Staff Profiles

PhD in Neurolinguistics (2006)

MA in Clinical Linguistic Research (2002)

BSc (Hons) Speech Pathology & Therapy (2000)

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Research Lead

Chair of Board of Studies & Board of Examiners

Senior Tutor

Speech & Language Therapist at the Tavistock Aphasia Centre (North East)

HCPC registered (SL06768)

RCSLT member (RC0016487)

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Aphasiology, Editor in Chief

Editorial Board Member:

• Communication Sciences & Disorders (CSD); official journal of the Korean Academy of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
• Speech, Language, and Hearing; official journal of the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists' Association
• Previously Editor (Language Section) Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

On-going Research Projects in 2024-25:

Intra-individual cognitive-linguistic variability in aphasia (with Lilla Zakariás, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Latent aphasia and processing speed (with Cong Zhang, Newcastle University; Gayle DeDe, Temple University, USA)

Speech-timing analysis of spoken narratives in aphasia (with Gayle DeDe, Temple University, USA; Arpita Bose, University of Reading)

Dual-task and speech in typical ageing (with Laura Murray, Western University, Canada)

• PhD Supervision

Scarlett Hart (ESRC funded) - with Heike Pichler and Rory Turnbull (Newcastle)

Mahmoud Kargar (ESRC funded) - with Janet Webster, Lisa Shaw and Chris Price (Newcastle)

Abena Owusu Antwi (IDEALAB funded) - with Janet Webster (Newcastle), Dörte de Kok and Frank Tsiwah (Groningen)

Jonathan Gerona (IDEALAB funded) - with Janet Webster (Newcastle), Dörte de Kok and Roel Jonkers (Groningen)

Introduction to language pathology

Aphasia

Research methods

Clinical supervision at the Tavistock Aphasia Centre (North East)

