Ms. Aoife McGuire

Biography

Aoife has worked as a speech and language therapist in community services and in primary care at both basic and senior level working mainly with children presenting with primary stammering, speech and language delay/impairment. Aoife led the development of stammering services in the Mid-West region across both paediatric and adult services. Aoife has worked in practice education since 2005.

Aoife was Chair of the Clinical Therapies Practice Education Teams between September, 2014 and November, 2015.

Aoife was involved with comprehensive review and update of the National Clinical Competency Evaluation Form to its current format and use namely, Student Clinical Competency Evaluation (SCCE) and the SCCE Performance Indicators. These works were in collaboration with Practice Education Coordinators from Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and NUI Galway. (2014-2015)

Aoife is the representative from Speech and Language Therapy in the Department of Clinical Therapies responsible for the development and annual review of the CT Practice Education Policies and Procedures. Aoife leads the annual review of how students manage placement hours in collaboration with members of the SLT course team. Aoife is the module lead for the four practice education placements: Practice Education 1, Practice Education 2, Practice Education 3, Practice Education 4.