Dr Claire Timmins

Teaching Fellow

Speech and Language Therapy

Personal statement

I joined Strathclyde in 2005 as a part time teaching fellow in Speech and Language Therapy with responsibility for the teaching of Clinical Phonetics and Phonology. I also provide the teaching of Sociolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics.

My research interests involve collaborations with QMU and University of Glasgow in the areas of speech production and accent variation and change. In particular I am interested in the fine detailed articulation patterns of speech production in children with Down's syndrome and the application of articulatory techniques such as EPG and Ultrasound for intervention and teaching.

I am currently the Course Leader for the BSc Speech and Language Pathology programme and Year 3 Tutor.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Articulatory Speech Analysis (Electropalatography)
Speech in Down's syndrome
Accent variation and change

Publications

Improving the speech and communication abilities of children with Down's syndrome : a new model of service delivery using electropalatography: Wood Sara , Timmins Claire, Grayson Zoe; (2016)
Spatial & temporal variability of sibilants in children with down’s syndrome: Timmins Claire, Wood Sara; Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - ICPhS 2015, (2015)
Improving access to EPG intervention : can school-based learning assistants deliver intervention following training?: Timmins Claire, Wood Sara , Grayson Zoe; ICPLA, (2014)
Glaswegian cockney : assessing the influence of TV on accent change: Timmins Claire, Stuart-Smith Jane; World Congress of Scottish Literatures, (2014)
Language and the influence of the media : a Scottish perspective: Stuart-Smith Jane, Timmins Claire; Sociolinguistics in ScotlandSociolinguistics in Scotland, (2013)
Television can also be a factor in language change : evidence from an urban dialect: Stuart-Smith Jane, Pryce Gwylim, Timmins Claire, Gunter Barrie; Language Vol 89, pp. 501-536, (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2013.0041

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Teaching

I am module leader for Clinical Phonetics, Phonology and Linguistic content of the Bsc Speech and Language Pathology. This includes teaching of sociolinguistics and articulatory phonetics. I also provide dissertation supervision.

Research interests

My research interests have two separate strands. The first involves the investigation of specific articulation patterns in the discordered speech patterns in children with Down's syndrome. The second is concerned with the accent changes in the Glaswegian accent, and the contribution of media in these changes.

Professional activities

Science Lates: Contributor; 7/4/2017
Ultrasound analysis for speech therapy: Contributor; 30/9/2016

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Projects

An online Ultrasound Tongue Imaging resource for Phonetics, Linguistics, and Speech Therapy teaching at Scottish Universities (Seeing Speech): Timmins, Claire (Co-investigator); This online resource is a product of the collaboration between researchers at five Scottish Universities: The University of Glasgow, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen. The resource will provide teachers and students of Practical Phonetics with synchronised ultrasound video, audio and 2D/3D diagrams of modelled speech and spontaneous speech (drawn from collected UTI and MRI corpora).
The website can be accessed at: http://www.seeingspeech.arts.gla.ac.uk/uti/; Period 01-Jul-2011 - 20-Sep-2013
Fine phonetic variation and sound change: A real-time study of Glaswegian (also Sounds of the City): Timmins, Claire (Co-investigator); Period 01-Nov-2011 - 01-Nov-2014

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Address

Speech and Language Therapy
Graham Hills Building

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