Dr Maggie Vance, CertMRCSLT, DipCST, MSc, PhD.
Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2445
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547
email : m.vance@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
Maggie Vance is Lecturer in Language and Education. She first qualified as a Speech & Language Therapist and has worked in a range of clinic and education contexts with children with speech, language and communication impairments. She took an MSc in Human Communication Science and was appointed a Research Fellow and then Lecturer at the Department of Human Communication Science at University College London, completing her PhD in Speech Sciences at University of London in 2001. She was awarded a Research Training Fellowship by The Health Foundation from 2003 to 2006. Maggie joined the department here at Sheffield in 2007 to run the multi-professional distance learning courses in Language and Communication Impairment in Children.
Professional activities
Invited talks:
- International Symposium of Association For all Speech Impaired Children, University of Warwick;
- Annual conference of National Association of Professionals Working with Language – Impaired Children, London;
- Auditory Processing Disorders Special Interest Group, British Society of Audiology;
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva;
- Centre for Human Communication, University College London;
Annual conference of National Association of Professionals Working with Language – Impaired Children, Warwick; - ESRC Seminar Group. Researching Specific Language Impairment at the Educational Interface. University Of Birmingham.
Editorial Commitments
- Co-Editor, Child Language Teaching and Therapy.
- Editorial Consultant, Advances in Speech Language Pathology.
Recent reviews
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- Advances in Speech Language Pathology
- American Journal of Speech - Language Pathology
- Child Language Teaching and Therapy
- Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
- International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
- Journal of Fluency Disorders
- Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Research interests
- Speech perception / discrimination skills in young children, particularly in relation to language development and language disorder.
- Short-term memory and speech processing and language skills in children
- Psycholinguistic approach to assessment of children with speech and language difficulties.
Collaborators
- Professor Stuart Rosen, Professor Valerie Hazan and Dr Mike Coleman, University College London
- Professor Joy Stackhouse and Professor Bill Wells, University of Sheffield.
- Dr Judy Clegg, The University of Sheffield
Current projects
- Development of an assessment of speech perception skills for young children
- Development of a framework for evaluating speech and language interventions in practice.
- Identifying error patterns in children's sentences repetition
Key publications
- Speake, J., Howard, S. & Vance, M. (2011) Intelligibility in children with persisting speech disorders: A case study. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders.
- Crosskey, L & Vance M (2011) Training teachers to support pupils'
listening in class: an evaluation using pupil questionnaires. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. 27, 2, - Vance M (2011) Supporting children with speech, language and communication needs In S. Ellis & E. McCartney (Eds.) Applied Linguistics in the Primary School. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Vance, M, Rosen, S & Coleman, M (2009) Assessing speech perception in young children and relationships with language skills. International Journal of Audiology, 48, 10, 708 - 717.
- Vance M (2008) Short term memory in children with language impairments.
In C. Norbury, B. Tomblin (eds) Understanding Developmental Language Disorders. Hove: Psychology Press 6. Stackhouse J, Vance M, Pascoe M & Wells B (2007) Compendium of Auditory and Speech Tasks: Children's speech and literacy difficulties. John Wiley publishers.