Celebrating Our Profession
Leading, Exploring, Discovering
It all began in 1969 at the Dublin College of Speech Therapy. We look forward to celebrating 50 years of educating Speech and Language Therapists in Ireland at the conference.
The journey of SLT and the IASLT
At the 2019 Biennial IASLT Conference, we will once again be showcasing the research carried out by Irish and international SLTs
At the IASLT Biennial Conference in May, we plan to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of Speech Therapy (later Speech and Language Therapy) education in Ireland. Over the two days of the Conference, there will be an exhibition of memorabilia and photographs, interactive items and surprises! So keep sending in your pieces of history, however recent, the celebration belongs to everyone.
Amongst the speakers on the afternoon of May 16th, Sr. Marie De Montfort, the first Director of the course will tell her fascinating story. Ms. Lilly Cheng, President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics will also attend.
The evening will end with a reception, which we hope will be attended by graduates from every one of the fifty years.
So, hunt down all those interesting nuggets and send them in. We are particularly keen to have a copy of each graduate class, but want everything else too.
See you there!
Sr. Marie De Montfort
Dorothy Bishop is a psychologist who holds a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where she heads an ERC-funded programme of research into cerebral lateralisation for language. She is a supernumerary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
David Howard is a speech and language therapist and cognitive neuropsychologist. He has been a research professor at Newcastle University since 1996. His research has been on language processing in people with normal language and those with language disorders, with a particular focus on aphasia and aphasia therapy. He is an author of clinical tests in a variety of languages, has co-authored 10 books and more than 120 papers.
Gary has made it his mission to drive Patient Advocacy forward so that in all medical consultations the Patient is always placed first; is always considered the expert in whatever condition is diagnosed.
Cristina McKean is a speech and language therapist, senior lecturer and researcher based at Newcastle University, UK. She is Honorary Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Adjunct Fellow at the Menzies Institute Griffith University. Her research is driven and informed by her many years as a practitioner.
Adam Harris is a 24 year old social entrepreneur, Autism advocate and Founder-CEO of AsIAm.ie, an organisation committed to building a more Autism-friendly society in Ireland. Adam established AsIAm.ie based on his own experiences of growing up with Aspergers Syndrome, a condition on the Autism Spectrum.
Áine Flynn holds a law degree and M.Litt. from Trinity College Dublin. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1999 and from 2012-2017 was a senior partner in KOD Lyons, a firm specialising in public interest law, including disability and equality law. She was on the panel of legal representatives of the Mental Health Commission and the Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board from their inception in 2006 and also represented Wards of Court instructed by the General Solicitor.
Yvonne Lynch is a Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University working on the NIHR funded I-ASC study. Yvonne is a speech-language therapist by profession and has a long-standing passion for the field of AAC. She has many years’ experience working and managing services for people who use AAC. Her PhD awarded by Trinity College Dublin explored intervention methods in AAC with a particular focus on graphic symbol knowledge.
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| Day 1 - Thursday 16th May | ||||
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| 08:15 | Registration & Breakfast | |||
| Nutricia Suite | ||||
| 09:00 | Vickie Kirkpatrick – IASLT Chairperson – Opening Address | |||
| 09:15 | Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Bishop | |||
| Speciality Seminars | ||||
| Nutricia Suite Developmental Communication | Fresnius Kabi Suite Feeding, Eating, Drinking and Swallowing | Wiltshire Farm Foods Suite Acquired Communication Disorders | ||
| 10:15 | Guest Speaker: Cristina McKean | Guest Speaker: Zelda Greene | Guest Speaker: Nicole Muller | |
| 10:45 | O'Toole Longitudinal Study of Expressive Language and Speech of Twins at 3 and 5 years: Outgrowing a Twinning Effect | Flynn Accuracy in Adult Videofluoroscopy Analysis | Dooley Management of Cognitive Communication Difficulties in Dementia: A Cross Sessional Survey of Speech and Language Therapists in Ireland | |
| 11:00 | Break Kindly Sponsored by Nutricia | |||
| 11:30 | Frizelle Assessing Children’s Understanding of Complex Syntax: A Comparison of Two Methods | O’Brien Trends in Gastrostomy Insertion and Post-treatment Tube Dependence in Head Neck Cancer Patients at Beaumont Hospital | Muller Dementia Among Multilinguals: Why Does Language Choice Matter? | |
| 11:45 | Wright The Prevalence and Predictors of Transient Versus Persistent Speech and Language Difficulties at Ages 3 and 5 in Ireland | Kenny Dysphagia in Cancers Outside the Head, Neck and Upper Gastrointestinal Tract: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Impact | Claffey Remember to Listen – Hearing the Voice of the Person with Dementia in the Acute Hospital Setting | 12:00 | Bowles Predicting Expressive Vocabulary Change in Young Children Growing Up in Ireland | Keane Establishing Consensus on the Natures of Risk and Comfort Feeding in Stroke and Geriatric Healthcare | Staveley ‘Compassion in Care’: An Education Series on Person-Centred Communication Skills in Residential Care " |
| 12:15 | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion | |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |||
| Nutricia Suite | ||||
| 1:45 | Invited Speaker: Áine Flynn | |||
| Speciality Seminars | ||||
| Nutricia Suite Acquired Communication Disorders | Fresnius Kabi Suite Developmental Communication | Wiltshire Farm Foods Suite SLT: Past and Future | ||
