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Back to the future: aphasia therapy post stroke

30 April 2020 | | Speech and Language Therapy
When speech and language therapist first started working with people with stroke-related aphasia, they employed a general stimulation approach, the same with every patient they met. In the '70s this changed, and a more tailored approach was developed whereby therapists...

Disrupting assumptions: how to teach queer concepts to speech and language therapists

3 July 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy
Policy requiring speech and language therapy courses in America to include multicultural content in their courses was only formally introduced in 1994. Yet sexual orientation was still considered a controversial topic at this time, and it was only in the...

Dispelling the myths around stuttering and bilingualism

1 March 2019 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
There are many myths around language development in bilingual children, and an increased risk of stuttering in bilingual children is one of these misperceptions. In research studies, speech and language therapists have identified higher numbers of dysfluencies in speech samples...

Microbiome changes after endoscopic sinus surgery: all is not what it seems

1 May 2017 | | bacteria, microbiota, postoperative period, sinusitis, surgery
As we keep fighting a losing battle with bacteria and antibiotics, it becomes clear that it is not about killing bacteria, not even diminishing the bacterial load, but rather about shifting the different types of bacteria that colonise and live...

Fifth Sense National Conference 2021

20 November 2021 | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Report by: Elaine Burlingham In attending the Fifth Sense Conference, I was hoping to learn more about smell and taste disorders, to meet fellow anosmics and I hoped we would gain more understanding of the condition and information on current...

Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Scientific Meeting 2023

4 March 2023
Clifton Wijaya presenting the best oral/poster to Teja Kaare, University of Limerick Medical Student with Professor Calvin Coffey in the background. Professor John E Fenton, Consultant in Academic ORL-HNS University Hospital Limerick and current President UEMS-ORL. The Head and Neck...

Hearing4all International Symposium 2022

3 November 2022 -4 November 2022
Hearing4all is a Cluster of Excellence, a large collaborative research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the context of Germany’s strategy for scientific excellence. The project unites scientists from many scientific disciplines, coming from three universities and various other...

The British Laryngological Association and Industry

1 March 2015 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In 2011 British laryngologists Martin Birchall and Guri Sandhu, assisted by ENT SpR Chad Al Yagachi, organised the first highly successful three-day international ‘Cutting-Edge Laryngology for the 21st Century’ conference at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The Kenes...

Hearing Health Showcase

9 October 2019
Report by: Melanie Lough (Research Audiologist, University of Manchester) The Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Hearing Health Showcase was somewhat of a joint celebration, with 2019 marking the 100-year anniversary of audiology and deaf education. The day began with introductions...

Optimising hearing aid processing for music appreciation

1 September 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic
Hearing aid manufacturers’ main focus has, up until recently, been improvement of speech intelligibility. Today’s hearing aid users have much broader demands however and often cite improved music perception as a key outcome or goal. Drs Tish Ramirez and Rebecca...

From ‘patients’ to ‘participants’: a career in audiological research

26 June 2023 | | Audiology - Adult
Melanie Lough is a clinical audiologist-turned-research audiologist and, in this article, we hear about how she applies her transferable skills gained in audiology to her current role and future aspirations. Career background My route into audiology was unconventional to say...

Congenital cytomegalovirus causing deafness in children: an update

31 October 2018 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT, Audiology - Paediatric
Congenital CMV is the leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss in children. Keith Trimble draws our attention to this and gives a comprehensive guide on diagnosis and treatment. Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is common, affecting 1% of all newborns,...