BSc (Hons) in
Speech & Language Sciences
(previously: BSc (Hons) in Speech/
BSc (Hons) in Speech & Psychology)
DISSERTATIONS
(RESEARCH PROJECTS)
1979 - 2006
(In alphabetical order, by Author)
Speech and Language Sciences
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Abram - see Hunter
Algar, L (1993) Applying conversational and psycholinguistic analysis to indirect intervention
in anomic aphasia: two case studies.
Allan, B (1991) Cruel Irony: a case study of ageism in inter-generational discourse.
Allen, N J (1997) Assessing the effectiveness of a parent-based language intervention
programme.
Allwood, L J (l985) Babbling: an observational study of two infants from different linguistic
environments.
Anderson, J M (l980) An investigation into the reading and spelling abilities in cleft palate.
Appleyard, S (1992) An investigation of voice quality in male monolingual children aged
between 4:00 and 6:11 years.
Astill, L (1993) The effect of social class on glottalisation patterns on Tyneside.
Arden, G (1998) Using the natural environment to enhance the functional communication of
Young Persons with profound and multiple learning disabilities in classroom activities.
Armstead, N (1992) The predictive nature of babbling. Can speech delay be anticipated?
Arnott, S (2004) A comparison of the acoustic variability of the speech of children with
different phonological disorders:Three case studies
Ashworth, L (2006) The perception of foreign accent in low pass filtered speech
Askew, M E (l985) An investigation of human figure drawing and completion skills.
Atherton, C (2005) The effects of syntactic, semantic and phonological information on
children’s novel word learning
Austin, V J (1999) Speech apraxia and ataxic dysarthria: an investigation into speech
variability.
Baerselman, J (1990) Your move? Children's conversational exchange in different situations.
Bailey, E (1994) A Study looking at the use of lexical verbs by a language-impaired Child
using the LARSP Framework of Analysis.
Balkwill H (1996) The quality and effects of social and communicative environment of a
nursing home for the elderly; from the perspectives of its residents and care staff.
Ball, A B (l987) Perception of childhood stuttering: a study of the subjective judgments of
trained and untrained groups.
Bannister, J (l979) Alternative forms of communication: some account of their use with
severely subnormal non-speaking institutionalized children.
Barker, PH (2001) Sociolinguistic variables: gender and dominance in undergraduate
students.
Barley, C. (2003) Investigating the effect of child gender on the segmental properties of child
directed speech
Barnes, R C (1999) A study of the grammatical development of reception – aged children in
three Tyneside schools.
Barnsley, G E (l987) Repair strategies used by aphasics and their conversational partners.
Bartley, N (2003) Exploring intensive interaction as a therapy approach for people with
profound and multiple learning disabilities: A case study
Bassett, B (l983) Input processing of phonologically disordered children.
Battye, J (1995) A case study on a set of language-impaired twins.
Baxendale, J (l985) Experiment to investigate the possibility of using the World Test as a
therapeutic technique in two social class groups.
Baxter, K L (l982) Grammatical knowledge in agrammatism: investigation of dissociation
between constructional and morphological abilities.
Beckwith, J (2001) Effect of auditory distractors during picture naming in children with word
finding difficulties.
Benfield, J K (2002) Short-term memory of children with specific language impairment: Is
there a deficit in rehersal?
Bills, J (l984) The linguistic characteristics of early disfluency and normal nonfluency.
Blundell, N (2005) Developing speech acts via AAC in older childhood: A single case study
Bodonyi, C J M (l986) An investigation into the screening of nursery school children for
language disorders.
Booth, C (l988) Stereotypic reactions towards Tyneside accented speech relative to RP; three
phonological variables within the Tyneside accent.
Booth, EE (2000) Semantic inhibition effects in aphasic and non-aphasic lexical access:
Conceptual versus lemma processing.
Bourne, E M (l983) Comprehension of comparatives by young children
Bourne, F (2006) An investigation into the effects of a vocabulary instruction programme on
poor readers who differ in word decoding abilities.
Boyd, H (1991) Acquisition of second order beliefs in British children.
Brasher, J A (l98l) Short term memory in profoundly deaf and hearing subjects for static and
moving hand signs.
Bridgens, J H (l980) A study of relations between speech and reading in children with
language disabilities of a phonological nature.
Brierley, Laura (2003) Treatment of anomia and the application of errorless learning
Briggs, L A (l986) A case study of language-impaired twins.
Brock, L J (l985) Modality-specific imagery in the paired-associate learning of blind,
partially-sighted and sighted subjects.
Brown, A (l982) The effect of adult linguistic variables on the speech of young language
disordered children.
Brown, A (1992) An investigation of phonetic variation in two modes of discourse in
dysarthric speakers.
Brown, W (l980) A comparison of the language of ESN (M) children with normal children in
a story retelling task using LARSP.
Browning, J (1991) Pre-reading skills in pre-school children: development of an observational
checklist for assessing a clinical population.
Brownsett, S (2005) Reversible sentences that are problematic for people with aphasia
Brunton, C D (1990) Phonological and pragmatic abilities of children with fragile x
syndrome.
Buchanan, L (1993) Single case study of a man with severe learning difficulties interacting
with key communicators.
Buck, F (1993) An auditory and acoustic study of intonation in Dysarthric speech resulting
from Parkinson's disease.
Burke, A (l98l) Vocal image: Fact or fiction?
Burnand, L (1994) Early phonological ability in 'dyslexic' children.
Burns, AM (2001) The effects of oral storytelling upon written language.
Burt, L (1997) The development of standardised scores for phonological processing and
phonological awareness in pre-school children.
Burton, J (1995) Metalinguistic awareness of grammaticality in verb forms of 8 and 9 year old
children.
Butler, J (l988) Semantic pragmatic disorder: a case study.
Cahoon, C (2006) An analysis of linguistic and pragmtic change in aphasic conversation
following intensive speech and language therapy
Cairns, M (1995) Normal children's ability to use analogy in spelling and its links with their
rhyming skills.
Campbell A (2005) The effect of listening conditions on the measurement of dysarthric
speech intelligibility
Card, S R (2002) Phonological awareness in congenitally speechless individuals: A study of
individuals with Cerebral Palsy- with and without speech.
Carey, J M (l985) Amer-Ind gestural code as a means of non-vocal communication for a
young aphasic and apraxic patient.
Carr, AM (2001) Letter recognition, recall and reproduction: cognitive processes of letter
knowledge in emerging literacy.
Carr, E (2003) An analysis of the expressive and receptive prosodic abilities of young adults
with high functioning Autism and Aspergers Syndrome
Castell, C (1996) Comparing Phonological Inconsistency and Digit Span in Children with
Down's Syndrom and Children with Phonological Disorder.
