Professor Joanne Cleland
Speech and Language Therapy
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.
Area of Expertise
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.
Prize And Awards
- Meritorious Poster Submission
- Recipient
- 21/8/2023
- Manuel Garcia Prize
- Recipient
- 1/8/2023
Publications
- Unlocking speech : exploring articulatory techniques for cleft palate +/- cleft lip care
- Cleland Joanne
- Annual Scientific Meeting of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland (2024)
- Variability in DDK rate productions in typically-developing children in Scotland
- Murali Mridhula, Taylor Lauren, Cleland Joanne, Young David, Stuart-Smith Jane, Kuschmann Anja
- 2024 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (2024)
- Investigating variability in child’s speech (VariCS) : introducing the VariCS corpus
- Kuschmann Anja, Murali Mridhula, Taylor Lauren, Smith Amy, Cleland Joanne, Stuart-Smith Jane, Young David
- 2024 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (2024)
- Automated classification of phonetic segments in child speech using raw ultrasound imaging
- Al Ani Saja, Cleland Joanne, Zoha Ahmed
- Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies BIOSTEC, pp. 326-331 (2024)
- Comparing DDK rate variability in typically developing children in central Scotland
- Murali Mridhula, Cleland Joanne, Young David, Stuart-Smith Jane, Taylor Lauren, Smith Amy, Kuschmann Anja
- Conference on Motor Speech (2024)
- Speech sound disorder or DLD (phonology)? : towards a consensus agreement on terminology.
- Stringer Helen, Cleland Joanne, Wren Yvonne, Rees Rachel, Williams Pam
- International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12989
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
- Introduction to using Articulate Assistant Advanced for tongue imaging research
- Consultant
- 6/12/2023
- Introduction to using Articulate Assistant Advanced for tongue imaging research
- Consultant
- 25/10/2023
- International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
- Participant
- 7/8/2023
- 19th Biennial Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
- Participant
- 6/7/2023
- 19th Biennial Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association
- Participant
- 4/7/2023
- Invited Interview
- Speaker
- 31/5/2023
Projects
- Variability in child speech (VariCS)
- Kuschmann, Anja (Principal Investigator) Barry, Sarah (Co-investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Young, David (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- EPSRC IAA: Translating Ultrasound Speech Technology into Clinical Practice
- Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Lawson, Eleanor (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- Maximising the impact of speech and language therapy for children with speech sound disorder
- Cleland, Joanne (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2024
- 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)
- Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2024
- A Speech Therapy Animation and imaging Resource
- Lawson, Eleanor (Principal Investigator) Cleland, Joanne (Co-investigator) Stuart-Smith, Jane (Co-investigator)
- ESRC (SDAI) -funded: Creating a vocal-tract-imaging-based resource for Speech and Language Therapy teaching and training and for use in Clinic.
- 01-Jan-2021 - 25-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Joanne
Cleland
Speech and Language Therapy
Email: joanne.cleland@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3037