Professor Joy Stackhouse PhD, BSc, CPsychol., AFBPsS, FRCSLT, Reg. MRCSLT, Reg HPC, RSA Cert.

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


Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2401
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email : j.stackhouse@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

Joy is Professor of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield and a registered speech and language therapist, chartered psychologist and teacher of children with specific literacy difficulties. She is Programme Director of the MSc in Speech and Cleft and is particularly involved in clinical and postgraduate taught developments in the department.

Educational history includes: speech and language therapy, Birmingham Polytechnic; Psychology degree (with sociology) at Birkbeck College, London; PhD in Psychology, UCL; RSA teaching qualification, UCL.

After working as a community speech and language therapist in North Wales, and at Birmingham Children's Hospital, Joy became a lecturer in speech and language therapy at the National Hospital's College of Speech Sciences in London and then at Birmingham Polytechnic where she became Head of the School of Speech Therapy in 1988. She returned to London where she was made a Reader and then Professor of Speech and Literacy at UCL. Joy moved to Sheffield in 2000 to be Head of Department of Human Communication Sciences and completed her term of office for this in 2005.

Research interests

Along with Professor Bill Wells, also at Sheffield, Joy has developed a psycholinguistic approach to the assessment and management of children with speech and literacy difficulties. She uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to predict speech and language outcomes in children, to identify at risk children, and to plan appropriate intervention programmes. Participants have included children with normal and atypical phonological development, dyspraxia, dysarthria, cleft palate, Down Syndrome, dyslexia and non-fluency. A main focus has been the relationship between speech, phonological awareness and spelling. Research following up children with speech and language difficulties into adulthood is ongoing, as are investigations of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Training others and involving the children themselves in discussion about their spoken and written language is also included.

Professional activities

Joy was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2006 for her distinguished contributions to research and teaching in the field. She has published six books on children's speech and literacy as well as many journal papers and is on the Editorial Boards of Child Language Teaching and Therapy; International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, and Advances in Speech-Language Pathology. Invited talks include international conferences such as the American Speech and Hearing Association and numerous workshops and
short courses for professionals and carers.

Current projects

• Promoting speech, language and communication in schools for socially disadvantaged children, including those with cleft lip and palate – funded by the University’s Centenary Tall Ship fund.
• Follow up of language and literacy skills in children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (ESRC PhD funding)
• Language and literacy skills in socially disadvantaged secondary age children (University funded PhD project)
• Follow up into adulthood of children with speech and language difficulties (ESRC Case funded Phd studentship)
• Development of phonological awareness battery for German speaking children (University /joint location funded Phds )
• Intervention for children with speech and literacy difficulties including children with Down syndrome.
• Evaluation of intervention programmes and approaches, including work on intelligibility and connected speech.
• Nature of speech difficulties in children and relationship with literacy development.
• Children, carers and professionals’ views about speech, language and communication and how these might influence delivery of training

Collaborators

• PhD students include: Lydia Ansorge, Silke Fricke, Janet Lees, Jenny Leyden, Sarah Spencer, Blanca Schaefer, Pam Williams.
• Dr Maggie Vance and Professor Bill Wells on the psycholinguistic framework.
• Dr Judy Clegg on social disadvantage.
• Dr Sara Howard on cleft palate.
• Dr Michelle Pascoe on intervention.
• Professor Maggie Snowling (York) on language and literacy.
• Dr Judy Clegg and Dr Chris Donlan on follow up projects.
• Professor Annette Fox and Dr Marcin Szczerbinski on cross-linguistic projects.
• Professor Jannet Wright (de Montford) on training.

Key publications

1. Stackhouse, J., Vance, M. Pascoe, M. and Wells, B. (2007) Compendium of Speech and Auditory Tasks. Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties 4. Chichester.Wiley
   
2. Pascoe, M. Stackhouse, J. and Wells, B (2006) Persisting Speech Difficulties in Children. Book 3 in series Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties. Chichester: Wiley. (441 pages).
3. Snowling, M. and Stackhouse, J. (Eds) (2006) Dyslexia, Speech and Language: A Practitioner's Handbook. 2nd edition. London: Whurr. (366 pages).
4. Stackhouse, J. and Wells, B. (Eds) (2001) Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties 2: Identification and Intervention. London: Whurr. (370 pages).
5. Stackhouse, J. and Wells, B. (1997) Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties 1: A Psycholinguistic Framework. London: Whurr. (378 pages).

25 January 2012