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

Fiona Menger

Digital Inclusion for people with Aphasia.