Chadwick, M (l989) Responses to requests for clarification in language impaired children.
Chalk, L (2003) Efficacy of a classroom-based speaking and listening programme
Chamberlain, R (2003) A study of the relationship between the development of knowledge of
phonological constraints in monolingual children and successive bilingual children
Chastney, R (1994) The application of conversation analysis to indirect therapy with aphasic
patients: two case studies.
Chatterton, E (1996) An investigation into the effect of speaker familiarity on conversations
with subjects with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type: two case studies.
Chilcott, C (2001) Perceptions of dysarthric speakers and their primary communication
partners.
Chinnery, C (1995) Acoustic analysis of co-articulation in dyspraxic speech.
Chivers, A K (l986) A linguistic study of the writing of bilingual children.
Clamp, J (1998) A Prospective Study of the Literacy Skills of Phonologically Disordered
Children.
Clark, JC (1999) Single word reading and lexical access: the phonologically mediated
priming effect and differences in processing between open and closed-class words.
Clark, P (1991) Acoustic and perceptual analysis of pre-speech.
Clarke, P (l989) An evaluation of melodic intonation therapy.
Clay, A (1998) An observational study of the differences in patterns of types and loci of
stuttering in monolingual speakers of the German and English languages.
Clayton, R (l984) A consideration of the young language and attention delayed child in his
environment.
Coates, M A (2000) The reliability of the preschool inventory of phonological awareness.
Cockerill, H (l983) A study of spelling errors made by phonologically deviant hearing
impaired, and normal children on regular, rule-governed and rare words.
Cole, F M (l979) The influence of memory and linguistic structure on Token Test
performance.
Collins, E M (l98l) The acquisition of English as a second language for vocabulary of
understanding and for syntactic production and comprehension, in a group of Punjabi
speaking children, after three months of second language learning, after fifteen months and
after twenty-seven months.
Colmar, A (l982) The effect of three different speech sampling techniques on the responses of
children with delayed, deviant and normal phonology.
Conlin, P (1996) An acoustical and perceptual analysis of the ability of people with Down's
Syndrome to produce contrastive stress.
Conlon, M (l988) Pantomime recognition ability in severe aphasics.
Conn, L (1998) The Effect of Braille Orthography on Blind Children's Phonological
Awareness.
Conway, N R (1990) Repair in the conversations of two dysphasics with members of their
families.
Costa, C S (2002) New word learning in typically developing children and children with
specific language impairment.
Coulston, E (1997) The evaluation of an intensive stuttering therapy group, for 9-14 year olds,
focusing specifically on two children.
Counsell, J A (l982) Word association in Punjabi-English bilingual children: The syntagmatic
shift.
Cowhig, M E (l986) A quantitative analysis of phonological variables in the speech of
Newcastle school children.
Cox, L C (1997) The relationship between measures of language and use of communicative
gestures in language normal and language delayed children.
Craggs, G T (1998) POKIT: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Crockford, C (1991) Assessing functional communication in aphasia: a comparison of three
methods.
Croft, V (2003) Language processing in Parkinson’s Disease patients without dementia or
depression: A comparison across the levodopa medication cycle
Cross, S J (l979) Speech therapy for aphasic stroke patients: A study of need and provision.
AEffects of Lexical Stress on Aphasic Word Repetition
Cundale, H (2002) Inconsistent deviant disorder: A case study.
Currey, A L (1998) Effects of Lexical Stress on Aphasic Word Repetition.
Currill, R L (2002) Parent-child interaction after attendance on a hanen “more than words”
course.
Curwood, H (2003) The prevalence and nature of pragmatic comprehension difficulties in
adolescent children
Dare, M E (1999) Errorless learning in anomia therapy.
D'Aulby, H (1991) The neuropsycholinguistic analysis of spelling - a case study.
Davies, A C (1990) Communicative strategies of two oesophageal speakers.
Davies, J (l987) The effects of poor intelligibility (as a result of severe phonological
impairment) on discourse, and its implications for language learning.
Davies, S M (1990) Knowledge and beliefs about speech and language development:
interviews with parents.
Dent C (2006) The relationship between a sure start early screening initiative and intervention
and childrens assessment outcomes at 24–26 months
Dent, J (l986) The acquisition of the definite and indefinite article by Downs' Syndrome
subjects: a comparison.
Dixon, J (2004) Concurrent validity of the sentences and grammar subscale of the Newcastle
CDI for children aged 25-29 months
Dobson, R (1991) Code-switching and language choice in bilingual children: a community
comparison.
Docherty K (2005) The effects of syntactic, semantic and phonological information on novel
word learning in children with SLI
Dodds, J E (l985) An analysis of communicative ability in the elderly.
Dowsborough K (2006) Children with language disorder: a follow-up study
Duffy, A (1995) Intelligibility after stroke: does attention to effort produce clearer speech.
Duncan, R (1994) The use of communication strategies by dysfluent speakers and bilingual
speakers.
Earle, L (1993) The effects of senile dementia of Lewy Body type on communication: a
preliminary study.
Eason, C H (l985) Early disfluency or normal nonfluency: their linguistic characteristics and
the way they change over time.
Eccles, J E (l980) An analysis and comparison of spontaneous and elicited speech errors; their
relation to speech production and aphasic speech.
Edmundson, A (l984) Semantic competence in aphasia: an investigation of the lexical
semantic organization of Broca's and Wernicke's type aphasics.
Edwards, L (1992) An investigation of the relationship between language level and play
behaviour in Down Syndrome and normally developing children.
Edwards, J (1996) Word retrieval in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type: a
psycholinguistic study of the retrieval of words in isolation, within sentences and within
connected speech.
Elliott, N (2003) Vocabulary acquisition in two contexts
Ellis, T-J (1999) An investigation of speechreading in profoundly prelingually deaf adults,
using the Test of Adult Speechreading (TAS).
Eve, L (1997) Conservation analysis approach to the assessment of communication and the
intervention programme of two people with cognitive impairment.
Fairclough J (2005) An investigation of the phonological awareness skills of fluent and
dysfluent children
Farrier, F (2004) A study into the phonological awareness, reading accuracy and spelling
ability of children with inconsistent phonology disorder
Fearn, K (2001) An investigation into the normal within session fluctuation of voice quality.
A comparison between normal and dysphonic speakers.
Fenton, AM (2001) Phonological process use in four-year-old children from an inner city
population.
Fenwick, P (1991) A study of children's verbal turn-taking.
Fergus, C E (2002) The communication abilities of laryngectomy speakers.
Fielder, M E (l980) An investigation of immediate and delayed memory recall in autistic
children.
Finley, D E (l986) Differences in the early interaction between disadvantaged mothers and
their babies: an investigation into the effects of intervention and information on the quality of
interaction.
Finnie, K (l988) Otitis media and child development (a review of the literature).
