Staff areas of interest

  Prof. Nicole Müller

• Communication abilities in the presence of neurodegeneration (e.g. Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease) or brain injury (aphasia, TBI); ageing-related disorders of communication and cognition
• Clinical Linguistics, and applications of Systemic Functional Linguistics to clinical contexts
•  Distributed approaches to cognition and their clinical applications
• Multilingualism and Irish

 Dr. Helen Kelly

• Adult acquired communication impairment population
• Harnessing brain plasticity potential through impairment based therapies
• The ability of this population to demonstrate new learning and how this could impact on rehabilitation outcomes
• Functional therapies that encourage greater engagement in society through self-management

Dr. Alice Lee

• Perceptual and instrumental investigations of speech in individuals with structural anomalies (e.g. cleft palate) or neurological impairment (e.g. motor speech disorders). The instruments include electropalatography and nasometry.
• Listener training for perceptual judgements of speech disorders.
• Interprofessional education

Dr. Ciara O'Toole

• Assessment and intervention for bilingual children
• Acquiring Irish as a first or second language
• Developing speech and language assessments
• Systematic reviews of speech and language therapy intervention
• Communication Development in Down Syndrome
• Working with population-based research databases