student / graduate achievements 

Awards

Pictured at the recent NUI Galway Awards Day, Saturday, 5th February, 2011 was (l-r): Professor Nollaig Mac Congáil, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway; Laura Loftus, Speech and Language Therapy Discipline, NUI Galway; Niamh Bannon, Portarlington, Co. Laois, Winner of the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT) Prize, 2009-10; NUI Galway President, Dr James J. Browne; and Dr Fidelma Dunne, Head of the School of Medicine, NUI Galway.

Laura Tobin, a 2011 graduate was awarded first prize in the Dr. Henry Hutchinson Awards in 2011.  http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2011/november2011/nui-galway-features-prominently-at-annual-nui-awards-ceremony-.html

Dissemination of Research
Our students have presented their work at national and international conferences.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Publications

O'Loughlin, C., Carroll, C. & Caulfield, M. (2010/2011). Exploring Parents' Experiences of an Early Intervention Programme for Children with Down Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Vol. 18, 57-75.

Healy, J., Lyons, R., O'Malley, M.P. & Antonijevic, S. (2010). Preparing health care workers for a bilingual and multicultural context: learning from an undergraduate speech and language therapy programme.  Translocations, 6 (1) ( www.translocations.ie/volume_6_issue_1/index.shtml)

Conference Oral Presentations

Brennan, S., Lyons, R. & Carroll, C. (2012). A qualitative exploration into the value of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in understanding parental perspectives regarding the everyday lives of children with Down Syndrome, at the Down Syndrome Ireland Special Interest Group Study Day, Athlone, November.

Tobin, L. and Lyons, R. (2011). An investigation of speech and language therapy students' experiences of pseudo-stuttering.  IASLT Biennial Conference, Dublin, November 2011.   

Stack, A. & Lyons, R. (2010). Confidence of students working with people who stutter. European Symposium on Fluency Disorders. Antwerp, Belgium, April 2010 (accepted but could not attend because of volcanic ash)

Antonijevic, S., Knight, C., Dring, G., Lynch, D., Murphy, J., Boyle, M. & Elliott, M.A. (2009). Noise exclusion in visual and auditory modalities in children with language disorder. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C., & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Keohane, S., Skehan, C. & Carroll, C. (2009). Perceptions of parents and speech and language therapists on mainstream primary education. 10^th World Down Syndrome Congress Proceedings, Dublin City University, August 2009.

Salley, C. & Carroll, C. (2009). The use of Lamh and children with Down syndrome: Parents’ views. 10^th World Down Syndrome Congress Proceedings, Dublin City University, August 2009.

Poster Presentations

Dempsey, T., Carroll, C. & Lyons, R. (2012). A retrospective review of paediatric referrals: outcomes of screening for cases designated as 'no further action' in a community care, speech and language therapy clinic, at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist Conference - Driving transformation using evidence-based practice, Manchester, September 2012.

O'Loughlin, C., Carroll, C. & Caulfield, M. (2011). 'Sowing the Seeds': Exploring parents' experiences of an early intervention programme for children with Downs Syndrome, at the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapy Biennial Conference, Dublin, November 2011. 

Leavy, D., Leonard, R. & McMenamin, R. (2011). The relationship between amateur singers' knowledge of voice care and perceptions of vocal health, at the Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapy Biennial Conference, Dublin, November 2011. 

Ryan, A., & Logue-Kennedy, M. (2010). Exploration of Primary School Teachers’ Awareness and Knowledge of (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder in the Republic of Ireland. British Academy of Audiology Annual Conference, Edinburgh UK .

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.

McMenamin, R ., Stack, A., Mc Dermott, P., Plunkett, AM, Ní Chiardha, R. (2009). “Civic Awareness – how important is it for healthcare graduates?”. Campus Engage International Conference Dublin.

McMenamin, R., Ward, O., Skehan, C., Keegan, S., Moore, S. & Hanmore, C. (2009). “Students & Academic Staffs’ Perceptions of the Value of Service Learning in the Undergraduate Curriculum“. Campus Engage International Conference Dublin.

McMenamin, R., Keohane, S., Mc Loughlin, A., Gill, C. & Montague, O. (2009). “What people with aphasia and their caregivers think about the Conversation Partner Programme”. Campus Engage International Conference Dublin.

Crehan, S. & McMenamin, R. (2009). “Teachers’ Professional Voice Use: Voice Care Knowledge, Voice Complaints and Voice Care Behaviours”. Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists Biennial Conference 22^nd- 23^rd October 2009, Galway.

O’Neill, J. & McMenamin, R. (2009). “A qualitative study of Irish Professional Soccer Managers with voice use in their everyday life”. Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists Biennial Conference 22^nd-23^rd October 2009, Galway.

Mc Manus, M., Crehan, S., Duggan, A., Jones, C. & McMenamin, R. (2009). “How will Service Learning Impact your role as an SLT in training on clinical placement?”. Campus Engage International Conference Dublin.

Murphy, C., Lyons, R. & Drinnan, M. (2009). The voice and its care: a comparison of student teachers and other university students, at the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist Scientific Conference – Partners in progress: Spreading the word, London, March 2009.

Antonijevic, S. and Galligan, O. (2008). Reliance upon L1 while acquiring L2 by attending education through L2. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October 2008.

Antonijevic, S., O’Malley, M.P., Mulhall, C. and Hayes, D. (2008). Intrusion of words and syntactic structures in production of L1 and L2 narratives in different age groups. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October, 2008.

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Conference Proceedings

Antonijevic, S. and Berthaud, S. (2009). Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C. & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Poster Presentations

Muckley, S.A. and Antonijevic, S. (2011). Language performance in 3-6 year old native Irish speaking bilingual children in a narrative task. Poster to be presented at the 12th International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, July 2011. 

Antonijevic, S. and Muckley, S.A. (2010). Language performance in 5 and 6 year old Irish speaking children in a narrative task. Poster presented at BiSLI COST Action IS0804 Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment. Cyprus, October 2010.

Muckley, S.A. and Antonijevic, S. (2010). Narrative as a means of examining language production in L1 Irish speaking bilingual children. Presented at a national meeting of speech and language therapists undertaking research with Irish language speaking children, Galway, July 2010.

Antonijevic, S. and Berthaud, S. (2009). Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language. Fechner Day, International Society for Psychophysics: 25th Annual Meeting, Galway, Ireland, October 2009.

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2008). Syntactic frames: production and translation for English and French speakers. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October 2008.

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