Fleming, C (l989) An analysis of the communication strategies employed by aphasics when
conversing with other aphasics.
Forrester, L (1996) An analysis of stress production by four children with profound prelingual hearing impairment.
Fountain E (2006) Predicting communicative competence at 24 months from pragmatic skills
at 12 months: assessing the validity of sure start’s sstt screen
Foy, N (1992) A conversation analysis approach to the study of a cerebral palsied child's
interaction with two different communicative partners.
Friedman, J (1996) A comparison of working memory performance for dyslexic children and
age matched controls.
Fryer, C (l984) An experimental study of word finding difficulty in an anomic patient.
Fulford, L (2006) Validity of a parent report measure of vocabulary for children with autistic
spectrum disorder
Fulton, L (l980) A study of the semantic systems of aphasics.
Gair, L (1996) Formal and informal speech and language assessments of 5-6 year old children:
a comparison of two areas of Tyneside with differing levels of disadvantage and deprivation.
Gamon (nee Puttock), V (2003) Do subjects with poor naming abilities have poor functional
communication output?
Gandy, H (l989) The efficacy of prosodic therapy in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's
Disease.
Gascoigne, L (l98l) The usefulness of a Stroop type interference task as a measure of lexical
semantic competence in aphasic patients.
Gibb, C E (1990) Discourse strategies used by professional carers and relatives in
conversations with Alzheimer patients.
Gill, H (l983) How do children read new words aloud? An investigation of analogical versus
rule-based strategies.
Gill, J L (1997) The adaptation of the language development survey to British English and its
validation using a sample of British 24-27 month old children.
Gilmour, R (1993) Conversational abilities in two classroom contexts: a case study of a child
with specific language impairment.
Gisby, J (l979) Blissymbolics as an alternative mode of communication for cerebrally palsied
children.
Goddard, MT (2001) Differences in phonological awareness between dysfluent and fluent
children.
Godliman, K (1999) An evaluative study of Speech and Language Therapy to promote
feminine voice and speech characteristics in two male-to-female transexuals.
Golder, H (l988) Structured conversational interaction tasks. Turn-taking and topic shift in
Alzheimer's disease subjects.
Goldthorpe, H (1996) The early identification of expressive language delay in 24 month old
British infants, using a language screening tool developed in the USA.
Goodbourn, D (l98l) Preferred processing codes of hearing manually trained and orally trained
deaf subjects.
Goulding, K (1996) Inferential understanding in the child with specific language impairment:
assessment and therapeutic intervention.
Graham, C J (2002) A detailed case study of a differential diagnostic problem between a
functional and neurological disorder.
Green, N L (1998) The Impact of Cognitive Neuropsychological Impairments and
Communicative Context on Conversational Repair in Aphasia: Two Case Studies
Greening, S (l983) Knowledge and opinions of speech therapy in potential referers.
Greetham, ME (2001) Glossolalia: A Christian and Linguistic Analysis.
Grenville H (2005) New word learning in specific language impairment: Can rate
manipulation help in therapy?
Guest, S K (l985) The organisation of play materials in language disordered children and its
relationship to language.
Gullen O (2006) A comparison of the expressive language samples produced from the errni
(initial story telling component) and the celf– 3uk (formulated sentences subtest)
Habgood, R (l989) Agrammatism: the role of nouns and verbs.
Hack, E (1994) Naive Listeners perception of voice quality.
Haggar, J (l987) Interruption in conversational interaction between stammerers and nonstammerers.
Hall, M (1994) Child protection and abuse: a survey of the training provision for Speech and
Language Therapists from the Northern Region of England.
Hall, R (l989) An evaluation of a parental intervention programme designed for use with preschool children.
Halliday, D (1991) An individualised approach to the indirect treatment of young dysfluent
children: a family study.
Hamilton, C M L (l984) Auditory memory for sounds, words and nonsense words in
phonologically deviant children.
Hamilton, J (1992) Language and epilepsy: a case study.
Hamilton, P (2003) Vocabulary of four and five year old children in an orthodox Jewish
community
Harrison, C (2001) Validity and preliminary norms for a British English adaptation of the
MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories: Toddlers.
Harcourt, J (1998) Voice Quality Variability in Bilinguals: An Instrumental and Perceptual
Investigation
Hardwick, N (1998) Does Having a History of a Speech Disorder Always Predict Later
Phonological Awareness and Literacy Problems?: An Investigation of the Cleft Lip and
Palate Population.
Harris, C (l983) A study of object constancy, recognition and classification impairments, and
semantic-lexical deficits after right brain damage.
Harris, N (l983) Response of three agrammatic adults to a syntax therapy programme.
Hart, K L (1990) Conversation in clinic of student speech therapists interacting with
phonologically delayed and dysfluent children.
Hartley, S (1992) A study of the effects of sex and age on glottalization patterns in the speech
of Tyneside schoolchildren.
Hartley, K (l988) Scottish students in Newcastle: a study of linguistic accommodation.
Harvey, S (l983) The error processes involved in the auditory discriminative responses of
aphasics.
Haughton, K M (l985) The acquisition of certain deictic terms by Downs' Syndrome children.
Hawkes, C (1995) Phonological awareness, intelligence and reading: a correlational study.
Hayes, SR (2001) Exposing interaction in the speech production system: The effects of
neighbourhood density and probabilistic phonotactics on the speech of people with apraxia of
speech and phonemic paraphasia.
Heal, N (2001) The early identification of children with speech and/or language difficulties.
A survey of UK NHS Speech and Language Therapy and Health Visiting Management.
Heaton, V E (l98l) A study of the relationship between iconic memory and reading ability in
seven and nine year old children.
Heptinstall, j (2006) shared mother-toddler book reading: the influence of child gender on
maternal interaction style
Herrington, J (1993) Presymptomatic detection of Huntington' chorea in the speech of "at
risk" subjects.
Hewes, Z A (2002) Factors effecting the imaginative story telling of normal 9 year olds.
Hickie, P (2003) The effect of levodopa therapy on speech intelligibility in Parkinson’s
disease: a comparison across the medication cycle
Hill, H (2006) Dysfluency in parkinson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple
systems atrophy
Hill, I A (1994) An in-depth investigation of discourse management in senile dementia using
conversation analysis.
Hilsdon, E A (l983) Visual perceptual skills and reading ability in hearing impaired and poor
reading children.
Hoare, C (l988) An investigation of cohesion and reference in schizophrenic discourse.
Hobson, P (l982) Recency and suffix effects in the serial ordered recall of lipread, auditory
and graphic lists by congenitally deaf and hearing subjects.
Hodges, J E (l98l) An investigation into the ability of five and seven year old children to
understand metaphors and similies.
