Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University

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Julie Trimble is the lead SLT for acute stroke at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. She is researching the use of cough reflex testing (CRT) as a possible aid to identifying acute stroke patients who are at risk of silent aspiration. The research is being funded by NIHR in conjunction with Sheffield Hallam University as part of their clinical academic internship with supervision from our lecturer Nicole Lallini.

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Good luck to all our SLS students sitting exams and handing in assignments over the next 2 weeks! You can do it 👍

Clients from the Tavistock Aphasia Centre have worked to produce this leaflet about Aphasia and presented it to BSc2 students on Friday. This was a fantastic opportunity for the BSc2 students to meet clients and ask questions in preparation for their client placement in the Tavistock Aphasia Centre, which begins in January.

The remaining two SLS seminars of the semester are as follows:

Thursday 5th December
Cristina McKean, Newcastle: "Understanding developmental change in child language and the implications for children’s services."

Thursday 12th December
Bernard Camilleri, City University of London: "Dynamic assessment: horses for courses."

Get them in the diary if you wish to attend! Both will be held in the King George IV Building (Lecture Theatre 5).

Today, three of our final year SLS undergraduates will be showcasing their Summer Research Projects at the Great North Museum from 4.15pm.

We would like to extend a huge congratulations and well done for all their hard work.

Here's an overview of what their projects included:
*Spoken production in people with aphasia: What do individuals view as important? (Elle McWilliam)
*Story telling after right-sided stroke: Using real-time speech measures to identify the deficit. (Laura Chambers)
*Early speech and language: A comparison of outcomes for children with cleft palate with and without Robin Sequence (Jo Baker)

For further information visit: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/events/noticeboard/item/celebratingstudentresearchscholarshipsandexpeditions2019.html

Last night some of our students were lucky enough to attend the 7th annual Head and Neck Cancer Conference. It was inspiring, informative and insightful for developing SLTs. Thank you to the professional speakers and patients. You were all incredible.

Our next SLS seminar is taking place this week! Thursday 7th November, 4-5pm in LT5 KGVI builiding. This will be led by Janet Pierrehumbert, presenting the research entitled "On the interaction of social and cognitive aspects of language."

Huge congratulations to Izzy Norris (Bsc 2) on being awarded the endowed prize scholarship yesterday! This is a huge achievement and the entire bsc2 cohort are incredibly proud

Today is World Stroke Day. Did you know there are approximately 152,000 strokes every year in the UK, around 1/3 of stroke survivors are left with a communication impairment and 40% will have an initial swallowing impairment!

Our new SLS seminar series starts again tomorrow. At the university we invite guest speakers to present their current research to us.

Tomorrow at 4pm - 5pm in LT5 KGVI building Patti Adank, from UCL will present research entitled "Automatic imitation of speech: investigating mechanisms governing perception-production links"

All upcoming seminars will be posted on this page, so keep an eye out if you are interested in coming along!

Today is Stammering Awareness Day. Did you know 8% of children are affected by developmental stammering and 3% continue to stammer into adulthood - that’s 1.5 million adults in the uk.

Are you interested in completing an international PhD scholarship related to speech-language pathology? Please get in touch - Dr Janet Webster from Newcastle University is a partner on this project.