 – Aphasia
1. Pirkko Rautakoski (Helsinki, Finland)
The use of non-verbal communication and the counselling of significant
others as contributing to the functional communication abilities of people with
severe aphasia. [full text] [abstract]
2. Anna
van der Gaag (Glasgow, UK) Reflections on evidence; An evaluation of
therapy and support services for people with aphasia at Connect, the Communication
Disability Network, London UK. [full
text] [abstract]
3 Julia Wade (Bristol, UK) Expanding
the methodological toolkit in aphasia therapy; dilemmas of what to measure and
how to measure it. [full text] [abstract]
Session 2 - Initial
clinical education
4. Jois
Stansfield (Edinburgh, UK) Competence in SLT students, the role of
placement. [full text] [abstract]
5. Francesca
Cooper (Cardiff, UK) Evaluating students’ clinical competence,
the design of a clinical assessment form. [full
text] [abstract]
6. Anne
Whitworth (Newcastle, UK) Interprofessional education and training;
taking the plunge. [abstract]
Session 3 – Child Language
delay & disorder
7. Jan
Broomfield (Middlesbrough,
UK) Effectiveness of SLT for children
with primary language impairment. [abstract]
8. Catherine
Adams & Julian Lloyd (Manchester, UK) Variations in pragmatic performance in children with language
disorder: establishing baselines for an
intervention study. [full text] [abstract]
9. Bernard
Camilleri (London, UK) Dynamic assessment of young children with
language delay. [full text] [abstract]
Session 4 - SLTs working with other professionals
10. Elspeth
McCartney (Glasgow, UK) Conducting a large-scale randomised
controlled trial of direct and indirect therapy in mainstream schools;
methodological issues. [full text] [abstract]
11. Lorraine
Coulter (Belfast, UK) The speech and language development
project; results of collaboration between speech and language therapy and
education. [full text] [abstract]
12. Jane
Lowe (Salford, UK) Evaluative
data on the language skills of a mainstream school population and subsequent
intervention in whole class settings. [full text]
[abstract]
12A Alison
Thompson (Peterlee, UK) Developing
speech and language skills in the classroom, a collaborative approach. [full
text] [abstract]
Session 5 - Cochlear implants etc
13. Gill
Close (Tyneside, UK) Children
with cochlear implants, moving into spoken language and mainstream schools. [full text]
[abstract]
14. Karen
Reichmuth (Muenster, Germany) Development of preverbal communication in
hearing-impaired children with cochlear implant, a case study with special
emphasis on repair behaviour. [full text] [abstract]
15. Sharon
Crosbie/Barbara Dodd (Newcastle,
UK) Training auditory discrimination,
a single case study. [abstract]
Session 6 - General issues on evidence based practice
16. Kath
Williamson (Sheffield, UK) Evidence, judgment and decision-making. [full
text] [abstract]
17. Liz
Buckles (Hull, UK) Have we found the answer to a global
outcome measure? The East Kent outcome
system in practice. [full text] [abstract]
18.
Sylvia
Taylor-Goh
(London, UK) Development of the
evidence base for the RCSLT clinical guidelines. [full
text] [abstract]
Session 7- General issues
19. Pierre-Yves
Gilles
(Aix-en-Provence, France) Improving
detection to improve speech and language therapy interventions, validation of
the DPL3. [texte
complet] [abstract]
20. Thierry
Rousseau (Sablé sur Sarthe, France)
Clinical audit of a speech and language therapy intervention. [texte complet] [abstract]
21. Margaret
Glogowska (Bristol, UK) Research gets real; examining the
implications of gathering evidence in real clinical settings. [full
text] [abstract]
Session 8 - Aphasia 2
22. Isabel Winslow (Leeds, UK) An
evaluation of the effectiveness of a multi-agency partnership provision of
groups for people with aphasia. [full text] [abstract]
23. Julie
Hickin (Leicester, UK) Therapy for word finding difficulties in
aphasia; measuring the impact on real life communication. [full text]
[abstract]
24. Chris
Code (Exeter, UK) How should we describe participants in
aphasia research? The evidence so far. [full text]
[abstract]
Session 9 - Severe learning
disability etc
25. Cath
Valentine (Downpatrick, UK) The development of a communication profile
and description of an adult learning disability population. [full
