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The 4th year projects
fall into four broad areas in Language and Communication Science.
Some topics and supervisors cross over groups so look through them all to
get a full picture of what is available. Students interested in any of these projects should contact one of the
research group conveners (Marshall, Joffe, Morgan or Cruice) as early as possible in the Summer term of the 3rd year. Many
projects can be done in groups. Once projects and supervisors have
been decided on - or if you are having problems finding something to do
contact the 4th year project coordinator - Gary
Morgan.
Click on a topic area to see projects and supervisors
Developmental Language Disabilities - convener Victoria Joffe
Deaf Studies - convener Gary Morgan
Communication Disability and Society - convener Madeline Cruice
I have large amounts of data from 3 separate audits The first two lots of data collected relates to SLT input into critical care one in 2003 & one in 2004 - captured at a national level. I also have data on 2 snapshot audits of prevalence of patients with communication / swallowing disorders on this inpatient acute trust in 2004 & 2005. This has in house ethics clearance. I would be very keen if someone wanted to crunch this data as their project from a statistical viewpoint - it would be excellent for the profession as well as we could use it to shape RCSLT policy (we are writing a position paper re service delivery to this group of patients for RCSLT at the moment). I would be more than happy to help supervise a project or two relating to these topics - please get in touch with me as below if you have people interested. Cheers Email: Kim.Clarke@nwlh.nhs.uk We
have recently published a narrative assessment in British Sign Language.
To complement the BSL data that has already been collected, I would
like to collect some similar samples from hearing nursery and primary
school children. This would
allow us to look at hearing children’s progress on this task (comparing
children of different ages) and/or make comparisons with age-matched BSL
users. There are therefore two
possible areas for projects: a)
Collect
narrative samples on groups of hearing children of different ages and
compare their narrative development (suitable for a group of students) b) If students have BSL skills (Stage 2), there is the potential to compare data from one of the hearing groups in a) with a sample from the deaf BSL group email: Ros Herman Effortful Speech In an (as yet) unpublished case study, the following
enigmatic finding motivates some further research.
A profoundly deaf adult speaker (no hearing aid) was shown to have
extremely low speech intelligibility when evaluated by phonetically
trained (and untrained) listeners scoring controlled target words in
carrier test sentences. For this task, the scorers listened to the
recording via headphones under laboratory conditions.
Speech Acoustics Lab
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