Hole, E (l988) The effect of reading ability on the written and spoken language of children
aged 9-ll.
Holmes, C (1995) Voice evaluation of Trainee Teachers: an acoustic and perceptual analysis.
Holmes, H (2000) Phonetic variation and percepts of accentedness.
Hood, E (1997) The influence of prolonged exposure of a non-native language on language
processing in proficient bilingual speakers.
Hopkins L (2005) Examining the presence of verbal dyspraxia amongst young adults with
Asperger’s syndrome
Houghton, Y (1997) Child's Play: the developing ability to sustain attention to a task during an
interactive setting.
Houlton, R F (2000) Pre-school inventory of phonological awareness: Validity and influence
of socio-economic status.
Howarth, T M (l985) An evaluation of the Newcastle Support Scheme for Relatives of
Aphasic Patients.
Hughes, H (2002) Do parents’ attitudes towards speech and language therapy change due to
the experience of their child’s therapy?
Humfress, K (1999) Homophone and pseudohomophone effects in undergraduates with
developmental dyslexia.
Hunt, M A (l987) The pattern of interaction between one mother and her language-delayed
child: factors which influence the pattern of interaction.
Hunter (Abram), P (l988) Auditory comprehension above the sentence level: a comparison
between aphasia, Altzheimer and right-hemisphere damage.
Irvine J (2005)Investigation of the grammatical abilities of children with and without specific
language impairment using a new profile chart
Ivamy, GE (2000) Factors affecting phonological acquisition: gender, socio-economic status
and birth order.
Jackson, N (1997) The phonological awareness skills of bilingual children and a comparative
study of the monolingual control data with an Australian population.
Jarvis, C (l980) A comparison of phonologies of young adult Downs' syndrome and nonDowns' syndrome severely subnormal subjects, resident in an institution.
Jarvis, V (2004) Fast mapping of animate vs. inanimate objects in children with Specific
Language Impairment (SLI)
Jenkins, H (2004) The effect of measures of matching on verb diversity in Specific Language
Impairment and typically developing, language matched children
Jennings, Charis (2004) Do children with behaviour and language problems differ in their
abilities to make inferences as compared to age and reading matched controls?
Johnson, E K (1999) The relationship between measures gained in formal assessment and
occurrence of naming errors and self repair in conversational speech in individuals’ with
aphasia: an investigation.
Johnson, J (2003) Phonetic differences in child directed speech to opposite sex twins
Johnson, KS (2000) The phonological abilities of adults with Down Syndrome.
Johnson, KR (2000) A comparison of the phonological awareness skills in children with
different speech disorders.
Jolly, A (l984) Memory in the mentally-retarded: A review of the literature.
Jones B (2005) Running head: Referential assessment of gesture. Development of a referential
assessment of expressive gesture
Jones, G (l984) Perception of lexical stress as a function of the right hemisphere of the brain.
Jones, J A (l983) Effects of visual cues on the intelligibility of oesophageal speech.
Jones, R (1998) Picture book reading with twins in dyadic and triadic situations.
Jones, RB (2001) Re-evaluating the Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC): Is it a
reliable assessment tool to differentiate children with semantic-pragmatic impairment from
within a population of children with SLI?
Jones, S E (l985) A comparison of three types of speech sample as judged by fluent speakers
and stammerers and a comparison of these two groups of judges
Joyner L (2006) Attitudes towards writing of literacy impaired children: the effects of
traditional and metacognitive writing instruction.
Keightley, KVC (2001) An intervention case study for phonological disorder in a child with
Prader-Willi syndrome.
Kelly, L (1993) Language development profiles in children with early repair of cleft-palate:
cross-sectional and longitudinal data.
Kennedy, R (2000) Nonword repetition: not a pure measure of phonological working memory
King, R (1996) An efficacy study of non-directive play therapy for the remediation of a child's
interactional skills.
Kilford, A D (l986) The development of linguistic characteristics of early dysfluency and
normal non-fluency: a longitudinal study.
Kittle, S E (1999) The phonological awareness abilities of preschool identical and fraternal
Twins.
Krauth, H (1995) Speech naturalness ratings of post-treatment stutter patients.
Lace K (2005) The relationship between children’s vocabulary development and specific
aspects of the carer’s linguistic input
Lambert, C (1995) Acoustic and perceptual analysis of patients having been treated with
radiotherapy for laryngeal carcinoma.
Lambert G (2005) Coding interactions between children with motor impairment and their
mothers: What’s missing?
Langton J (2005) A comparison of the mean and range of fundamental frequency of female
tracheoesophageal (te) speech with male te and laryngeal speakers and it’s influence in a
gender recognition task
Lare, S (l984) An observational study of three possible cases of crossed aphasia in dextrals
(Vol l plus Appendix in 2 Vols).
Lavery, E B (l985) An investigation of the psychological effects of twin-ships on the
development of identity concepts in normal sex twins.
Lawrie, B A (2004) Does phonological awareness training affect the acquisition of literacy
skills in sure start children?
Lawson, J M (l979) A comparative study of the ability of two clinical aphasic groups to
comprehend linguistic structure.
Laws, K (2004) Accuracy of the PLS-UK and Celf-Preschool UK in identifying children with
language difficulties
Lazarus, J (l984) The contribution of the right cerebral hemisphere to paragraph arrangement
and recall.
Lee, C (1993) A preliminary investigation into Teachers' voice usage.
Lees D (l983) Preferred processing codes of communication disordered children.
Lindsay, D J (l986) The analysis and comparison of spelling errors made by normal children,
children with specific spelling impairment and children with reading and spelling impairment.
Little, C L (1990) Which bhaasaa shall I use now? Code-switching in young Bengalis.
Little, L (1992) Tips of the slongue: experimental elicitation of semantically and
phonologically biased spoonerisms via computer screen presentation.
Little, R (2000) What does the Cinderella tell us? A comparison of naming between
connected speech and confrontational naming.
Livesey, A R (l986) An investigation into dysfluencies and pause phenomena in the speech of
young children.
Lonie, J (l982) Intonation as a cue to speech act identification in aphasic patients.
Low, G M (1990) Conversation, reference and cohesion in schizophrenia.
Lozano, S C, (2002) Language impairment in children with emotional/behavioural difficulties
and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Prevelance, characteristics and teacher
perceptions.
Lucas, S A (l982) An investigation into the importance of lip-read information for
phonologically deviant children.
Lumsden, C (1993) Phonological difficulties of Chinese/English bilingual children.
Lynn, FJD (2000) Varying feedback schedules on motor speech acquisition and retention: A
preliminary investigation.
Magennis, R (2006) The influence of deep brain stimulation and ‘best medical treatment’ on
speech, voice and swallowing in parkinson’s disease – a pilot study
Makin, A (1995) How do people hear and evaluate their own voice?