• Articles

  • Salis C, Murray LL, Jarrar R. Spoken Language Dual-task Effects in Typical Aging: A systematic review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2025. Submitted.
  • DeDe G, Salis C, Bose A. Discourse planning in post-stroke aphasia: The role of executive function on pauses and clauses. Aphasiology 2025. Submitted.
  • Gerona J, de Kok D, Salis C, Webster J, Jonkers R. Characterization of agrammatism in Tagalog: Evidence from narrative spontaneous speech. Aphasiology 2025, 39(3), 385-417.
  • Tessaro B, Salis C, Hameau S, Nickels L. How cognition has been assessed in research with people with aphasia: A systematic scoping review. Speech, Language and Hearing 2024, 27(3), 176-190.
  • Tessaro B, Hameau S, Salis C, Nickels L. Semantic impairment in aphasia: A problem of control?. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2023, 25(6), 903-914.
  • Webster J, Morris J, Salis C, Howard D. Reading for meaning: The influence of reader characteristics on paragraph understanding in aphasia. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology 2023, 33(1), 378-392.
  • Salis C, Jarrar R, Murray L. Language specific dual-task effects after stroke: A systematic review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2023, 66(8), 2858-2883.
  • Salis C, DeDe G. Sentence production in a discourse context in latent aphasia: A real-time study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2022, 31(3), 1284-1296.
  • Vukovic M, Sukur Z, Vukovic I, Salis C, Code C. Reliability and validity of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39 (SAQOL-39) for a Serbian population. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2022, 24(2), 168-172.
  • Boyle M, Gordon JK, Harnish SM, Kiran S, Martin N, Rose ML, Salis C. Evaluating Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches to Interventions for Aphasia Within the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022, 103(3), 590-598.
  • Fridriksson J, Basilakos A, Boyle M, Cherney LR, DeDe G, Gordon JK, Harnish SM, Hoover EL, Hula WD, Hunting Pompon R, Philip Johnson L, Kiran S, Murray LL, Rose ML, Obermeyer J, Salis C, Walker GM, Martin N. Demystifying the Complexity of Aphasia Treatment: Application of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification Systemx. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2022, 103(3), 574-580.
  • Salis C, Murray L, Vonk JMJ. Systematic review of subjective memory measures to inform assessing memory limitations after stroke and stroke-related aphasia. Disability and Rehabilitation 2021, 43(11), 1488-1506.
  • Salis C, Martin N, Reinert L. Sentence Recall in Latent and Anomic Aphasia: An Exploratory Study of Semantics and Syntax. Brain Sciences 2021, 11(2), 230.
  • Menger F, Morris J, Salis C. The impact of aphasia on Internet and technology use. Disability and Rehabilitation 2020, 42(21), 2986-2996.
  • DeDe G, Salis C. Temporal and Episodic Analyses of the Story of Cinderella in Latent Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2020, 29(1S), 449-462.
  • Zakariás L, Kelly H, Salis C, Code C. The methodological quality of short-term/working memory treatments in post-stroke aphasia: A systematic review. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2019, 62(6), 1979-2001.
  • Faraday J, Salis C, Barrett A. Equipping nurses and care staff to manage mealtime difficulties in people with dementia: A systematic scoping review of training needs and interventions. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2019, 28(2), 717-742.
  • Zakariás L, Salis C, Wartenburger I. Transfer effects on spoken sentence comprehension and functional communication after working memory training in stroke aphasia. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2018, 48, 47-63.
  • Murray L, Salis C, Martin N, Dralle J. The use of standardised short-term and working memory tests in aphasia research: a systematic review. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: An International Journal 2018, 28(3), 309-351.
  • Salis C, Martin N, Meehan SV, McCaffery K. Short-term memory span in aphasia: Insights from speech-timing measures. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2018, 48, 176-189.
  • Salis C, Murray L, Bakas K. An International Survey of Assessment Practices for Short-Term and Working Memory Deficits in Aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2018, 27, 574-591.
  • Salis C, Hwang F, Howard D, Lallini N. Short-term and Working Memory Treatments for Improving Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia: A Review and a Replication Study. Seminars in Speech and Language 2017, 38(01), 29-39.
  • Menger F, Morris J, Salis C. Internet Use in Aphasia: A Case Study Viewed Through the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health. Topics in Language Disorders 2017, 37(1), 6-24.
  • Menger F, Morris J, Salis C. Aphasia in an Internet Age: Wider Perspectives on Digital Inclusion. Aphasiology 2016, 30(2-3), 112-132.
  • Salis C. Short-term memory treatment: Patterns of learning and generalisation to sentence comprehension in a person with aphasia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 2012, 22(3), 428-448.
  • Salis C. Understanding of auditory discourse in older adults: The effects of syntax and working memory. Aphasiology 2011, 25(4), 529-539.
  • Salis C, Saddy JD. Comprehension of wh-questions in a case of mixed dementia. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2011, 24(2), 156-162.
  • Salis C, Edwards S. Treating written verbs and sentences in aphasia: A clinical study. Aphasiology 2010, 24(9), 1051-1063.
  • Edwards S, Salis C. Individual variation and task effects: Response to Inglis. Aphasiology 2010, 24(1), 116-118.
  • Salis C, Edwards S. Tests of syntactic comprehension in aphasia: An investigation of task effects. Aphasiology 2009, 23(10), 1215-1230.
  • Salis C. Processing of wh-questions in a case of posterior cortical atrophy. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2009, 11(6), 461-471.
  • Salis C, Edwards S. Comprehension of wh-questions and declarative sentences in agrammatic aphasia: The set partition hypothesis . Journal of Neurolinguistics 2008, 21(5), 375-399.
  • Salis C, Edwards S. Adaptation theory and non-fluent aphasia in English. Aphasiology 2004, 18(12), 1103-1120.

• Bibliography

  • Edwards S, Salis C. Aphasia. Oxford Bibliographies: Linguistics 2015.

• Book Chapters

  • Nickels L, Tessaro B, Hameau S, Salis C. The Complex Relationship between Cognition and Language: Illustrations from Acquired Aphasia. In: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller, and Elizabeth Spencer, ed. The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2024, pp.273-286.
  • Salis C, Kelly H, Code C. Memory impairments in aphasia. In: Damico,JS;Ball,MJ, ed. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2019, pp.1155-1159.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Zhang C, Li T, DeDe G, Salis C. Prosody of speech production in latent post-stroke aphasia. In: Interspeech 2024. 2024, Kos Island, Greece.
  • Welsh D, Morrissey K, Foley S, McNaney R, Salis C, McCarthy J, Vines J. Ticket to talk: Supporting conversation between young people and people with dementia through digital media. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2018, Montreal, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery.

• Editorials

  • Salis C. Editorial: Introduction to the New Editor. Aphasiology 2022, 36(10), 1148-1148.
  • Minkina I, Salis C, Martin N. Short-term and working memory deficits in aphasia: Current issues in theory, evidence, and treatment. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2018, 48, 1-3.
  • Salis C, Hwang F. Digital technology and aphasia. Aphasiology 2016, 30(2-3), 109-111.

• Online Publication

  • Salis C, Obermeyer J, Edwards S. Aphasia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199772810-0052.

• Review

  • Salis C, Kelly H, Code C. Assessment and treatment of short-term and working memory impairments in stroke aphasia: A practical tutorial. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 2015, 50(6), 721-736.