Past Projects ( M - R )
Past Projects: ( A - E ) ( G - L ) ( M - R ) ( S - Z )
OSCAR (Outcomes of school-aged children referred for early S & LT)
M Glogowska, S Roulstone, P Enderby, T Peters, K Hindle,
Funded by NHS Executive, South West R&D
April 2001 - August 2003
Between 1995 and 1999 a pragmatic randomised controlled trial was conducted by researchers at the Speech & Language Research Unit, investigating the effectiveness of early speech and language therapy intervention. When the group of children assessed for participation in the trial were of junior school age and this study is following their progress. The aims of the project were to gather information about the longer term outcomes for children who present with early speech and language delay, including speech and language outcomes, school performance, behaviour and socialisation and to investigate the validity of the early identification and selection procedures used with these children and their longer term impact on the children and their families.
Outcome Measures for Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Community Rehabilitation Nurses
P Enderby, A John, B Petheram
Funded by The Department of Health
April 1995 - March 1996
This project grew out of the Outcome Measures project for speech and language therapists. The approach developed for that profession was found to be appropriate for use by physiotherapists, occupational therapists and community rehabilitation nurses.
Outcome Measures for Speech & Language Therapists
P Enderby, A John, B Petheram, M Sloan.
Funded by The Department of Health
December 1993 - March 1995
This project aimed to develop a methodology for measuring the effects of speech and language therapy. The project sought to adapt the WHO-Enderby Outcome Measure for ten different client groups across ten different pilot sites; to assess the validity, reliability and responsiveness of the adapted measures and to analyse the patterns of outcome obtained by the different therapists working with various client groups.
Phonology Hear IT-Sound IT
Y Wren,
Funded by The Underwood Trust
November 1999 - March 2003
The 'Hear IT - Sound IT' project developed new therapy software aimed at children with phonological problems. Initial phases of the project included a review of relevant literature and a software review to identify suitable programs to use in the study. Few titles were available specifically for children with phonological difficulties but it was thought that some of those designed to assist children's literacy development could be useful with this group. A pilot study was carried out using these programs with a small group of children in local schools. The children made only limited progress and it was hypothesised that this was due to the insufficient customisation facility within the programs, restricting the range of activities and stimulus material available to the therapist when compared with standard tabletop therapy. The next phase of the project involved developing software to use in the study. The software needed to have the flexibility and range of activities and stimulus material, which are currently available to the therapist who uses standard tabletop approaches, but with the motivation and engagement factor, which the literature had shown, was inherent in computer therapy activities. The International Centre for Digital Content at
Phoneme Factory S Roulstone, Y Wren, B Petheram, A Hughes in collaboration with Granada Learning and Gwen Lancaster June 2004 - June 2006 This project is an evaluation of a computer software program designed to assist therapists in carrying out phonology therapy with children. Initial phases of the project included a review of relevant literature and a software review to identify suitable programs to use in the study. A pilot study was carried out using commercially available software programs with a small group of children in local schools. The children made only limited progress and it was hypothesized that this was due to the insufficient customisation facility within the programs. A second pilot study was carried out using a prototype version of software specifically developed for the study. The children in this study made some limited progress but a more detailed development of a software program was needed. The final study used the full version of the software and compared the progress children made using the computer therapy, tabletop therapy or no therapy.
Portable Communication Assistant for People with Acquired Dysphasia (PCAD)
P Hardy, A Davies, P Enderby
Funded by the Commission of the European Communities
December 1996 - March 2000
This project was a three year European funded study involving three centres in the
Read Coding
P Enderby, M Sloan
Funded by the National Health Service Management Executive
April 1993 - March 1994
The aim of this national project coordinated by the Centre for Coding and Classification was to produce codes for a comprehensive hierarchically arranged Thesaurus of Clinical Terms which could be cross referenced to other national and international classifications. The purpose was to replace the many different coding systems in use throughout the NHS in order to improve computerised healthcare records and the accuracy of recorded information.
Remote based therapy
J Mortley, P Enderby, B Petheram, J Wade
Funded by The Stroke Association
January 1999 - December 2001
Meeting the longer-term rehabilitation needs of a person living with aphasia following a stroke is challenging especially when resources are limited. This research evaluated the use of IT as a potential resource to deliver speech and language therapy via the Internet to the person's home computer. The aim was to give the person with aphasia the opportunity to work on their communication difficulties independently whilst the therapist monitored progress and modified exercises remotely using the Internet.
Review of the literature related to the treatment of stammering.
P Enderby
Funded by the Department of Health and the Underwood Trust
April 1994 - March 1995
This project reviewed the wealth of literature in the preceding twenty years related to the subject of stammering. Research had investigated the causes of stammering, the different types of stammering, approaches to therapy and the effectiveness of treatment. The review of the literature was seen as important in order to establish the state of knowledge in the thinking and divergence of opinions related to these areas. The literature review identified two major concerns. There was little knowledge as regard to the stammerer's own opinions of the causes of their dysfluency problem. In addition, the majority of treatments had been tried in a 'blanket' approach i.e. different speech and language therapy centres espoused a particular model of treatment which was not necessarily tailored to the individual patient.