• Modifying the consistency of food and fluids for swallowing difficulties 

  WALSHE, MARGARET (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2014)
• Phonetic feature extraction for context-sensitive glottal source processing 

  YANUSHEVSKAYA, IRENA (2014)

  The effectiveness of glottal source analysis is known to be dependent on the phonetic properties of its concomitant supraglottal features. Phonetic classes like nasals and fricatives are particularly problematic. Their ...
• Oral Stimulation Techniques In Preterm Infants - International Research Challenges 

  WALSHE, MARGARET (Elsevier, 2013-04)

  There has been a significant increase in the survival of preterm infants in recent years. These infants often face difficulty acquiring the complex set of skills required for exclusive oral feeding due to a multiplicity ...
• Metalinguistic knowledge in instructed second language acquisition: A theoretical model and its application in computer-mediated communication 

  O'ROURKE, BREFFNI (University of Dublin, Trinity CollegeTrinity College Dublin, 2003)

  This thesis has three interrelated aims: (1) to elaborate a model of instructed second language acquisition (SLA) that brings together insights from cognitive research in second language acquisition and from the developmental ...
• The Dysarthria Impact Profile: A preliminary French experience with Parkinson's disease. 

  WALSHE, MARGARET (2013)

  his preliminary study aimed to adapt the Dysarthria Impact Profile (DIP) in French and to confirm its relevance for the assessment of the psychosocial impact of dysarthria in Parkinson?s disease (PD). The DIP scale was ...
• Processing 'yup!' and other short utterances in interactive speech 

  CAMPBELL, NICK (IEEE, 2011)

  The detection of short utterances in conversational or interactive speech is essential to the proper processing of meaning in spoken interaction. Short, simple utterances are extremely common, and because of their highly ...
• Prosodic Synchrony in Co-operative Task-based Dialogues: A Measure of Agreement and Disagreement 

  VAUGHAN, BRIAN (International Speech Communication Association, 2011-08)

  Prosodic synchrony has been reported to be an important as- pect of conversational dyads. In this paper, synchrony in four different dyads is examined. A Time Aligned Moving Aver- age (TAMA) procedure is used to temporally ...
• Witnessing Stories: Definitional Ceremonies in Narrative Therapy with Adults who Stutter 

  LEAHY, MARGARET M (2012)

  Background: Narrative therapy (White & Epston, 1990) was developed as an approach to counselling, as a response to the power relations that influence people's lives. Its use with people who stutter has been documented. A ...
• Gender in Irish between continuity and change 

  FRENDA, ALESSIO SALVATORE (2011)

  The gender system of Irish appears to have undergone a process of simplification: traditionally depending on both formal and semantic assignment rules, agreement in contemporary spoken Irish is still rather conservative ...
• On the use of multimodal cues for the prediction of involvement in spontaneous conversation 

  OERTEL GEN BIERBACH, CATHARINE (2011)

  Quantifying the degree of involvement of a group of participants in a conversation is a task which humans accomplish every day, but it is something that, as of yet, machines are unable to do. In this study we first investigate ...
• Student perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of problem based learning. 

  MC TIERNAN, KATHLEEN (Department of Education, 2004)

  A higher education puts a woman in control of herself and that lasts a lifetime. According to DeMott (1990), the resource most widely used as a tool for upward mobility is education. However, for many women, the opportunity ...
• Examining students' clinical skills: Assessment of the 'unseen' client in a speech and language therapy clinic 

  MC TIERNAN, KATHLEEN; WALSH, IRENE PATRICIA; LEAHY, MARGARET M (AISHE, 2007)

  Towards the end of their undergraduate careers, speech and language therapy stu- dents are expected to have developed an advanced level of clinical expertise, in the assessment, diagnosis and management of a wide range of ...
• The 'triple jump' assessment in problem based learning: An evaluative method used in the appraisal of both knowledge acquisition and problem solving skills 

  MC TIERNAN, KATHLEEN; SMITH, MARTINE MARY; WALSH, IRENE PATRICIA (AISHE, 2007)

  Learning and evaluation are inextricably linked, and students who are active participants in their own learning should be active participants in the assessment of their acquired knowledge (Rangachari, 2002). The triple ...
• Language learner autonomy and the European Language Portfolio: two L2 English examples 

  LITTLE, DAVID GEORGE (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

  This article argues that the Council of Europe's European Language Portfolio is capable of supporting the implementation of language learner autonomy on a large scale. It begins by explaining what the author understands ...
• EDUCATION OF EUROPEAN FLUENCY SPECIALISTS The European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders (ECSF) 

  LEAHY, MARGARET M (2011)

  The European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders (ECSF) project consists of one-year post-qualification fluency specialization training and a harmonized graduate fluency program. It was developed by eight European ...
• Arrah, like, you know: The dynamics of discourse marking in ICE-Ireland. 

  KALLEN, JEFFREY LEO (2006)

  For over 400 years, dramatists, novelists, and other writers seeking to depict Irish characters have relied in part on words and phrases taken to be indexical of Irishness when representing the conversational functions ...
• Language learner autonomy: Myth, magic or miracle? 

  CARSON, LORNA ELIZABETH (2010)

  The shift in emphasis away from the processes involved in teaching languages towards the processes involved in learning languages in formal educational contexts has brought about one of the most remarkable changes to ...
• Towards Earlier and Improved Detection of Oropharyngeal Swallowing Disorders in the Acute Care Setting 

  Farrell, Zelda Maria (Trinity College Dublin. Department of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, 2010-06-15)

  Oropharyngeal swallowing disorders (OPSD) leading to aspiration and reduced swallow efficiency are common in the acute care setting. Patients presenting with swallow disorders are at a significant risk of developing medical ...
• An Audio-Visual Approach to Measuring Discourse Synchrony in Multimodal Conversation Data 

  CAMPBELL, NICK (ISCA, 2009)

  This paper describes recent work on the automatic extraction of visual and audio parameters relating to the detection of synchrony in discourse, and to the modelling of active listening for advanced speech technology. ...
• Language Resources of the Future (a speech-based position paper) 

  CAMPBELL, NICK (2010)

  Current speech technology is well capable of processing the mappings between speech and text, but the challenge at the current time is to model the information flow in interactive speech, where propositional content is ...

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