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Ultrax presentations at the 17th biennial ICPLA conference Joanne Cleland and Ellie Sugden attended the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference held in St Julian’s, Malta. Joanne gave an oral presentation titled Visualising speech: identification of atypical tongue-shapes in cleft lip and palate using ultrasound. Ellie gave an oral presentation titled Interactions between phonological and motor […]

Two of the Ultrax2020 project members, Joanne Cleland and Ellie Sugden, were part of a team who successfully bid to host the next International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference.  The conference will be held from 1-4 September 2020 in Glasgow! The conference will also be organised by other members of the Speech Therapy department at […]

Korin Richmond and Sam Ribeiro attended UKSpeech 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.  Korin Richmond gave an oral presentation titled Seeing speech: ultrasound imaging for child speech therapy with the following abstract: It is estimated up to 6.5% of children (or two children in every classroom) in Britain suffer from a Speech Sound Disorder, defined as difficulty in producing one or […]

Forthcoming conference presentations related to Ultrax Craniofacial conference – 18-20 April 2018, Birmingham, UK.: Visualising Speech: Identification of atypical tongue-shape patterns in the speech of children with cleft lip and palate using ultrasound technology. Susan Lloyd, Joanne Cleland, Lisa Crampin, Linsay Campbell, Pertti Palo. LabPhon16 – 19-22 June 2018, Lisbon, Portugal Gradient change in lingual gestures acquired […]

Open-access manual for using ultrasound in speech therapy The clinicians’ manual for the Ultrax2020 project has been published. This manual describes how to use ultrasound for the assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders in children. It is open-access, and available here.   This publication was also featured on the University of Strathclyde’s Open Access blog. You […]