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Research! Who me?
Author(s) -
DENNIS FIONA
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01641.x
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , speech therapist , multidisciplinary team , multidisciplinary approach , language disorder , speech language pathology , work (physics) , applied psychology , medical education , speech therapy , communication disorder , linguistics , social psychology , nursing , psychiatry , sociology , cognition , medicine , social science , philosophy , mechanical engineering , engineering , audiology
I am a speech and language therapist with no previous experience of research who was given the opportunity to work part‐time on a research project as part of a multidisciplinary team. I was lucky to be based in a centre well‐known for its research into developing computer systems for the disabled and with a special interest in communication. The job of the team was to develop and evaluate a predictive conversational system called Talksbac for aphasic adults. This paper explains this research and also the feelings I experienced as a speech and language therapist working in an acute hospital setting and in an academic research environment.