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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Research within Speech & Language Therapy includes:
- Motor speech disorders
- Prosody
- Neurological communication disorders
- Language impairment and interventions
- Child speech and language
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Profiles
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Joanne Cleland, BSc(Hons) PhD MRCSLT
- Speech And Language Therapy - Professor
- Health and Wellbeing
Person: Academic
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Wendy Cohen, PhD, PGCert, BSc HONS, MRCSLT
- Speech And Language Therapy - Knowledge Exchange
- Health and Wellbeing
Person: Knowledge Exchange Only
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Does lexical feedback improve the understanding of the speech of children with speech sound disorders?
Cairney, M. (Principal Investigator), Cleland, J. (Co-investigator), Lawson, E. (Co-investigator) & Ratanakul, K. (Researcher)
1/10/25 → 2/02/26
Project: Internally funded project
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Co-designing audio support messages with and for people with ataxia: a telephone version of the “I’m not drunk” ID card.
Cairney, M. (Principal Investigator) & Lowit, A. (Co-investigator)
1/10/25 → 30/09/26
Project: Research
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Investigating quality of life and speech intelligibility in young children with speech sound disorders including repaired cleft lip and palate living in Sri Lanka (SGSSS Postdoctoral Fellowship)
Mirihagalla Kankanamalage, I. U. S. (Principal Investigator)
ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)
1/10/25 → 30/09/26
Project: Research Fellowship
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Approximants in clinical populations
Stemberger, J., Masso, S. & Cleland, J., Dec 2025, The Phonetics and Phonology of Approximants. Ball, M. J. (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Sonospeech cleft pilot: results from a pilot randomised control trial of ultrasound visual biofeedback versus standard intervention for children with cleft palate +/- cleft lip (CP+/-L)
Cairney, M., Crampin, L., Campbell, L. & Cleland, J., 26 Nov 2025. 3 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation/Speech › peer-review
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Naïve listener judgements of speech sound change during speech intervention for children with cleft palate ± lip using a Visual Analogue Scale, compared to expert ratings
Cairney, M., Shiramizu, V. & Cleland, J., 13 Nov 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. p. 1-23 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Datasets
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VariCS Data Collection Instruments
Kuschmann, A. (Creator), Murali, M. (Creator), Cleland, J. (Creator), Smith, A. (Creator) & Stuart-Smith, J. (Creator), Open Science Framework (OSF), 24 Sept 2024
DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/9DGKZ, https://osf.io/9dgkz/
Dataset
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Data for: "The use of technology in the management of children with phonological delay and adults with acquired dysarthria: A UK survey of current speech-language pathology practice"
Kuschmann, A. (Creator), Nayar, R. (Creator), Lowit, A. (Creator) & Dunlop, M. (Creator), figshare, 19 May 2023
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12309440.v1
Dataset
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Data for "Parents’ Experiences of Completing Home Practice for Speech Sound Disorders"
Sugden, E. (Creator), Munro, N. (Creator), Trivette, C. M. (Creator), Baker, E. (Creator) & Williams, A. L. (Contributor), figshare, 7 Jun 2023
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4406303.v1
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Prizes
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Best Paper Award 2019 (International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)
Sugden, E. (Recipient), Baker, E. (Recipient), Munro, N. (Recipient), Williams, A. L. (Recipient) & Trivette, C. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Kuschmann, A. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Conference 2025
Murali, M. (Speaker), Cleland, J. (Participant), Taylor, L. (Participant), Smith, A. (Participant), Stuart-Smith, J. (Participant), Young, D. (Participant) & Kuschmann, A. (Participant)
26 Nov 2025 → 27 Nov 2025Activity: Presenting or Organising an Event › Participation in conference
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ESRC Assessor College (External organisation)
Cairney, M. (Advisor)
9 Oct 2025 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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A Practical Guide for Designing a Programme Leader Induction Session
Timmins, C. (Contributor), Rees, L. (Contributor) & Lindner, R. (Contributor)
10 Oct 2025Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Co-Production
Impacts
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Language gains for children with persisting developmental language disorders through use of an intervention programme and support model for teachers.
McCartney, E. (Participant), Ellis, S. (Participant) & Boyle, J. (Participant)
Impact: Impact - for External Portal › Education, Professional practice, training and standards
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Student theses
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Adherence to a community based 8-week programme for stroke-related dysarthria : an exploratory study of clients' views of therapy
JENSEN, A. (Author), 23 Apr 2015Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Language production in Parkinson’s disease : an investigation into the characteristics and underlying cognitive and linguistic mechanisms
Wagstaff, R. (Author), Lowit, A. (Supervisor) & Brown Nicholls, L. (Supervisor), 2 Sept 2021Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Passive sentence constructions by Hindi-English bilingual speakers with Broca’s aphasia
Sharma, M. (Author), Lowit, A. (Supervisor) & Kuschmann, A. (Supervisor), 20 Jun 2023Student thesis: Master's Thesis