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Thursday 23rd April 2015
Registration: Refreshments, exhibition and poster displays
9:00
Welcome – Anne Healy IASLT Chair
9:15
Opening Keynote Address: Prof. Pamela Enderby: The Great Irish Bake Off – How to avoid the Soggy Bottom.
10:00
Refreshments, exhibition and poster displays: Refreshments sponsored by Fresenius Kabi
Paediatric Seminar
10:30
12:30
Guest Speaker Prof. Sue Roulstone:
Measuring outcomes in children's speech and language impairment
Dr. Rena Lyons: What about us? Children’s perspectives and implications for
practice
Aoife Redmond: Critical appraisal of the Dublin South East speech and language
therapy service for children with speech, language and communication needs
Juliann Bergin: Apps as AAC: What’s APPropriate?
Lifespan &
Multilingualism Seminar
8:15
Guest Speaker Prof. Helen Grech:
Speech-Language Development & Disorder in Bilingual Children
Dr. Ciara O’Toole: Parent report of early lexical production in bilingual children across
varied contexts
Nicole Müller: Irish-English bilinguals in residential nursing care
Aoife O’Reilly: Speech and Language Therapists in palliative care: international
perspectives on current practice
Lunch, exhibition and poster displays: Lunch sponsored by Nutricia
Colette Gill: Dysphagia and Pneumonia in Nursing
Home Residents – Which Side Are You On?
Guest Speaker: Dr. Gaye Powell: Evidencing the
effectiveness & impact of speech & language therapy
interventions: A profession-wide approach to
measuring outcomes
Ashling Ryan: Expressive and Receptive Language Skills in
Preschool Children from a Socially Disadvantaged Area
Rosanne Staveley: Introducing The Eden
Alternative as a way to prevent loneliness,
helplessness & boredom in nursing home settings:
an SLT perspective
Prof. Sue Franklin: CaMMUL Case Management
Model University of Limerick – A new model to
facilitate case management
Anne-Sophie O’Connell, Pauline Ackermann , Liane Deasy,
Gillian Eggleston and Aising O’Dwyer: Management of
Paediatric Voice: Paediatric Voice Assessment
Michelle Quinn and Catriona Mulhall: Languageland: a
whole class approach to providing speech and language
therapy to mainstream preschools
Sarah McGlinn and Lorraine Hynes: Innovative and
integrated infant mental health: the role of SLTs in
supporting a universal programme to promote
communication and language development of 0-3 year olds
Lesley Doyle and Kitty McElligott: The affects of
dysphagia and gastrostomy feeding on quality of
life for people with Motor Neurone Disease
Stacey Daly: “I didn’t like having to feed him
because it was like feeding a child”. Evolving
identities in the context of Motor Neurone
Disease: Dysphagia as experienced by the primary
carer
Education Seminar
Jennifer Keogh: Accuracy of the Core Language Score of the
CELF Preschool 2 UK in identifying language delay in children
from a disadvantaged community in Ireland
Adult Seminar
Paediatric Seminar
14:00
Louise Gallagher Sterritt: Action Research in SLT:
what it is and how to do it
Olivia Kerrigan: Symptoms of self-reported
laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) in an adult clinical
population presenting with a primary diagnosis of
dysphonia
16:00
Closing Keynote Speaker: Dr. Philip Crowley, HSE National Director for Quality and Patient Safety: Improving the quality of care – everyone’s job
16:45
AGM
18:15
Meet and Mingle:Move4Parkinson’s Voice of Hope Choir
Friday 24th April 2015
08:15
Registration: Refreshments, exhibition and poster displays
09:00
Welcome
09:15
Opening Keynote Address: Dr. John Sharry : Solution-focused Groupwork – can groups be a more effective way of delivering services to clients?
10:00
Refreshments, exhibition and poster displays: Refreshments sponsored by Wiltshire Farm Foods
Guest Speaker: Dr. Carol Anne Murphy: Language comprehension difficulties in
school-age children aged 6-8: can deductive approaches effect change?
Guest Speaker Prof. Pamela Enderby: Description and validation of a tool to classify
the needs of patients.
Aoife Gallagher and Dr Susan Ebbels: An exploration of longitudinal outcomes in
adolescents with specific language impairment on language, literacy and educational
measures following a direct, integrated (school-based) speech and language therapy
model of intervention
Aoife O’Reilly: A case of acquired apraxic agraphia and specific peripheral dyslexia
Prof. Sue Franklin: Vocabulary Intervention for Adolescents Attending Secondary
School in an Area of Socioeconomic Disadvantage: A Whole Class Teaching Approach
Eimear Ryan: Developing a Speech & Language Service for Adolescents in Secure Care
in Ireland
Cáit O'Halloran and Claire Mullally: Use of technology in rehabilitation for adults with
acquired communication disorders (iPad and Application for a dysgraphia
rehabilitation)
Nicole Müller: Distributed cognition and cognitive-communication skills in dementia
Áine Sheehy: Communication Challenges and Coping Strategies of Adults with ADHD
in the Workplace
12:45
Lunch, exhibition and poster displays
Dysphagia - Joint Seminar
Paediatric Speech Seminar
Anne Barrett: An Insight into Dysphagia Assessment by Novice and Expert SLTs Using Eye-Tracker Technology
Aileen Wright: Prioritising treatment for children with
speech sound disorders (SSDs): implications from a
longitudinal study of 75 children
Irene Calvo: How accurate are paediatric clinical swallow
examinations in diagnosing aspiration? A review of the
evidence
Carol Gilmore and Sara Dallapè: Dysphagia as a cause of
chronic respiratory symptoms in typically developing
children
Celia Butler: A profile of feeding and swallowing skills in
infants presenting with vocal cord paralysis and coexisting cardiac conditions in an acute paediatric teaching
hospital
Sinead Monaghan and Carol Gilmore: Audit of
Videofluroscopy (VFSS) Results in Children with
Laryngomalacia +/- aryepiglottic surgical intervention
Adult Dysphagia Seminar
Paediatric Dysphagia Seminar
14:15
16:00
Adult Seminar
School-Age Language Seminar
10:45
Aifric Conway: Validating a Novel Tongue Pressure
Measurement Device: Research Challenges
Sharon Howard: Examining the Influence of
Phonological Structure and Accent on Non-word
Repetition and its Correlation with Language in Threeto-Five Year Old Typically Developing Children
Jennifer Moloney: Outcomes of a Free Water Protocol in
an Acute and Rehabilitation Hospital Setting
Nóirín Carroll: A review of speech assessment results
for children with cleft palate who underwent
secondary palatal surgery
Éadaoin Flynn: Modification of food and fluid consistency
for swallowing difficulties in dementia: A Systematic
review of the evidence
Rebecca Candon: Alternative and Augmentative
Communication access through eye gaze technology –
“The pitfalls and great promise”
Becky Woods: The diagnostic accuracy of the Mann
assessment of swallowing ability for detecting dysphagia
and aspiration in a cohort of people with Multiple
Sclerosis
Closing Keynote Speaker: Prof. Helen Grech, IALP Chairperson: IALP and the Progression of SLT as a Profession