Present
Seminar on parent child interaction
Thursday 9th April 2015 from 3 to 5pm
Programme
Dr Penny Levickis
Population approaches to identification, prediction and outcomes of children with lasting
language impairment
Penny Levickis is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre of Research Excellence in
Child Language (CRE-CL) at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne,
Australia. After developing a novel mechanism for the rigorous coding of a large number of
parent-child interactions as part of her PhD, she demonstrated that specific maternal
linguistic behaviours predict preschool language outcomes in a community-based sample of
slow-to-talk toddlers. She is now extending this work to examine the extent to which
maternal responsive behaviours may be measured in addition to the traditional use of low
language status in the early years to identify those children most at risk of persistent
language impairment. Penny and colleagues are also following up a large community-based
cohort of children as they turn 9 years of age to develop a risk chart for health professionals
to use as a method of predicting absolute risk of lasting language impairment.
Inge Klatte
An examination of parent-child interaction therapy in practice
Inge is a Dutch Speech & language therapist completing a three month internship at the
Bristol Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit (BSLTRU). For her Master’s degree in
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences her thesis is about Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
(PCIT).
There is a lot of variation in PCIT approaches: between the original interventions, in the way
they have been examined, and, in the way speech and language therapists (SLTs) deliver the
intervention. This study aims to find the overlapping, critical components of the PCIT
interventions, according to the manuals of the existing approaches, the literature and the
SLTs. Also, via interviews Inge will explore the rationales SLTs give for the way they structure
their interventions.
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Dr Yvonne Wren.
Using LENA to explore parent-child interaction
Yvonne is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Institute of Health Research and member of
the research team at BSLTRU. As part of the research for her fellowship, Yvonne is exploring
the use of LENA, a device for recording and analysing the speech environment of children
from 2 months of age upwards. The audio recording device is worn by the child within a tshirt or similar and records the child’s speech and their environment for 16 continuous
hours. Yvonne will share some pilot data on using LENA.
Prof Sue Roulstone
Understanding the effectiveness of adult-child interactions as a component of intervention
in pre-school children with primary speech and language impairments
Sue is Professor Emeritus at the University of the West of England and a member of the
team at BSLTRU. Over the last few years, Sue has led a programme of research called Child
Talk which has examined current clinical practice for pre-school children with primary
speech and language impairments, identifying the various components of intervention and
the related evidence. This presentation will examine the facilitation of adult-child
interactions in therapy in relation to other components of intervention and in terms of the
underpinning evidence. As well as presenting findings from Child Talk, Sue will present some
ideas that are being worked up as bids for further research funding.
There will be an opportunity to discuss the implications of the research for clinical
practice.
Cost £10 payable on arrival – thank you
April 9th, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location http://www.nbt.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/frenchay-hospital
Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit
Frenchay Hospital
Bristol, BS16 1LE
Phone: 0117 3406529
Email: info@speech-therapy.org.uk
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