
Dr Wendy Cohen
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Speech and Language Therapy
Area of Expertise
- Speech disorders in children and adolescents
- Voice disorders in children and adolescents
- Communication disability in those with an associated genetic condition
- Clinical Education and Professional Development
Prize And Awards
- Strathclyde Women+in Leadership
- Recipient
- 13/3/2023
Qualifications
I currently hold several areas of responsibility within the University and externally:
University responsibilities:
- Head of the Graduate School
- Associate Dean PGR
- School of Psychological Sciences and Health Ethics Committee
- University Quality Assurance Contact for Health and Care Professions Council
- Professional Lead in Speech and Language Therapy (2016 - 2021)
- Mentor STEP SFHEA Support Network (2017)
- University Personal Development Planning Network (until 2016)
- Responsible for leading negotiation of PPA for 8/10 health boards as listed above on behalf of SLT and NCPO programmes (until 2016)
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Board of Study member (2013 - 2016)
External and Professional responsibilities
- Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (9502)
- Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council (SL02551)
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PR119602)
- Health and Care Professions Council Fitness to Practice Panel Member (2022 - current)
- RCSLT Committee of Representatives of Education in Speech and Language Therapy (CREST) (2016 - 2021)
- Secretary to CREST (2017 - 2018)
- Chair of CREST (2018 - 2021)
- Maxwell Bequest Committee (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) (2017 - 2022)
- West of Scotland NHS Research Ethics Committee Member/ Vice Chair (WESROC4) (2017 - current)
Publications
- Paediatric voice disorder: who to refer and how to assess? A summary of recent literature
- Cohen Wendy, Wynne David M
- Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Vol 32, pp. 156-165 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1097/MOO.0000000000000970
- Translation and validation of the intelligibility in context scale into Sinhala for adolescents in Sri Lanka with cleft lip and palate
- Mirihagalla Kankanamalage Inoka, Cleland Joanne, Cohen Wendy
- Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol 37, pp. 398-414 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2022.2120417
- An investigation into quality of life of adolescents with repaired Ccleft Lip and Palate living in Sri Lanka
- Mirihagalla Inoka, Cohen Wendy, Cleland Joanne
- International Cleft Congress (2022)
- Validation of the intelligibility in context scale (ICS) in Sinhala for use with children with cleft lip and palate in Sri Lanka
- Mirihagalla Kankanamalage Inoka Udayangani Sirimanna, Cohen Wendy, Cleland Joanne
- International Cleft Congress (2022)
- Validation of the Sinhalese version of the intelligibility in context scale
- Mirihagalla Kankanamalage Inoka Udayangani Sirimanna, Cohen Wendy, Cleland Joanne
- 18th Biennial Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (2021)
- Supporting student teachers – trying to prevent a problem before it arises
- Cohen Wendy, Andrews Carolyn
- Cutting Edge Laryngology 2019 (2019)
Teaching
The SLT programme at the University of Strathclyde is one of only two in Scotland, and one of the longest running programmes in the UK. SLTs have been formally educated in Glasgow since 1935 and the course is currently regarded in high esteem across the UK. This high esteem continues with high response rates in the National Student Survey.
I have several key teaching responsibilities including voice disorders and developmental language disorders, both aligning with my research interests.
From 2005 until 2016 I coordinated all aspects of the student's undergraduate practice placement programme, working closely with colleagues across Scotland. This role required me to work closely with national systems including the Scottish Government, the Health and Care Professions Council and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists to ensure that our graduates are able to enter into the workplace with the required skills to work as speech and langauge therapists.
I have considerable external examining and external assessing experience including:
- External examiner for BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy, City, University of London. current
- External examiner for BSc Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin. October 2017 - 2020
- External examiner for BSc Hons Speech Pathology and Therapy, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh 2013 – 2017
- External adviser for Manchester Metropolitan University - BSc Hons Speech and Language Therapy - June 2022.
- External adviser for Sheffield University - BSc Hons Speech and Language Therapy Programme Revalidation – November 2017.
- External adviser for Birmingham City University - BSc Hons Speech and Language Therapy Programme Revalidation - October 2016.
- External assessor, Faculty Programme Panel, Manchester Metropolitan University (AKMI Metropolitan College, Athens). May 2013
Research Interests
My research interests are aligned to University’s health and wellbeing strategy in the area of speech, language, voice and communication.
Recent projects focused on developing tools for evaluating voice difficulties in children.
My longest standing interests relate to a national collaboration investigating the genetic factors associated with language and communication difficulties. My involvement in this (the SLI consortium) dates back to the design, collection and analysis of genetic and language performance data from a Scottish family cohort study. The SLI Consortium brought together key personnel from a series of cohort studies to increase the statistical strength of the data. I led the design of the language assessment protocol and data gathering for the Scottish cohort. The data continues to be analysed as genetic analysis techniques are refined. This is resulting in current collaborative publications which are attributed to key named authors and all members of the SLI Consortium who had principle involvement in the data gathering and early analysis.
Professional Activities
- Fitness to Practice Panel
- Consultant
- 19/12/2024
- NHS SCOTLAND (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 16/12/2024
- NHS Health Research Authority Ethics Committee (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 6/12/2024
- SGSSS Competition Panel Review - Open Collaborative Competition (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 3/12/2024
- Fitness to Practice Panel
- Consultant
- 15/11/2024
- CAHPR UK Lunchtime Webinar Series
- Keynote speaker
- 13/11/2024
Projects
- Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis: Towards improved clinical diagnosis using analysis of voice recordings
- Di Caterina, Gaetano (Principal Investigator) Cohen, Wendy (Co-investigator) Soraghan, John (Co-investigator)
- Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis: Towards improved clinical diagnosis using analysis of voice recordings
- 01-Jan-2018 - 28-Jan-2019
- Voice outcomes following airway reconstruction in children
- Cohen, Wendy (Principal Investigator)
- Voice outcomes following airway reconstruction in children
- 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2015
- Parent perceptions of Down’s Syndrome Scotland (DSS) communication groups
- Anderson, Carolyn (Co-investigator) Cohen, Wendy (Academic)
- 06-Jan-2014 - 16-Jan-2014
- Speech factors predicting change in children with repaired cleft palates (Maxwell Bequest - MPhil Studentship SLT)
- Cohen, Wendy (Principal Investigator) Lowit, Anja (Co-investigator)
- 29-Jan-2013 - 30-Jan-2015
- Advancing the AHP practice-based education pre-registration agenda
- Cohen, Wendy (Academic) Figgins, Elaine (Academic)
- 01-Jan-2011 - 31-Jan-2012
- Developing a protocol for joint ENT/SLT assessment for children with voice
- Cohen, Wendy (Principal Investigator)
- 20-Jan-2010 - 30-Jan-2011
Contact
Dr
Wendy
Cohen
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Speech and Language Therapy
Email: wendy.cohen@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3793