• Benchmarking typically developing children’s prosodic performance on the Irish version of the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C) 

  Foley, Michelle; Gibbon, Fiona E.; Peppé, Susan (Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd., 2011)

  Objective: To identify the normal prosodic performance for typically developing children aged 5-11 years on the Irish version of the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech Communication (PEPS-C) assessment and identify ...
• Familiarity of speaker accent on Irish children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task 

  O'Connor, Claire; Gibbon, Fiona E. (Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd., 2011)

  Objectives: This study sought to determine whether children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task is affected when sentences are spoken in an unfamiliar native accent. Method: Fifty typically developing school-aged ...
• Developing assessment tools for bilingual and minority language acquisition 

  O'Toole, Ciara; Fletcher, Paul (Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd., 2008)

  Profiling bilingual and minority language acquisition is becoming increasingly important for the work of speech and language therapists in Ireland. The Official Language Act dictates that all government and public services ...
• The effect of an unfamiliar accent on typically developing children’s comprehension of spoken sentences 

  Allen, Éadaoin; O'Leary, Deirdre; Gibbon, Fiona E. (Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT); J&R Press Ltd., 2015)

  Objective: To investigate whether children’s performance on a sentence comprehension task is affected when sentences are spoken in an unfamiliar accent. Method: Participants were 47 typically developing children living in ...
• Findings from the first phase of developing a receptive vocabulary test for the Irish language 

  O'Toole, Ciara; Ní Shíthigh, Darina; Molamphy, Aisling; Walsh, Eibhlin (Sage Publications, 2019-05-15)

  Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to develop and pilot a test of receptive vocabulary for bilingual Irish-English-speaking children, based on a model from Welsh. Design/Methodology/Approach: 310 typically ...

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