Newcastle University

Adult Impairment Research

Specific areas of research interest include:

• acquired communication disorders (Professor D Howard, Dr J Morris, Dr J Webster and Dr A Whitworth)
• motor speech disorders, neurogenic voice and fluency disorders, psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation in neurological illness (Dr N Miller and Dr N. Lallini)

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Projects

• Short-term memory treatment for older adults with aphasia: Investigating its effectiveness for language understanding.
  Project Leader(s): Christos Salis
• Sentence Repetition in Healthy Older Adults: The Contribution of Inhibitory Processing to Syntactic Processing
  Project Leader(s): Christos Salis
• Verb and sentence therapy for people with aphasia
  Project Leader(s): Janet Webster

Publications

Staff

Adult Impairment

Professor David Howard Research Development Professor	Email: david.howard@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7451
Dr Nicole Lallini Lecturer in Speech & Lang Pathology	Email: nicole.lallini@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 3932
Professor Nick Miller Prof of Motor Speech Disorders	Email: nicholas.miller@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5603
Dr Julie Morris Senior Lecturer	Email: julie.morris@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 6841
Dr Christos Salis Lecturer	Email: christos.salis@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8875
Dr Janet Webster Director of Clinical Education	Email: janet.webster@ncl.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 5235

Students

Cecilia Mancini

Acquired speech, language, and cognitive disorders, focusing on aphasia, and the representation of language in the brain from a clinical linguistics perspective and their clinical implications.

Natalie Wang

My research interests include cognitive psychology of language and memory and how impairments of cognitive functions affect performance of learning of people with aphasia.

Fiona Menger

Digital Inclusion for people with Aphasia.