| 2:15 | Molloy Diagnosis of Acquired Apraxia of Speech: How Do Research and Practice Compare? | O’Shea Happy Talk: How Targeted Universal Models of Care Can Work to Engage Parents Living in Disadvantage | Jagoe Communication Disability and the Sustainable Development Goals; A Narrative Review with Reflection on the Implications for Irish Speech and Language Therapists | |
| 2:30 | McMenamin Using Participatory Research to Involve People with Aphasia as Co-researchers in the Research Process: An analysis of Co-researchers’ Experiences | McCluskey Measuring the Sensitivity of a Screening Tool for Teacher Identification of Children at Risk of Speech, Language and/or Communication difficulties in the Primary School Context | Greene The Evolution of Speech and Language Therapy in our Lady’s Children’s Hospital since 1962: Embracing Complexity, Diversity and Change | |
| 2:45 | Break Kindly Sponsored by Wiltshire Farm Foods | |||
| 3:00 | Kelly Developing a Website for People with Aphasia, in Collaboration with People with Aphasia. | O’Neill Parental Experience of Speech and Language Therapy Services for Children with Developmental Communication Disorders using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis | O’ Dwyer Speech and Language Therapy in Ireland – Female Stronghold or Glass Box: An Update 25 Years On | |
| 3:15 | McGreevy Making Galway an Aphasia-Friendly City Student Presentation | Quigley ‘Talk Time’ Developing Language Enrichment Support Material for the Toolkit of the new Primary Language Curriculum | Murphy Information Sharing Session on the “In Schools Project” | |
| 3:30 | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion | |
| Nutricia Suite | ||||
| 4:00 | Guest Speaker: Adam Harris | |||
| 4:30 | IASLT AGM | |||
| 6:00 | “Meet and Mingle” Including a Celebration of 50 years of Speech and Language Therapy Training in Ireland | |||
| Day 2 - Friday 17th May | |||
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| Nutricia Suite | |||
| 09:00 | Keynote Speaker: David Howard | ||
| Speciality Seminars | |||
| Nutricia Suite Feeding, Eating, Drinking and Swallowing | Fresnius Kabi Suite Intellectual Disability and AAC | Wiltshire Farm Foods Suite Fluency, Mental Health and Wellbeing | |
| 10:00 | Guest Speaker: Margaret Walshe | Guest Speaker: Yvonne Lynch | Guest Speaker: Irene Walsh |
| 10:30 | Bonass What is the Experience of Non-Oral Feeding for the Family Caregivers of People Living with Dysphagia? A Meta-Ethnography of Studies Student Presentation | O’ Toole What is the Evidence for Parent-Mediated Interventions? Findings from a Cochrane Systematic Review for Young Children with Down syndrome | Garvey Supporting Ourselves in Order to Support Others: Self-Care and Resilience for Speech and Language Therapists |
| 10:45 | Break Kindly Sponsored by Nutricia | ||
| 11:15 | Farrell Reducing Door to Swallow Screening Time in Beaumont Hospital | O’ Donoghue The Role of Peers in Developing Communication Skills in Minimally Verbal Autistic Children | Connery Effectiveness of Stuttering Intervention on Communication and Psychosocial Functioning in Adults who Stutter; A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials |
| 11:30 | Robinson Improving Medication Administration for Patients with Dysphagia | Cox The Use of Emergent Technologies in Locked-In Syndrome: Use of the Emego Switch | O’ Dwyer The Role of Narratives in the Development of Stuttering |
| 11:45 | Keohane Aspirations: Using Clinical Care Pathways to Guide Dysphagia Management in an Adult Acute Population | Lee Speech Disorders in Children with Spina Bifida | O’Brien Exploring the Lived Experience of Aphasia: The Caregivers’ Perspective Student Presentation |
| 12:00 | Grealy Knowledge of Final Year Medical Students about Dysphagia Student Presentation | Frizelle The Understanding of Complex Syntax in Children with Down syndrome | Breen Not Just ‘lived’ but Living Experiences of Challenges to Identity and Communication in Adult-Diagnosed ASD and ADHD |
| 12:15 | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion |
| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| Nutricia Suite | |||
| 1:50 | Glennon Insurance Suite | ||
| 2:00 | Guest Speaker: Jois Stansfield | ||
| Speciality Seminars | |||
| Nutricia Suite Acquired Communication Disorders | Fresnius Kabi Suite Autism Spectrum Disorder | Wiltshire Farm Foods Suite Developmental Communication and Bilingualism | |
| 2:30 | Kearns Self-administered aphasia rehabilitation targeting auditory comprehension: a feasibility study | Gorman Empowering or Isolating? Mothers’ Perceptions of Their Role in Parent Mediated Interventions for Children with ASD | Lyons Translating Research into Practice Through an Academic/Clinical Alliance: A Pilot Study on Assessment and Diagnosis of Multilingual Children |
| 2:45 | Conroy Anomia in People with Rapidly Evolving Severe Relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Both Word Retrieval Inaccuracy and Delay are Common Symptoms | McMahon The Effect of Video Modelling as an Intervention Tool to Develop Pretend Play Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Student Presentation | Cotter Mother-Child Conversations about Cleft Lip/Palate |
| 3:00 | Break Kindly Sponsored by Fresnuis Kabi | ||
| 3:15 | Franklin Efficacy Studies in Aphasia Research: The AsPIRE Project | Gilmartin Exploring the Living Experience of Fathers Rasing Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A Comprehensive Literature Review | Gallagher Establishing principles of best collaborative practice when working with children in school with developmental language disorders: A Delphi survey |
| 3:30 | Doyle The Collaborative Development of an Irish Message Banking Pathway | Quarry Developmental Transitioning in Education: Does the Communication Ability of Adolescents on the Autistic Spectrum Impact Experiences? | Sweeney Parent-Led Articulation Therapy – A trial of Parent Delivered Intervention Supported by Telemedicine |
| 3:45 | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion | Panel Discussion |
| Nutricia Suite | |||
| 4:00 | Closing Guest Speaker: Gary Boyle | ||
| 4:30 | Prize Giving | ||
| 4:45 | Close of Conference 2019 | ||
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