Speech Therapy for Word Finding Difficulties

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Message from Afasic:

 

 

Afasic has been contacted by two students who need help for their research project.  Although Afasic is not connected to this project or endorses it, we thought it might be of interest to our subscribers who live in the London area.

 

Colette Quinlivan and Helen Whitmill are a pair of third year Speech and Language Therapy students at City University who are planning their research project for next academic year.

 

They are looking to research the effects of semantic-phonological therapy for children with word-finding difficulties. They'd like to investigate the results in 2 pupils of different ages, looking particularly at generalisation to untreated words and whether the generalisation mechanism differs at different ages.

 

Thus, they need to find 2 children with word-finding difficulties of differing ages (perhaps about 6 years old and 8-10 years old) who would be willing to participate in the study. It would begin at the beginning of October 2005 and would require the participants to commit to about 10 weeks of twice weekly sessions and then 2 more sessions a couple of months after the end of therapy.

 

They are willing to travel anywhere within Greater London.

 

Should you need any further information please contact Colette on 07904 582 540 or via email at this address (dk526@city.ac.uk).