Makin, V (1993) Fluctuations in the language of senile dementia of Lewy-body type patients.
Mannion, A (l983) The effect of intervention on social cognitive abilities in ESN (M)
children.
Marr, C E (1999) The concurrent validity of British English adaptations of the long and short
forms of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (Toddlers).
Marriott, H (1997) Serial ordered recall of signed and lip-read stimuli by deaf and hearing
subjects.
Marshall, H R (1997) Intonation and speech intelligibility in dysarthria.
Mattocks, C (l988) A long term case study of the development of segmentation, reading and
spelling skills in a child with difficulties at the phonological/phonetic levels of language
organization.
Maze, A (2006) Investigating the role of perceptual speech analysis in improving diagnostic
accuracy in progressive supranuclear palsy (psp), multiple system atrophy with prominent
parkinsonism (msa-p) and idiopathic parkinson’s disease (ipd)
McCann,K (2004) Association of depression with intelligibility and perceptual evaluations of
speech in Parkinson’s disease
McCann, R (2003) The Relationship between the spoken and written naming systems –
variable and error patterns.
McClea S, J (2005) Acoustic and perceptual measurements of voice in individuals with
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DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 2006
(Academic Year – 2005/2006)
NAME
TITLE
Lauren Ashworth
THE PERCEPTION OF FOREIGN ACCENT IN LOW
PASS FILTERED SPEECH
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF A
VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION PROGRAMME ON
POOR READERS WHO DIFFER IN WORD
DECODING ABILITIES
AN ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC AND PRAGMTIC
CHANGE IN APHASIC CONVERSATION
FOLLOWING INTENSIVE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
THERAPY
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A SURE START
EARLY SCREENING INITIATIVE AND
INTERVENTION AND CHILDRENS ASSESSMENT
OUTCOMES AT 24–26 MONTHS
CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE DISORDER: A
FOLLOW-UP STUDY
PREDICTING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AT
24 MONTHS FROM PRAGMATIC SKILLS AT 12
MONTHS: ASSESSING THE VALIDITY OF SURE
START’S SSTT SCREEN
VALIDITY OF A PARENT REPORT MEASURE OF
VOCABULARY FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISTIC
SPECTRUM DISORDER
A COMPARISON OF THE EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
SAMPLES PRODUCED FROM THE ERRNI (INITIAL
STORY TELLING COMPONENT) AND THE CELF–
3UK (FORMULATED SENTENCES SUBTEST)
SHARED MOTHER-TODDLER BOOK READING: THE
INFLUENCE OF CHILD GENDER ON MATERNAL
INTERACTION STYLE
DYSFLUENCY IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE,
PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY AND
MULTIPLE SYSTEMS ATROPHY
ATTITUDES TOWARDS WRITING OF LITERACY
IMPAIRED CHILDREN: THE EFFECTS OF
TRADITIONAL AND METACOGNITIVE WRITING
INSTRUCTION
THE INFLUENCE OF DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
AND ‘BEST MEDICAL TREATMENT’ ON SPEECH,
VOICE AND SWALLOWING IN PARKINSON’S
DISEASE – A PILOT STUDY
INVESTGATING THE ROLE OF PERCEPTUAL
SPEECH ANALYSIS IN IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC
ACCURACY IN PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR
PALSY (PSP), MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY WITH
PROMINENT PARKINSONISM (MSA-P) AND
IDIOPATHIC PARKINSON’S DISEASE (IPD)
FOLLOW-UP OF SPEECH & LITERACY SKILLS IN
CHILDREN DISCHARGED FROM SPEECH AND
LANGUAGE THERAPY FOLLOWING INTERVENTION
AND FOLLOWING FAILURE TO ATTEND
INTERVENTION
NOUNS OR VERBS? EVALUATING THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO TECHNIQUES FOR THE
TREATMENT OF VERB SEMANTIC IMPAIRMENTS
Fiona Bourne
Claire Cahoon
Chloe Dent
Katherine Downsborough
Eleanor Fountain
Lauren Fulford
Olivia Gullen
Jacqueline Heptinstall (nee Ross)
Hayley Hill
Louise Joyner
Ruth Magennis
Angela Maze
Judi Miskelly
Catherine Peat
Jennifer Read
Tessa Roberts
EFFECTS OF A PHYSICAL EXERCISE PROGRAMME
ON SPEECH, VOICE AND SWALLOWING IN
MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES
THE LIVE EVALUATION OF SPOUSES/PARTNERS
OF PEOPLE WITH APHASIA (LESPPA): THE
DESIGN OF A QUANTITATIVE TOOL OF MEASURE
THE IMPACT OF LIVING WITH SOMEBODY WHO
HAS POST-STROKE APHASIA
Lyndsey Thomas
A SINGLE CASE STUDY INVESTIGATING
Lucy Turner
Karen Ulyett
Sally Ward
Louise Wild
Stephanie Wood
FUNCTION WORD PERFORMANCE IN A
PARTCIPANT WHO HAS AGRAMMATIC APHASIA,
SENTENCE PROCESSING IMPAIRMENT AND DEEP
DYSLEXIA
STORY GRAMMAR INTERVENTION: ADDRESSING
THE ORAL NARRATIVE SKILLS OF THE SCHOOL
AGE CHILD
MEASURING SELF-ESTEEM IN CHILDREN WITH
LITERACY DIFFICULTIES
TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDRENS LANGUAGE
PERFORMANCE IN THREE ALTERNATIVE TYPES
OF NARRATIVE ASSESSMENT
INVESTIGATING THE PREVALENCE OF SPEECH,
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS IN
CEREBRAL PALSY, VIA CASE NOTE AUDIT. A
FEASIBILITY STUDY
SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN PEOPLE WITH
CHRONIC APHASIA: USING THE SNAP AS AN
ASSESSMENT TOOL
DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 2005
(Academic Year – 2004/2005)
NAME
TITLE
ATHERTON Claire
The effects of syntactic, semantic and phonological
information on children’s novel word learning
Developing speech acts via AAC in older childhood:
A single case study
Reversible sentences that are problematic for
people with aphasia
BLUNDELL Nicola
BROWNSETT Sonia
CAMPBELL Alison
The effect of listening conditions on the
measurement of dysarthric speech intelligibility
DOCHERTY Karen
The effects of syntactic, semantic and phonological
information on novel word learning in children with
SLI
FAIRCLOUGH Jane
An investigation of the phonological awareness
skills of fluent and dysfluent children
GRENVILLE Hannah
New word learning in specific language impairment:
Can rate manipulation help in therapy?
HOPKINS Lynsey
Examining the presence of verbal dyspraxia
amongst young adults with Asperger’s syndrome
IRVINE Jacqueline
Investigation of the grammatical abilities of children
with and without specific language impairment using
a new profile chart
JONES Bethan
Running head: Referential assessment of gesture.
