Personal statement
I have been at the University of Strathclyde since 2015 where I teach on the undergraduate Speech and Language Pathology Course. I am a HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist with a PhD in Communication Disorders.
Dr Joanne Cleland
Reader
Speech and Language Therapy
Expertise
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I am a Speech and Language Therapist with an interest in clinical phonetics and articulatory analysis (mostly ultrasound tongue imaging). My area of expertise is visual biofeedback techniques for the assessment and treatment of motor speech disorders. I am interested in research which looks at speech disorders in children, particularly in children with developmental disabilities. I am interested in motor speech disorders in autism spectrum conditions, Down syndrome, cleft lip and palate and persistent speech sound disorders.
I welcome enquires from prospective research students interested in the above topics.
Publications
- Development of an agreed labelling system and protocol for the diagnosis of speech sound disorder subtypes in the United Kingdom
- Cleland Joanne, Burr Samantha, Harding Samantha, Stringer Helen, Wren Yvonne
- (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/nm2c6
- An ultrasound investigation of tongue dorsum raising in children with cleft palate +/- cleft lip
- Cleland Joanne, Dokovova Marie, Crampin Lisa, Campbell Linsay
- The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656231158965
- Ultrasound in clinical practice : what, how, why, when and where?
- Cleland Joanne, Allen Jodi
- (2023)
- Outcome measures for children with speech sound disorder : an umbrella review protocol
- Harding SA, Burr S, Cleland J, Stringer H, Wren Y
- BMJ Open, pp. 1-12 (2023)
- What's in a name? Dr Jan Broomfield, Dr Joanne Cleland and Dr Pam Williams make their case for adopting the term 'childhood apraxia of speech'
- Broomfield Jan, Cleland Joanne, Williams Pam
- (2023)
- Using ultrasound tongue imaging to support the phonetic transcription of childhood speech sound disorders
- Sugden Eleanor, Cleland Joanne
- Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol 36, pp. 1047-1066 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2021.1966101
Research interests
My research focuses on developmental Speech Sound Disorders. I have a particular interest in Visual Biofeedback, that is, technologies which can be used to image the articulators (principally the tongue) moving when we speak. My research has focused both on electropalatogrpahy (EPG) and ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) as two of the main techniques which provide both ways of measuring tongue movement and of allowing children with speech sound disorders a method of using real-time visual biofeedback of their own tongue movements to modify incorrect articulations and therefore improve their speech.
Current projects include clinical studies looking the efficacy of visual biofeedback in children with persistent speech sound disorders and cleft lip and palate and assessment of speech disorders using ultrasound. At the theoretical level I am interested in the underlying nature of persistent speech sound disorder, especially with regards to theories which implicate the speech motor control system. I am interested in speech motor control in children with both primary speech sound disorders and those with other diagnoses including Down syndrome, autism and cleft lip and palate.
Professional activities
- Invited Interview
- Speaker
- 31/5/2023
- Biofeedback Approaches
- Invited speaker
- 7/12/2022
- On the threshold of a new age: ultrasound management of speech, voice & swallowing disorders
- Invited speaker
- 4/12/2022
- Ultrasound Tongue Imaging in the Speech Therapy Clinic.
- Invited speaker
- 18/11/2022
- Explorathon
- Contributor
- 12/11/2022
- Assessment and Treatment of Cleft Speech Characteristics with Ultrasound Tongue Imaging
- Invited speaker
- 11/11/2022
Projects
- Variability in child speech (VariCS)
- Kuschmann, Anja (Principal Investigator) Barry, Sarah (Co-investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- Maximising the impact of speech and language therapy for children with speech sound disorder
- Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- SonoSpeech Cleft Pilot: A pilot randomised control trial of ultrasound visual biofeedback versus standard intervention for children with cleft lip and palate
- Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Speech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource (STAR)
- Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2023
- Ultrax2020: Ultrasound Technology for Optimising the Treatment of Speech Disorders
- Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2021
- Visualising Speech: Using Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback to Diagnose and Treat Speech Disorders in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate
- Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator)
- 17-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018
Address
Speech and Language Therapy
Graham Hills