Social communication and pragmatics intervention research

Social communication and pragmatics intervention research draws on work examining underlying difficulties from a developmental perspective as well as what the children, their parents and teachers value about intervention. Researchers are also developing measures of change in functional social communication as well as ways of measuring the mediators of change as a result of intervention, such as development of meta-cognitive understanding of pragmatic difficulties.

Patient-reported/patient centred functional outcome measures have also been developed for people with acquired language disorders. Investigators are also interested in assessment of intelligibility as the ultimate functional aim of intervention for children with disordered speech.

We lead on social communication, pragmatics and language comprehension intervention research and the development of speech and language therapy outcome measures, for developmental and acquired language disorders.

Principal investigators

Name	Job title	Email address
Catherine Adams	Clinical Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy	catherine.adams@manchester.ac.uk
Jenny Freed	Lecturer in Language Disorders	Jenny.freed@manchester.ac.uk
Anne Hesketh	Clinical Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy	anne.hesketh@manchester.ac.uk
Elaine Lockton	Clinical Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy	elaine.lockton@manchester.ac.uk

This research draws on work examining underlying difficulties from a developmental perspective as well as what the children, their parents and teachers value about intervention.