Professor
Sue Roulstone, from the University
of the West of England, Bristol, UK is visiting Australia for a few weeks. She is an invited keynote speaker at the Speech Pathology Australia national conference. In addition, she is working with members of the Sound Start Study team (Sue is a co-investigator on the grant) and spending time at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
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| Sue and Sharynne enjoying Bathurst's autumnal weather |
Today, Thursday 8th May, Sue presented a seminar to speech pathologists from across the Central West of New South Wales. The audience had traveled for hours, coming from places including Parkes, Mudgee, Orange, Dubbo, Lithgow, Canowindra, and Cowra. Here is the title, abstract, and her biography:
Mapping research onto practice with preschool children with
primary speech and language impairments
The session will provide an opportunity to compare speech-language
pathology practice in Australia
with that identified in the Child Talk research programme in England. The
focus of Child Talk is on speech pathology-led interventions for preschool
children with PSLI, examining the research evidence as it pertains to current
practice, with the aim of developing an evidence-based framework. The session
will present key findings from the research programme including a typology of
therapy and the perspectives of children and parents on interventions.
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| Professor Sue Roulstone with speech pathologists from the Central West |
Biography
Sue Roulstone is Emeritus
Professor of Speech & Language Therapy at the University of the West of
England, Bristol
and a co-Dirctor of the Bristol Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit.
Sue has worked as a speech and language therapist, a manager, a researcher and
an educator and was Chair of the UK Royal College of Speech & Language
Therapists from 2006-2009. Her research interests include child and family perspectives, professional judgement
and evaluation of speech and language therapy. She was a core member of the
national research programme commissioned by the UK government following the
Bercow Review of Services for children and young people with speech, language
and communication needs (the Better Communication Research Programme) and is
currently completing work on a large research programme funded by the National
Institute of Health Research to develop an evidence-based framework of
interventions for preschool children.
