Carol Anne Murphy
20162024

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Research Interests

Developmental Language Disorders (DLDs) and childhood speech, language and communication needs; Intervention Mechanisms; Outcome Measures in DLD; Assessment tools;  collaborative practice in schools including dynamic assessment.

Teaching Interests

Child language development and difficulties and clinical linguistics. Research methods, evidence-based practice, clinical reasoning through enquiry based learning in speech and language therapy.

Biography

Carol-Anne Murphy is an associate professor in speech and language therapy in the School of Allied Health, Faculty of Education and Health Sciences at University of Limerick, (UL). She researches child speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Currently leading work to develop a Core Outcome Set for Interventions for Children with DLD (Developmental Language Disorder_, as part of the TICLD group's Maximising Intervention for Language Disorders ProjectMember of Centre for Implementation Research UL (CIRC_UL) Programme Monitoring Group; Member of HRI (Health Research Institute) and TICLD (The Intervention Consensus for Language Disorders Group). With colleagues  researching in childhood SLCN, she has focused on inter-professional collaborations and partnership between health and education to support children in education to develop ecologically valid primary, secondary and tertiary level preventative interventions (alternatively referred to as universal, targeted and specialist levels of service delivery in the education setting).   Carol-Anne has a particular interest in understanding mechanisms of intervention, effective approaches to assessment; outcome measures in DLD and intervention implementation in developmental communication difficulties particularly developmental language disorder (DLD).  She was vice-chair of Working Group 1 of COST Action IS1406 Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond-a collaboration focusing on interventions for children with difficulties learning their first language (2015-2019). This work focussed on evidence for interventions and service delivery models and contexts across Europe and beyond. Among the outputs are several systematic reviews of intervention evidence and a co-edited book (Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorders, Routledge), which mapped theory, practice and service delivery in child language intervention across Europe and reflected services in individual countries. She lead an NCSE funded project in Ireland to pilot and evaluate a project to build schools' capacity to support children with SLCN.

She was a member of Catalise, an international consortium, which developed consensus on identification of and terminology for DLD and co-authored an IASLT position statement on DLD in 2017. She has been involved in successful grant applications including a Health Research Board Fellowship to complete doctoral studies on Profiles of Sentence Production in children with Specific Language Impairment (2013), an EU COST Action, IS1406 (2015-2019), a HRB Covid Rapid Response project with the HIST_HRI research cluster and a co-applicant on a HRB Applied Programme Grant (2023-2027).

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Newcastle University

Masters, Health Services Management , Trinity College Dublin

Graduate Certificate, Teaching and Learning, University College Cork

Bachelor, Speech and Language Therapy, University of Ulster

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