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Helen Stringer, BSc, PGCE, PhD, FRCSLT
Professor of Childhood Speech Sound Disorders and Behaviour Change, Newcastle University
I am Professor of Childhood Speech Sound Disorders and Behaviour Change and a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist at Newcastle University. After graduation as a speech and language therapist and primary school teacher, I worked with children with severe and complex speech and language disorders in special education settings for many years, here in the North East of England and in Australia. I was manager of the paediatric speech and language therapy service in Newcastle for nearly ten years, whilst specialising in child and adolescent mental health and completing my PhD. I have worked at Newcastle University for over 20 years now and specialise in using behaviour change theories to develop and evaluate speech and language therapy interventions, working with practitioners to normalise use in practice. In 2024 I was lead author on the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Speech Sound Disorder Guidance and Childhood Apraxia of Speech Position Paper.
As well as being a member of the MISLToe_SSD research team, I have also contributed to the LIVELY evaluation of interventions for pre-school children with language disorders. I led the NNUTS project, developing a framework for partnership working between speech and therapy services and educational settings to implement sustainable universal, targeted and specialist interventions for children with speech and language difficulties. I developed the award winning and evidence based NAPA and NIPA assessment and intervention for phonological awareness, used in over 30 countries, supporting the speech, vocabulary, reading and spelling of thousands of children.
Current Research
In addition to my continuing involvement in the MISLToe_SSD study, I am involved in research investigating intervention for phonological awareness and for adolescents with language and mental health difficulties.
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