October 28, 2011

Listening to children and young people with speech language and communication needs

Abigail Beverly's artwork that is featured on the cover
This week Prof Sue Roulstone (University of West of England) and I have been finalizing page proofs for our new edited book titled Listening to children and young people with speech language and communication needs.
This book profiles the voice of the children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. Throughout the book, many examples of children’s opinions and thoughts are included, delivered via a range of frontiers, including art, photographs, and quotes.
Fifty people have contributed chapters to this book providing insights from speech and language therapists, social workers, psychologists, teachers, researchers, advocates, parents, and young people with speech, language and communication needs.More details can be found here.
Here are the contents and authors:

Foreword – Rt Hon John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons
PART I. ADVOCATES’ VIEWS
Chapter 1. A duty to listen
Lord David John Ramsbotham
Chapter 2. Listen up!
Abigail Beverly
Chapter 3. The bridge between the world of the disabled and the world of the fully functioning
Andrea Kaye
Chapter 4. Working in partnership: Therapists, children and families
Hazel Roddam
Chapter 5. Tuning into children with speech and language impairment
Linda Lascelles
Chapter 6. Social work and communication with children with speech, language and communication needs
Tillie Curran

PART II. ISSUES
Chapter 7. Listening to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs: Who, why and how?
Sharynne McLeod
Chapter 8. Children’s voice and perspectives: The struggle for recognition, meaning and effectiveness
Barry Percy-Smith
Chapter 9. The importance of silence when hearing the views of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
Ann Lewis
Chapter 10. Ethics, consent and assent when listening to children with speech, language and communication needs
Rosalind Merrick
Chapter 11. Issues and assumptions of participatory research with children with speech, language and communication needs
Clodagh Miskelly
Chapter 12. Independent advocacy and listening to children with speech, language and communication needs
Jane Dalrymple
Chapter 13. Listening to proxies for children with speech, language and communication needs.
Juliet Goldbart and Julie Marshall
Chapter 14. Listening to adolescents with speech, language and communication needs who are in contact with the youth justice system
Pamela C. Snow, Dixie D. Sanger and Karen Bryan
Chapter 15. Exploring identity of children with speech, language and communication needs by listening to children's narratives
Rena Lyons
Chapter 16. Listening to children with speech, language and communication needs through arts-based methods
Jane Coad and Helen Hambly
Chapter 17. Cognitive and linguistic factors in the interview process
Julie E. Dockrell and Geoff Lindsay

PART III. EXAMPLES
Chapter 18. Listening to individuals with language impairment: What one can learn in 30 years
Bonnie Brinton and Martin Fujiki
Chapter 19. The Stammering Information Programme: Listening to young people who stammer
Ali Berquez, Elaine Kelman and Frances Cook
Chapter 20. “Give me time and I’ll tell you”: Using ethnography to investigate aspects of identity with teenagers who use alternative and augmentative methods of communication (AAC)
Mary Wickenden
Chapter 21. Listening to 4- to 5-year-old children with speech impairment using drawings, interviews and questionnaires
Sharynne McLeod, Jane McCormack, Lindy McAllister, Linda J. Harrison and Erin L. Holliday
Chapter 22. Listening to children with cleft lip and palate in Germany
Sandra Neumann
Chapter 23. “I can’t say words much”: Listening to school-aged children’s experiences of speech impairment
Graham Daniel and Sharynne McLeod
Chapter 24. Listening to adolescents after traumatic brain injury
Lucie Shanahan, Lindy McAlister and Michael Curtin
Chapter 25. Listening to the post-16 transition experiences of young people with specific language impairment
Catherine Carroll and Julie Dockrell
Chapter 26. Listening to children and young people talk about their desired outcomes
Helen Hambly, Jane Coad, Geoff Lindsay and Sue Roulstone
Chapter 27. “Everything is easier ‘cos they get it...”: Listening to young people’s views about people who work with them
Wendy Lee
Chapter 28. Designing a measure to explore the quality of life for children with speech, language and communication needs
Chris Markham
Chapter 29. Listening to infants about what life is like in childcare: A mosaic approach
Frances Press, Ben S. Bradley, Joy Goodfellow, Linda J. Harrison, Sharynne McLeod, Jennifer Sumsion, Sheena Elwick and Tina Stratigos
Chapter 30. Listening to the views of children in longitudinal population-based studies
Linda J. Harrison and Jane McCormack
Chapter 31. Finding ways to listen to young people in youth groups: The Afasic Youth Project 
Abigail Beverly and Clare Davies-Jones
Chapter 32. Making a film as a means of listening to young people
Sue Roulstone, Clodagh Miskelly and Robbie Simons
Chapter 33. Listening to siblings of children with speech, language and communication needs
Jacqueline Barr
Chapter 34. Listening to improve services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
Sue Roulstone and Sharynne McLeod