Dr Hilary Gardner, DPhil, MRCSLT

Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK


Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2456
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email : h.gardner@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

• Hilary Gardner has been a Speech and Language Therapist for over 30 years, working predominantly with children of all ages. She has provided a service in all types of settings; firstly in community and hospital paediatric clinics but moving on to work mainly in collaboration with education, in preschool and primary language units and then an integrated ‘language resourced’ school.
  
• Alongside her clinical involvement Hilary held lecturing and research posts at Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds Metropolitan Universities before arriving in Sheffield.
  

Research interests

• Conversation Analysis of therapy interactions and other adult/communication impaired child dyads.
• The nature of Specific Language Impairment (grammatical markers, screening and predictions etc). Collaborative research with Professor Heather van der Lely.
• Investigation of meaning negotiation between children with communication disorders and their interactants, using conversational analysis.
• Quality of provision within education for children with language and communication needs; making inclusion and collaborative practice work.

Current PhD students

• Michelle Mills (with Prof J. Wellington) Supporting secondary aged students with Speech, Language and Communication Needs
• Shalini Wickremsooriya (with Dr Michelle Moore): The Role of Adult – Child Communication in Establishing Inclusive Practices in Mainstream Schools in Sri Lanka
• Wael Dakroury: Pragmatic Characteristics of 4-5 years old Saudi Arabian males with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)” (External Consultant to Queen Margaret College Edinburgh)

Collaborators

• Professor H. van der Lely, UCL
• Dr Michael Forrester, University of Kent.

Selected publications

• Gardner, H. P. (2009). Finding the psycholinguistic model in everyday practice. In C. Bowen, Children's speech sound disorders. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 138-142.
• Gardner,H. (in press/2009) Editorial ‘Analysing Interactions in Childhood:methods and applications’ Special Edition of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
• Gardner, H. and Forrester,M. (in press/Feb 2010) Editors of: Analysing Interactions in Childhood: insights from Conversation Analysis, Oxford: Wiley.
• Emms, L. & Gardner, H (in press/2009) A Study of Two Graphic Symbol Teaching Methods for Individuals with Physical Disabilities and Additional Learning Difficulties, Child Language Teaching and Therapy.
• Gardner,H.(2006) Training others in the Interactional Art of Therapy for Specific Needs.’Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 27 (1) 27-56