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Maria Logue-Kennedy

Lecturer
Tel:  353-91-495023
Email:  maria.loguekennedynuigalway.ie

Background and Qualifications

A native of Co. Derry, Maria is a graduate of the University of Liverpool, University of Manchester and of Trinity College Dublin. She holds the degrees of B.Ed. and M.Ed in education, audiology and hearing impairment with higher diplomas in education of the deaf and counselling.  She has completed a postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning at NUI Galway.

Maria's initial career post was as a teacher of the deaf, working first in a large school for the deaf in Liverpool before moving on to integrating deaf children into mainstream education in Leicestershire, England.  She then spent over two years with Voluntary Services Overseas working on education of the deaf on the island of Bali, Indonesia.

Prior to joining the NUI team in Galway, Maria had more than twenty years of clinical experience as a Senior Audiological Scientist within the former National Rehabilitation Board.  She was responsible for the provision of paediatric audiology services within several health board areas, covering clinics from as far north as Buncrana to as far south as Limerick and inland to Mullingar, Athlone and Roscommon.  She provided comprehensive audiological assessment, diagnosis and management of the disability of hearing impairment for all infants, children and adults with special needs referred within the health service spanning three regional health boards.

She is a member of the Irish Society of Audiology and the British Society of Audiology and an accredited member of IACP (Irish Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists).

Teaching Experience

Throughout her years of clinical practice Maria initiated, planned and delivered in-service programmes for health care students and professionals, within the National Health Service and within the National Rehabilitation Board.

1985 - 2000	Planned and delivered in-service training programmes on Screening/Hearing Impairment for Public Health Nurses and Area Medical Officers in four Health Boards.
1994 - 1995	Initiated, planned and delivered information programmes on cochlear implant for parents of deaf children.
1993	Presented lecture and chaired discussion on "Care of the deaf child and family within audiology service" to European delegates of Helios II Deafness in Europe group.
1992	Planned and delivered in-service training on "Basic Counselling Skills" for colleagues and staff within the Rehabilitation Board.
1986 - 1989	Compiled and delivered short study programmes on deafness for third and fourth year medical students, Regional Hospital, Galway.
1986	Compiled, participated and edited video on Deafness, Screening and Assessments, Western Health Board, Ireland.

Current Teaching Responsibilities

Maria commenced work as a part time lecturer on the Speech and Language Therapy programme at NUI Galway in April 2003, prior to the first intake of students in September of that year.  She was thus involved in the design and planning of the programme curriculum from the beginning.

Within the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy she has responsibility for the following modules:

• Introduction to Audiology
• Practice Education 1
• Cognitive and Hearing Impairment

The modules she contributes to are:

• Communication and Counselling Skills
• Professional Studies
• Communication Impairments 1 and 2

In addition to the above teaching responsibilities Maria has responsibility for the design and delivery of a two day course on Hearing Screening in Infancy and Childhood to the Diploma in Public Health students in the Discipline of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway.

She has initiated, planned and delivered a two day in-service course on Aspects of Audiology to existing Speech and Language Therapists in the Health Service. She has initiated, planned and delivered a short training programme on the Support and Management of the Adult with Hearing Impairment to nursing and support staff of people with learning disabilities.  She contributes to the undergraduate programme for Occupational Therapists by providing lectures on hearing impairment and management of the client with impaired hearing.

Publications

During her years of clinical practice she has contributed and advised on several health board reports and strategies.  From 1985-2001, in collaboration with colleagues in Ireland, designed and authored audiology information booklets and leaflets on various aspects of audiology service for parents, schools and the general public.

In the period of 1993-1996 she was a delegate in thematic group 5 of the Functional Rehabilitation Sector on Deafness in Europe programme funded by The European Commission.  This involved visits, workshops and discussion groups in all of the participating European countries over a three year period concluding with the production of a recommendations booklet in English and French for the HELIOS Programme, Deafness in Europe.

Logue-Kennedy, M., Lyons, R., Carroll, C., Dignan, E., O'Hagan, L. & Byrne, M. (2011). Service for children with (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders in the Republic of Ireland: current and future service provision. American Journal of Audiology, Vol. 20, 9-18. 

Lyons, R., Logue-Kennedy, M., O’Shaughnessy, C., Dignan, E., O’Hagan, L. & Dewitt, P. (2009). Current and future service provision for children with auditory processing disorder (APD) in Ireland. Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Conference Proceedings.

Logue-Kennedy, M., O’Shaughnessy, C., Lyons, R., Dignan, E., O’Hagan, L. & Dewitt, P. (2009). Service provision for children with central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) in Ireland. IALP Conference Proceedings, Cairo, Egypt.

Logue-Kennedy, M. (2008). APD Ireland, in British Society of Audiology Bulletin. April Issue.

Logue-Kennedy, M., Lyons, R., O’Shaughnessy, C., Dewitt, P., Dignan, E., O’Hagan, L. (2008). Collaboration in addressing current and future service provision for auditory processing disorder (APD) for children in Ireland , Physical Therapy Reviews, 13.2.

Poster Presentations

Browne, I; Logue-Kennedy, M. (2009). Adult Acquired hearing loss and subsequent cochlear implantation: A case study of one person’s journey. Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapy (IASLT) Annual Conference, Galway, October 2009.

Logue-Kennedy, M., Lyons, R., O’Shaughnessy, C., Dewitt, P., Dignan, E., O’Hagan, L. (2008). Current and future service provision for Auditory processing disorder for children in Ireland. Rehabilitation and Therapy Research Society 4^th Annual Conference, Dublin. Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

Logue-Kennedy, M., Lyons, R., O’Shaughnessy, C., Dewitt, P., Dignan, E., O’Hagan, L. (2008). Auditory processing disorder for children. British Academy of Audiology Annual Conference, Liverpool UK .

O’Shaughnessy, C., Lyons, R., McMenamin, R., O’Malley, M.P., Antonijevic-Eilliot, S., Logue-Kennedy, M., & Loftus, L. (2008) . Re-designing a curriculum to achieve integration and reflect the values of student and client centredness: The NUI Galway Speech and Language Therapy Team’s experience. National Academy for Integration of Research and Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL), Second Annual Conference in Waterford Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

Maria completed a research project on self-esteem and profoundly deaf adolescents as part of her masters qualifications.

Maria initiated the setting up of a professional interest group on Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) in 2005.  The CAPD Ireland Group together with the HSE launched a report entitled Current and future service provision for children with auditory processing disorder (APD) in Ireland in November 2008.  The CAPD Ireland continues to work towards the implementation of the recommendations of this report.

Other Current Research Interests are:

• Hearing screening for adults with Downs Syndrome
• Childhood hearing screening in Ireland including Neonatal Screening
• Rehabilitation and hearing aid use for people with acquired hearing loss
• Support and assistance of the elderly client with acquired hearing loss

 

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