University of St Mark & St John

Sally has a PhD from Edinburgh University:‘Towards a definition of schwa: an acoustic investigation of vowel reduction in English’ and has
published in the area of developmental phonological disorder.

Sally's research interests include specific speech impairment with a particular focus on vowel disorders, early literacy development and e-learning.

Sally is co-module editor and a content author for the speech and language therapy sessions, e-Learning for Healthcare (DH in collaboration with professional bodies and the NHS)

Sally received two UCP Marjon  College Teaching and Learning Fellowships to devise Webphon: a self-study phonetic transcription programme.  This online resource is available at http://elearning.net.marjon.ac.uk/ptsp/

She was also in receipt of a joint award with F. Arreckx, N. Canning and J. Oates from the Practice-based Professional Learning Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, The Open University, to produce 'Developing Through Play: A Multimedia Professional Development Package'.  This has been presented at the British Psychological Society's Annual Developmental Psychology Conference (2009) at Nottingham Trent University.

Sally is currently collaborating with a colleague at QMU, Edinburgh to develop CAV-ES, an assessment for developmental vowel disorders and Sound Sensitising, a diagnostic therapy resource pack for children with speech and/or literacy difficulties.

Linguistics, phonetics, clinical linguistics and phonetics, psycholinguistics, spoken and written language development, specific speech impairment, specific language development.

Sally is HPC registered and a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the British Association of Clinical Linguistics.

She is currently External Examiner for linguistics on the BSc (Hons) programme in Speech and Language Therapy at the University of East Anglia.

She also works on a freelance basis as an EYPS (Early Years Professional Status) Assessor.