Development of a referential assessment of
expressive gesture
LACE Katherine
The relationship between children’s vocabulary
development and specific aspects of the carer’s
linguistic input
LAMBERT Gemma
Coding interactions between children with motor
impairment and their mothers: What’s missing?
LANGTON Jane
A comparison of the mean and range of
fundamental frequency of female
tracheoesophageal (te) speech with male te and
laryngeal speakers and it’s influence in a gender
recognition task
MCCLEA Sarah Jane
Acoustic and perceptual measurements of voice in
individuals with Parkinson’s disease
MURRAY Laura
Generation of an orthographic representation on
auditory exposure to a novel word: A rhyme
judgement task
NEWTON Caroline
The Communication After Stroke (CAS)
questionnaire: developing and evaluating an
efficacy measure for use with people who have
aphasia
RAMSAY Annie
A study of the communication between care staff
and adults with autism in a residential setting
RENNIE Sarah
An investigation of the surface account as an
explanation for the morphological processing
difficulties of children with specific language
impairment
ROBSON Sheila
Speech Intelligibility and the perception of speech
intelligibility in the progression of Parkinson’s
disease
NAME
TITLE
TURNER Claire
The psychosocial impact of communication
changes on people with Parkinson’s disease and
their carers
WILSON Nicola
Reading between the lines: An investigation into the
reading comprehension skills of young people with
Asperger’s syndrome: inferred vs explicit meaning
WOOD Sarah
The prevalence of swallowing disorder in
Parkinson’s disease: subjective and objective
measurement
WRIGHT Caroline
An investigation into dysphagia in patients following
a total laryngectomy: The development of the
Dysphagia and Total Laryngectomy Scale (DATLS)
DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 2004
(Academic Year – 2003/2004)
NAME
TITLE
ARNOTT, SALLY
A COMPARISON OF THE ACOUSTIC VARIABILITY OF THE SPEECH OF
CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT PHONOLOGICAL DISORDERS: THREE CASE
STUDIES
DIXON, JULIE
CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF THE SENTENCES AND GRAMMAR SUBSCALE OF
THE NEWCASTLE CDI FOR CHILDREN AGED 25-29 MONTHS
FARRIER, FAITH
A STUDY INTO THE PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS, READING ACCURACY AND
SPELLING ABILITY OF CHILDREN WITH INCONSISTENT PHONOLOGY
DISORDER
JARVIS, VICTORIA
FAST MAPPING OF ANIMATE VS. INANIMATE OBJECTS IN CHILDREN WITH
SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT (SLI)
JENKINS, HAYLEY
THE EFFECT OF MEASURES OF MATCHING ON VERB DIVERSITY IN SPECIFIC
LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT AND TYPICALLY DEVELOPING, LANGUAGE
MATCHED CHILDREN
JENNINGS, CHARIS
DO CHILDREN WITH BEHAVIOUR AND LANGUAGE PROBLEMS DIFFER IN
THEIR ABILITIES TO MAKE INFERENCES AS COMPARED TO AGE AND READING
MATCHED CONTROLS?
LAWRIE, BARBARA-ANNE
DOES PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS TRAINING AFFECT THE ACQUISITION OF
LITERACY SKILLS IN SURE START CHILDREN?
LAWS, KATE
ACCURACY OF THE PLS-UK AND CELF-PRESCHOOL UK IN IDENTIFYING
CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES
McCANN, KATHERINE
ASSOCIATION OF DEPRESSION WITH INTELLIGIBILITY AND PERCEPTUAL
EVALUATIONS OF SPEECH IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
MCNAMARA, JUDY
AN ANALYSIS OF ERROR PATTERNS IN REPRODUCTION CONDUCTION
APHASIA.
MEAKIN, SALLY
A COMPARISON OF TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY WITHIN AN
ORTHODOX JEWISH KINDERGARTEN. WHICH METHODS OF TEACHING BEST
SERVES THESE CHILDREN NEEDS? IS IT A) BY WATCHING VIDEO
PRESENTATION, B) BY LISTENING TO NARRATIVE, OR C) LEARNING BY ROTE?
MOSLEY, SARAH
A COMPARISON OF NINE YEAR OLD CHILDREN’S WRITTEN AND ORAL STORY
TELLING SKILLS
PETERS, KIRSTY
INVESTIGATING THE COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION OF
ADOLESCENT USERS OF ALTERNATIVE AND AUGMENTATIVE
COMMUNICATION
SENIOR, JOANNE
THE CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF PART I: VOCABULARY CHECKLIST ON THE
NEWCASTLE CDI FOR CHILDREN AGED 2; 1-2; 5 MONTHS.
SMALLMAN, CLAIRE
DEVELOPING A CLINICAL TEST OF SINGLE WORD COMPREHENSION,
COMPARING VERBS AND NOUNS
SUTHERLAND, MORVEN
WORKING-DAY EFFECTS ON THE CALL CENTRE VOICE
TURNBULL, HANNAH
THE IMPACT OF IMPAIRED VOICE QUALITY ON YOUNG ADULTS PROCESSING
OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE
VIGOROUX, JENNIFER
THE IMPACT OF USING AN OPEN VERSUS CLOSED FORMAT DIAGNOSTIC
INTELLIGIBILITY TEST WITH DYSARTHRIC SPEAKERS
WALKER, KATHARINE
THE EFFECT OF ACCENT VARIABILITY WITHIN NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE ON
CHILDRENS SPEECH PERCEPTION.
WESTMAN, LISA
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY AND
THE PROGRESSION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
WHEELER, SARAH
DIFFERENCES IN WORD FINDING ABILITIES OF STAMMERING AND NONSTAMMERING PRIMARY SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN
WILSON, CAROLYN
EVALUATING THE USE OF SPOKEN PICTURE DESCRIPTION AS A MEASURE OF
THE EFICIENCY OF INTENSIVE THERAPY
NAME
TITLE
WRIGHT, DEB
EFFECTS OF L-DOPA MEDICATION AND MOTOR STATE ON VOICE DEFICITS
IN PARKINSONS DISEASE – AN ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS
DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 2003
(Academic Year – 2002/2003)
NAME
TITLE
Catharine Barley
Investigating the effect of child gender on the segmental
properties of child directed speech
Exploring intensive interaction as a therapy approach for
people with profound and multiple learning disabilities: A
case study
Treatment of anomia and the application of errorless
learning
An analysis of the expressive and receptive prosodic abilities
of young adults with high functioning Autism and Aspergers
Syndrome
Efficacy of a classroom-based speaking and listening
programme
A study of the relationship between the development of
knowledge of phonological constraints in monolingual
children and successive bilingual children
Language processing in Parkinson’s Disease patients without
dementia or depression: A comparison across the levodopa
medication cycle
The prevalence and nature of pragmatic comprehension
difficulties in adolescent children
Vocabulary acquisition in two contexts
Do subjects with poor naming abilities have poor functional
communication output?
