Biography

I worked for many years as a speech and language therapist, working at first with pre-school children and eventually specialising in dysphasia. After a master's degree in London, my first research post was at the Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, working with John Morton and Karalyn Patterson looking at effectiveness of anomia therapy. In 1989 I was awarded a PhD from City University, supervised by Karalyn Patterson, for research applying cognitive neuropsychological models to categorise auditory comprehension disorders in aphasia. Before coming to the University of Limerick I worked at UCL, London, the University of York and the University of Newcastle.

At Newcastle my research centred on sentence processing disorders and phonological output disorders in naming. With David Howard and Anne Whitworth I worked with colleagues in Tokyo to develop a Japanese Aphasia Battery (SALA). With David Howard I obtained funding from the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia to establish an Aphasia Clinic at the University, which continues to offer 3-month blocks of intensive therapy to people with aphasia. I was instrumental in setting up the North East Trust for Aphasia which raises money to provide more long term support for people with aphasia.

In 2005 I became Professor of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Limerick, having earlier carried out the initial set up of the MSc in Speech and Language Therapy (Professional Qualification) at Limerick. My current research interests are aphasia (anomia treatment, effective services) and secondary school language interventions (SLT/Teacher collaborations, effective interventions).

Research Interests

Aphasia:
Treatment for anomia, including software for therapy
Aphasia assessment in different languages
Setting aphasia research prioriites
International review of aphasia services (Cost Action: Collaboration of Aphasia Triallists)
Effective service provision


Post-Primary Speech Language and Communication Needs:
Evaluation of SLCN at post-primary level
Development and evaluation of treatments for SLCN
SLT/Teacher collaboration


Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

1995

Abstract word anomia

Franklin, S; Howard, D; Patterson, K (1995) Abstract word anomia. Cognitive Neuropsychology :549-566

Books

Book Chapters

2012

Disorders of Auditory Comprehension

Morris J and Franklin S (2012) Disorders of Auditory Comprehension. Burlington MA : Jones and Bartlett Learning Aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders

1992

Deaf to the meanings of words

Franklin, S; Howard, D (1992) Deaf to the meanings of words. Malden MA : Blackwell Publishers Mental lives: Case studies in cognition :118-133

1990

Memory without rehearsal

Howard, D; Franklin, S (1990) Memory without rehearsal. New York : CUP Neuropsychological impairments of short-term memory

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Other Publications

2014

Towards unsupervised remote therapy for individuals with aphasia. Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Higgins, C. ,Kearns, A.,Ryan, C.,Fernstrom, M. ,Franklin, S (2014) Towards unsupervised remote therapy for individuals with aphasia. Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications EngineeringMobile Computing, Applications, and Services Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering :265-268