The University of Sheffield
Department of Human Communication Sciences

Helen Jenkins, DipRCSLT; MA; MRCSLT, Reg HPC

Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 22438
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email : hcp09hlj@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1984 and initially worked with a mixed caseload of adults and children with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties within the NHS.
During my career I have developed specialist knowledge and skills in working with people who stammer and held a specialist post in disorders of fluency in Gloucester until 2003.
Since then I have been employed as a full time lecturer in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at Birmingham City University. My role involves teaching disorders of fluency to undergraduate students attending the BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy programme. I also visit and assess students on clinical placement and I am the Admissions tutor for the programme.

In September 2009 I registered as a MPhil/PhD part time student at the University of Sheffield.

Current projects

The aim of my research project is to investigate the educational achievement of young people who stammer aged 14-18 years. This is a longitudinal study which will gather information from participants regarding their academic choices and performance and it will explore the views of young people regarding the factors influencing their decision making process.

Collaborators

Prof. Shelagh Brumfitt and Prof Joy Stackhouse

Selected Publications

Articles:

  1. Jenkins, H. (2010) Attitudes of teachers towards dysfluency training and resources
    International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, (3), pp.253-258.
  2. Student Education in Disorders of Fluency – so what do students learn? The National Special
    Interest Group Disorders of Fluency Bulletin Spring 2008.
  3. Supporting students on clinical placement. The Royal College of Speech & Language
    Therapists Bulletin, May 2006.

Book reviews:

  1. Stewart, T. & Turnbull, J. Working with dysfluent children- Practical approaches to assessment and therapy UK: Speechmark Publishing Ltd, Revised edition (2007) in Child Language Teaching and Therapy, February 2009; vol. 25, 1: pp. 148-150.
  2. The Treatment of Stuttering in the Young School-Aged Child Edited by Roberta Lees and Cameron Stark, UK: Whurr Publishers (2005) in the National Special Interest Group Disorders of Fluency Bulletin Spring, 2006.

Presentations:

  1. The impact of fluent or dysfluent speech on telephone preference: conventional or mobile? European Symposium, Antwerp, Belgium, April 2010.
  2. An evaluation of teachers’ knowledge & perceptions of stammering and the resources they use in supporting children who stammer in school, Oxford Dysfluency Conference, St. Catherine’ College, Oxford, UK, July 2008.
  3. An evaluation of the training teachers receive in stammering and the resources teachers use in supporting children who stammer in school, The National Special Interest Group for Disorders of Fluency, Newcastle, UK, June 2008.
  4. Student Education in Disorders of Fluency, West Midlands Disorders of Fluency, Birmingham, UK, November, 2007.