School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences : Recent submissions
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Students' views and experiences of the training and use of phonetic transcription in speech and language therapy: the Irish perspective
(2021)Phonetic transcription is an essential skill for a practising speech and language therapist (SLT) required during the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with speech difficulties. It is vital that appropriate ... -
Measuring vocal fatigue in sports coaches
(2017)Objective: This study explores the immediate impact of prolonged voice use by professional sports coaches. Method: Speech samples including sustained phonation of vowel /a/ and a short read passage were collected from two ... -
GlóRí - the glottal research instrument
(2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic processing, ... -
The distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in speech chunks preceding pauses and gaps
(2014)As part of a broader study of voice prosody in speech communication, this paper looks at intonation in turn-taking. It examines the distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in the interpausal units (IPUs) ... -
The BCH message banking process, voice banking, and double dipping
(2021)Significant advances have been made in interventions to maintain communication and personhood for individuals with neurodegenerative conditions. One innovation is Message Banking, a clinical approach first developed at ... -
Conversation Patterns between Children with Severe Speech Impairment and their Conversation Partners in Dyadic and Multi-person Interactions
(2021)Active engagement in interactions is crucial for the development of identity, social competence, and cognitive abilities. For children with severe speech impairment (SSI) who have little or no intelligible speech, active ... -
The effects of vocal loading and steam inhalation on acoustic, aerodynamic and self-perceived voice measures in adults
Background Vocal fatigue is one of the most frequent underlying symptoms of many vocal health conditions. A variety of vocal loading tasks (VLTs) have been developed for research purposes to induce the laryngeal system to ... -
The Implementation of IDDSI Framework in Irish Residential Healthcare Settings: A Survey
Background The International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI) was found to standardize the terminology of diet modification for people living with dysphagia. Diet modification plays a vital role in managing ... -
Access to employment for deaf graduates, employees and jobseeking signers: findings from the DESIGNS project
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Approved communication support for deaf patients in Ireland during COVID-1
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Swallowing Outcome Measures in Dysphagia Interventions in Parkinson s Disease: Protocol for a Scoping Review
(TCD, 2021)Background: Combining trial results to direct people with oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) for treatment is difficult because of the high variability of how outcomes are being defined and measured, ... -
The LF Model in the Frequency Domain for Glottal Airflow Modelling without Aliasing Distortion
(2021)Many of the commonly used voice source models are based on piecewise elementary functions defined in the time domain. The discrete-time implementation of such models generally causes aliasing distortion, ... -
Hidden Histories: Deaf Lives Ireland
(Interesource Ltd, 2012)This important project represents the first structured opportunity to train Deaf community members as community archivists in the Republic of Ireland. It has successfully brought together a mixed group of Irish ... -
ICE on Food: Talk related to foodways in the International Corpus of English
(2015)The frequency of occurrence of food verbs across ICE corpora is remarkably consistent, though ICE-CN is remarkably lower Food verbs favour light verbs, with decreasing frequency accounted for by semantic features: manner ... -
Effect of effortful swallow on pharyngeal pressures during swallowing in adults with dysphagia: A pharyngeal high-resolution manometry study
(2021)Purpose: Evidence base to support use of the effortful swallow in clinical populations with dysphagia is currently lacking. This study aims to quantify the effects of effortful swallowing on pharyngeal swallowing ... -
The Envoys of Phywa to Dmu (PT 126)
(2021)New are the texts which offer a glimpse into Tibet’s religious traditions as they existed before the adoption of Buddhism as the state religion in 762. With the exception of stone inscriptions the earliest extant ...