Vocabulary of four and five year old children in an orthodox
Jewish community
The effect of levodopa therapy on speech intelligibility in
Parkinson’s disease: a comparison across the medication
cycle
Phonetic differences in child directed speech to opposite sex
twins
The relationship between the spoken and written naming
system – variable effects and error patterns
Conversation as a window into enabling communication: A
case study of a person with dementia of the Alzheimer type
(DAT) and his carer
Is the development of language and literacy influenced by
social disadvantage?
How do single word comprehension deficits affect
conversation in clients with aphasia?
Is there an effect of dysphonic teachers’ voices on children’s
processing of spoken language?
Lexical selection of the vocabulary acquisition of 24-26
month old children
What are the characteristics of word that improve after a
period of word retrieval therapy
The identification of specific language impairment: can
predicate argument structure be used as a marker?
Nicola Bartley
Laura Brierley
Elizabeth Carr
Louisa Chalk
Rosie Chamberlain
Vanessa Croft
Helen Curwood
Natalie Elliott
Victoria Gamon (nee Puttock)
Paula Hamilton
Paula Hickie
Joanne Johnson
Rachel McCann
Deborah Nicholson
Ilka Oxenfarth
Heather Rae
Jemma Rogerson
Ranelle Smith
Alexandra Wiles
Clare Wood
Deborah Wright
Natalie Yeaman
The Cinderella Story: Development of an efficacy measure
for use in speech and language therapy with people with
acquired aphasia
DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 2001
(Academic Year – 2000/2001)
NAME
Philippa Helen BARKER
TITLE
Sociolinguistic Variables, Gender and Dominance
in Undergraduate Students
Jennifer BECKWITH
Effect of Auditory Distractors during Picture
Naming in Children with Word Finding
Difficulties
Annabelle Mary BURNS
The Effects of Oral Storytelling upon Written
Language
Alexandra Margaret CARR
Letter Recognition, Recall and Reproduction:
Cognitive Processes of Letter Knowledge in
Emerging Literacy
Christine CHILCOTT
Perceptions of Dysarthric Speakers and their
Primary Communication Partners
Karen FEARN
An Investigation into the Normal Within Session
Fluctuation of Voice Quality. A Comparison
between Normal and Dysphonic Speakers
Adrienne Michelle FENTON
Phonological Process Use in Four-Year Old
Children from an Inner City Population
Mandy Theresa GODDARD
Differences in Phonological Awareness between
Dysfluent and Fluent Children
Mary Elizabeth GREETHAM
Glossolalia: A Christian and Linguistic Analysis
Claire HARRISON
Validity and Preliminary Norms for a British
English Adaptation of the MacArthur
Communicative Development Inventories:
Toddlers
Exposing Interaction in the Speech Production
System: The Effects of Neighbourhood Density
and Probabilistic Phonotactics on the Speech of
People with Apraxia of Speech and Phonemic
Paraphasia
Sarah Ruth HAYES
Nicola Marie HEAL
Rachel Bethan JONES
The Early Identification of Children with Speech
and / or Language Difficulties: A Survey of UK
NHS speech and Language Therapy and Health
Visiting Management
Re-Evaluating the Children’s Communication
Checklist (CCC): Is It a Reliable Assessment
Tool to Differentiate Children with SemanticPragmatic Impairment From Within a Population
of Children with SLI?
Kate V C KEIGHTLEY
An Intervention Case Study for Phonological
Disorder in a Child with Prader-Willi Syndrome
Carol Anne MECROW
Sub Types of Developmental Dyslexia: An
Investigation into the Role of Speech Impairment
in the Acquisition of Literacy Skills
Aline Victoria MELLOR
Relationships Between Otitis Media with Effusion
(OME) and Pragmatic Abilities
Karen Lorraine MOORE
What Measures Capture Real Life Change in
Adults with Aphasia?
Elizabeth PAPE
An Evaluation of Self-Help Groups for People
who Stammer in Great Britain: What Works and
What do Members Want?
Helen RAFFELL
“Help, I Know Absolutely Nothing”: An
Investigation into Vocal Health and Hygiene
Education Currently Received by Acting Students
at Three UK Universities
Kathryn YOUNG
The Morphological Acquisition and
Comprehension of Various Aspects of English by
Three Chinese-English Bilingual Children
DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 2000
(Academic Year 1999/2000)
NAME:
SINGLE HONOURS
Margaret Anne COATES
TITLE:
Helen HOLMES
Phonetic Variation and Percepts of Accentedness
Ruth Frances HOULTON
Pre-School Inventory of Phonological Awareness:
Validity and influence of Socio-economic status
Grace Elizabeth IVAMY
Factors affecting phonological acquisition: gender, socioeconomic status and birth order
Kate Suzanne JOHNSON
The Phonological Abilities of Adults with Down
Syndrome
Kathryn Ruth JOHNSON
A Comparison of the Phonological Awareness Skills in
Children with Different Speech Disorders
Rachel LITTLE
What does the Cinderella tell us? A comparison of
naming between connected speech and confrontational
naming.
