I am a registered speech and language therapist experienced inworking with children who havespeech, language, and communication problems across a range of settings fromprivate practice to Public - No restriction settings in Ireland and New Zealand.Research Interests Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) (Gagarina et al, 2019 in particular) to Irish Narrative enrichment for preschool and school agedchildren Dynamic assessment of Irish syntax Dynamic assessment of English morphology in multilingual children Representations of people with communication impairments in mass media Representations of people with communication impairments in professional report writing Childrens insights into living with speech sound disorders using childrens drawings Teachers experiences of multilingual children in the classroom SLTs experiences of working with multilingual families SLT for transgender people Research CollaborationsLocal:My colleague Dr Clare Carroll and I are working on representations of people with dementia in Irish broadsheet newspapers. Together with my colleague Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliot, we are adapting MAIN (Gagarina et al., 2019) to Irish. Together with my colleagues Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliot amp; Dr. Rena Lyons, we are working on a narrative enrichment programme for pre-schoolers and school aged children. I am a member of the Academic Clinical Alliance with colleagues in NUI Galway and a range of HSE regions working on less-biased ways of assessing language in multilingual children including non-word and sentence repetition tasks. National:I am working with Dr. Ciara O Toole in UCC on the development of a dynamic assessment task for Irish syntax. I am working with SLT colleagues Rachel Moore, HSE National Gender Service, Rebecca McConnell HSE, amp; Linda Coyle, Independent SLT on a project exploring SLTs experiences of working with transgender clients. International:I am working with Professor Nicole Muller in UCC amp; Professor Beth Armtstrong Edith Cowan University, Australia, and Dr Rena Lyons in NUI Galway on agency in SLT report-writing. Key Words: qualtitative methods, thematic analysis, scoping reviews, dynamic assessment , narrative, MAIN (Gagarina et al. 2019), critical discourse studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics, representation of people with communication impairmentsin mass media, professional discourse, childrens drawings, perspectives of children with speech sound disorders ContributionSocietal Impact Talk Nua blog for multilingual families amp; SLTs working with multilingual familiesa target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.talknua.comwww.talknua.com Explore funding for a series of leaflets supporting multilingual languagedevelopment. The leaflets are available in Irish, English, French, Spanish, Finnish, Polish and Russian and can be downloaded at Talk Nuaa target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.talknua.comwww.talknua.com PEaCH Ambassador for an Erasmus + project empowering multilingual families in 24 Eu languages RTÉ Brainstorm contributora target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.rte.iebrainstorm202001221110188-how-your-bilingual-babys-brain-handles-two-languageshttps:www.rte.iebrainstorm202001221110188-how-your-bilingual-babys-brain-handles-two-languages... Becoming Bilingual Facebook group for parents of multilingual children with colleague Nadja Herkner .a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.facebook.comgroups212795376630606https:www.facebook.comgroups212795376630606

IResearch InterestsAdapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) (Gagarina et al, 2019 in particular) to Irish Dynamic assessment of Irish syntax Dynamic assessment of English morphology in mulitlingual children Representations of people with communication impairments in mass media Representations of people with communication impairments in professional report writing Childrens insights into living with speech sound disorders using childrens drawings Teachers experiences of multilingual children in the classroom Research CollaborationsLocal:My colleague Dr Clare Carroll and I are working on representations of people with dementia in Irish broadsheet newspapers. Together with my colleague Dr. Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliot, we are adapting MAIN (Gagarina et al., 2019) to Irish. I am a member of the Academic Clinical Alliance with colleagues in NUI Galway and a range of HSE regions working on less-biased ways of assessing language in multilingual children including non-word and sentence repetition tasks. National:I am working with Dr. Ciara O Toole in UCC on the development of a dynamic assessment task for Irish syntax. International:I am working with Professor Nicole Muller in UCC amp; Professor Beth Armtstrong Edith Cowan University, Australia on agency in SLT report-writing. Key Words:qualtitative methods, thematic analysis, scoping reviews, dynamic assessment , narrative, MAIN (Gagarina et al. 2019), critical discourse studies, Systemic Functional Llinguistics, representation in mass media, professional discourse.