text] [abstract]
26. Darren
Chadwick (Manchester, UK) Dysphagia management for adults with
learning disabilities; caregiver knowledge and barriers to their adherence. [full
text] [abstract]
27. Peggy
Gatignol (Paris, France)
Rehabilitation of facial palsy by
hypoglossofacial anastomosis; analysis, results & benefits of early
intervention. [texte complet] [abstract]
Session 10 - Neurological
disorders
28. Deborah
Jans (Edinburgh, Scotland) AAC evidence based clinical practice using
automated performance measurement tools. [full text]
[abstract]
29. Claire Hartley (Alton, UK) Treatment effects on speech production and speech
intelligibility of dysarthric speech in children with cerebral palsy. [full text]
[abstract]
30. Delphine Lamargue (Paris, France) Unilateral spatial neglect, theories, methods of remediation, and
effectiveness of speech and language therapy intervention. [texte complet] [abstract]
Session 11 - Issues in
child speech and language
31. Annette
Fox (Hamburg, Germany) A
study of intervention in German-speaking children with a consistent
phonological disorder, articulation vs phonological intervention. [full text]
[abstract]
32. Sally
Johnston & Ineke Mennen (Edinburgh,
Scotland) Are we meeting the
challenge? An evaluation of SLT
services for bilingual children in 3 centres of population. [full text] [abstract]
33.
Sara
Wood (Edinburgh,
UK) Evaluating the clinical
effectiveness of EPG in the assessment and diagnosis of children with intractable
speech disorders. [full text] [abstract]
34. James
Law (London, UK) Monitoring the effectiveness of the
national Surestart programme. [full text] [abstract]
Session 12 - Voice 1
35. Cameron
Sellars (Glasgow, UK) Comparisons between therapists’ and
patients’ views of dysphonia, a survey study. [full
text] [abstract]
36. Pauline
Meek (Newcastle, UK) Voice quality following thyroid surgery. [full text]
[abstract]
37. Helen
Rattenbury (Newcastle, UK) Video laryngeal endoscopy; a voice therapy
tool. [full text] [abstract]
38. Louis
Heylen (Antwerp, Belgium) Therapy outcomes in female professional
voice users with voice problems. [full text] [abstract]
Session 13 - Evidence-based
practice
39. Simon
Horton (London, UK) Negotiating meaning in therapy: some ways
in which therapists and clients work towards explanation and understanding of
what is going on in assessment and therapy in SLT, PT and OT. [full
text] [abstract]
40. Diane
Bebbington (London, UK) What's
gender got to do with it? Power, research and knowledge in the speech sciences.
[full text] [abstract]
41. Hazel
Roddam (Manchester, UK) Promoting increased use of research
evidence in SLT departments. [full text] [abstract]
42. Alex
John (Sheffield, UK) Benchmarking outcomes in SLT using the
therapy outcome measures. [full text] [abstract]
Session 14 - Joint working between parents and SLTs
43. Hazel
Welbon (Huntley, UK) Putting theory into practice, can speech
and language facilitated parent/carer groups achieve a quality sharing in duty
of care in the management of children with language and communication difficulties.
[full
text] [abstract]
44. Linda
Peacey (London, UK) An investigation into mothers’ beliefs
about their children with specific language impairments. [full text]
[abstract]
45. Julie
Phillips (Manchester, UK) ‘He’s just lazy, he’ll do it when he goes
to school.’ Parents and SLTs’ explanatory models of language delay. [full
text] [abstract]
46. Caroline
Pickstone (Sheffield, UK) The reliability and validity of paraprofessional judgements of
child language. [full text] [abstract]
Session 15 - Voice 2
47. Youri Maryn (Bruges, Belgium) Working with ventricular dysphonia, literature
versus practice. [full text] [abstract]
Session 16 - Specific
language disorder
48. Gina Conti-Ramsden (Manchester, UK) Factors influencing word learning in young
children with SLI. [full text] [abstract]
Session 17 – Intervention
in phonological difficulties
49. Victoria
Joffe (London, UK) Exploring effectiveness of phonological
therapy in clinical settings with preschool aged children. [abstract]
Round table
discussion with the keynote speakers:
Marie-Pierre
de Partz (Belgium)
James Law (United Kingdom)
Hanneke
Kalf (Netherlands)
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