Fiona Jane Denise LYNN
Varying Feedback Schedules on Motor Speech
Acquisition and Retention: A preliminary Investigation
Pauline MEEK
Comparison of the Effects of Variable and Invariant
Practise of an Articulatory Skill
Alison Jane MIDDLETON
Intonation in the Conversation Speech of Tyneside
Adolescents
Jennifer Mary MORGAN
Assessing the Interjudge and Intrajudge Reliability of the
Newcastle Fibrescope Profile
Caroline Kari OLDMAN
Familiarity of speaker on the conversational abilities of
children with high-functioning autism
Jennifer PACKER
Using Conversation Analysis to assess interaction
involving users of Communication Aids
Kleoniki PAPADOPOULOU
Phonological Acquisition of Modern Greek
Elizabeth Anne PARSONS
Child directed speech and the realisation patterns of a
sociolinguistically governed variant: Evidence of (t)
realisation in Tyneside mothers
Heather SEYMOUR
A comparison of tests of children's nonword repetition
abilities
The Reliability of the Preschool Inventory of
Phonological Awareness
Anna TOMKINS
Visual Memory Span Performance of Children with
Specific Language Impairment: Investigating the
Visuopatial Sketchpad
Fiona Mary TOMLINS
Realisation of the voicing contrast in English and French:
a comparative study of monolingual and bilingual
children
JOINT HONOURS
Eugenie Emma BOOTH
Semantic Inhibition Effects in Aphasic and Non-Aphasic
Lexical Access: Conceptual versus Lemma Processing
Rachel KENNEDY
Nonword repitition: not a pure measure of phonological
working memory
Jayne RATCLIFF
A Retrospective Study of Paediatric Referrals
DISSERTATIONS – APRIL 1999
(Academic Year 1998/1999)
NAME
SINGLE HONOURS:
TITLE
Victoria Jane Austin
Speech Apraxia and Ataxic Dysarthria: An
Investigation into Speech Variability
Robert Christopher Barnes
A Study of the Grammatical Development of
Reception - Aged Children in Three Tyneside
Schools
Melissa Elizabeth Dare
Errorless Learning in Anomia Therapy
Tara-Jane Ellis
An Investigation of Speechreading in Profoundly
Prelingually Deaf Adults, Using the Test of Adult
Speechreading (TAS)
Karen Godliman
An Evaluative Study of Speech and Language
Therapy to Promote Feminine Voice and Speech
Characteristics in Two Male-to-Female
Transsexuals
Karen Humfress
Homophone and Pseudohomophone Effects in
Undergraduates with Developmental Dyslexia
Sarah Emily Kittle
The Phonological Awareness Abilities of Preschool
Identical and Fraternal Twins
Clare Elizabeth Marr
The Concurrent Validity of British English
Adaptations of the Long and Short Forms of the
MacArthur Communicative Development
Inventories (Toddlers)
Carol Ann Millar
The Working Memory Capabilities of Children with
a Speech Disorder
Jennifer Helen Powell
The Assessment of Semantic Memory Using
Pictorial and Written Stimuli: A Comparison of
Senile Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type and
Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Helen Jane Rattenbury
A Comparison of Three Types of Voice Quality
Evaluation Techniques: Detecting Voice Quality
Change in Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis after
Thyroplasty Type I
Elaine Robertson
The Effect of List Length on Parent - Report
Measures of Children’s Early Vocabulary
Production
Elizabeth Anne Rowe
An Analysis of the Conversational Profiles of
People at Different Stages of Dementia of the
Alzheimer’s Type: Six Case Studies
Cheryl Shatford
What Progress Can be Expected by Children with
Different Sub-Types of Phonological Disorder
while they are on the Waiting List for Speech
Therapy?
Kathryn Emma Smith
Effects of Lexical Stress on the Spoken Word
Production of Patients with Aphasia
Katharine Jane Thompson
A Comparison of Phonological Legality Awareness
in Bilingual and Monolingual Children
Melanie Joy Wall
An Acoustic Study of Coarticulation in
Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia and Inconsistent
Phonological Disorder
Lucy Clare Warren
“I Forgot That Word” A Case Study of an 8 Year
old with a Word-Finding Disorder. Identifying the
Location of Impairment Using a Model of Single
Word Processing
Emma Louise White
The Role of Speech and Language Therapy in a
Care Home Environment:
An Intervention Study Targeting the Interaction
between Care Home Residents and their
Professional Carers Based on a Conversational
Analysis Approach
JOINT HONOURS:
Joanne Carole Clark
Single Word Reading and Lexical Access: The
Phonologically Mediated Priming Effect and
Differences in Processing Between Open an ClosedClass Words
Emily Kate Johnson
The Relationship between Measures Gained in
Formal Assessment and Occurrence of Naming
Errors and Self Repair in Conversational Speech in
Individuals’ with Aphasia: An Investigation
Shaun Owen
An Experimental Study into the Phonological
Short-Term Memory Deficits in Adult Dyslexic
Students
Georgina Natasha Smith
Do Bilingual Children, Regardless of Whether they
are Successive or Simultaneous Learners, have
Advanced Phonological Awareness Skills?
DISSERTATIONS - APRIL 1998
(Academic Year 1997/98)
SINGLE HONOURS
Judith CLAMP
A Prospective Study of the Literacy Skills of Phonologically
Disordered Children
Lucy CONN
The Effect of Braille Orthography on Blind Children's
Phonological Awareness
George Thomas CRAGGS
POKIT: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Abigail L CURREY
Effects of Lexical Stress on Aphasic Word Repetition
Naomi Laura GREEN
The Impact of Cognitive Neuropsychological Impairments and
Communicative Context on Conversational Repair in Aphasia:
Two Case Studies
Jacqueline HARCOURT
Voice Quality Variability in Bilinguals: An Instrumental and
Perceptual Investigation
Nicola HARDWICK
Does Having a History of a Speech Disorder Always Predict
Later Phonological Awareness and Literacy Problems?: An
Investigation of the Cleft Lip and Palate Population
Alexandra MURDOCH
Comparison of the Loci of Dysfluencies in the Speech of
Bilingual Stutterers: A Pilot Study
Rachel PEARS
Investigating the Spontaneous Speech Differences Occurring
Between: Non-Aphasic and Aphasic Speakers, Claimed
Aphasic Sub-Groups (Broca, Wernicke & Anomic), and
Severities of Aphasia
Alison Clare RUTTER
Conflict Resolution Abilities in Spontaneous, Naturally
Occurring Peer Interactions: A Comparison of Children with
Specific Language Impairment and their Peers with Normal
Language Abilities
Debra Lillian SCOTT
An Investigation into Gender Differences in the Referral Rates
of Pre-School Children with Speech Disorders
Nicola F STEINER
The Use of a Scripted Elicitation Technique in the Assessment
of Non-Speaking Children with Physical Disabilities
Laura K THOMPSON
The Nature of Speech Disorder in Down Syndrome Children
Heather WELLS
Short-term Memory and Sentence Processing: A Comparison of
Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Dementia of the Alzheimer
Type
Jeannie L WILLIAMSON
A Longitudinal Investigation into the Lexical and Syntactic
Development of Language Delayed and Normally Developing
Children at Two and Three Years of Age
Beverly WILSON
Evaluating the Efficacy of Pre-School Early Intervention by a
Multi Disciplinary Team
JOINT HONOURS
Gillian ARDEN
Using the Natural Environment to Enhance the Functional
Communication of Young Persons with Profound and Multiple
Learning Disabilities in Classroom Activities
Annarella CLAY
An Observational Study of the Differences in Patterns of Types
and Loci of Stuttering in Monolingual Speakers of the German
and English Languages
Rachel JONES
Picture Book Reading with Twins in Dyadic and Triadic
Situations
Phoebe SIMPSON
An Investigation of Semantic Factors in Aphasic Naming
Lorna TYACK
Developmental Dyslexia in the Student Population: The Norms
for Literacy Attainment and Patterns of Ability
Sheila WIGHT
The Interaction between Speech and Gesture in Aphasic
Subjects
Hannah YATES
Quantifying the Informativeness and Efficiency of Aphasic
Speech: A Comparison and Evaluation of Two Methodologies