The Bristol Speech& Language Therapy Research Unit are pleased to welcome Dr Penny Levickis
On Thursday 9
th
April from 3.00 to 5.00pm Dr Levickis will speak on:
Population approaches to identification, prediction and outcomes of children
with lasting language impairment
Penny Levickis is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow
in the Centre of Research Excellence in Child Language at the Murdoch
Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia.
After developing a novel mechanism for the rigorous coding of a
large number of parent-child interactions as part of her PhD, she
demonstrated that specific maternal linguistic behaviours predict preschool
language outcomes in a community-based sample of slow-to-talk toddlers. She
is now extending this work to examine the extent to which maternal
responsive behaviours may be measured in addition to the traditional use of
low language status in the early years to identify those children most at
risk of persistent language impairment. Penny and colleagues are also
following up a large community-based cohort of
children as they turn 9 years of age to develop a risk chart for health
professionals to use as a method of predicting absolute risk of lasting
language impairment.
During the afternoon other members of the team at BSLTRU will present other
ongoing research about Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.
Venue: Bristol Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit, Frenchay
Hospital (this will be one of the last events in the research
unit before we move to our new offices in Southmead Hospital) Bristol BS16 1LE.
There will be a small charge of £10, payable on arrival
to support our costs. Please contact
Fay.Smith@speech-therapy.org.uk to let us know if you are coming
and/or for further details.
