Dr Catherine Adams BSc, MSc, PhD, CertMRCSLT

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

  • Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
  • Certified Speech and Language Therapist with the Health Professions Council

Research

  • Specific language impairments
  • Pragmatic language impairments
  • Assessment of language skills in children
  • Communication skills Asperger Syndrome
  • Social communication impairment in children

Teaching

Major teaching duties:

BSc Hons Speech and Language Therapy

  • Developmental Language Disorders 1 HCDI 20020
  • Developmental Language Disorders 2 HCDI 40032
  • Research Strand in Professional and Clinical Studies Years 1-3
  • Evidence Based Practice in HCDI 30060
  • Children with Developmental Disabilities HCDI 30450
  • Advanced Studies Option I
  • Advanced Studies Option II (Research Project)
  • Clinical examinations

Qualifications

  • BSc (Honours) Speech Pathology and Therapy
    1981 University of Manchester
  • MSc Human Communication
    1986 Institute of Neurology/University College London
  • PhD 2003 University of Manchester

Collaborators and affiliated staff

  • Professor James Law
    University of Newcastle
  • Dr Elaine Lockton
    University of Manchester
    Research project
  • Professor Jonathan Green
    University of Manchester
    Research projects
  • Dr Hazel Roddam, University of Central Lancashire


 

Publications

2012

  • Adams, C., Lockton, E., Freed, J., Gaile, J., Earl, G., McBean, K. , Nash, M., Green, J., Vail, A. & Law, J. (2012). The Social Communication Intervention Project: a randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of speech and language therapy for school-age children who have pragmatic and social communication problems with or without autism spectrum disorder. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 47(3), 233-244. eScholarID:129700 | DOI:10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00146.x
  • Catherine Adams, Jacqueline Gaile, Gillian Earl, Elaine Lockton, Jenny Freed and Catherine Aldred. (2012). The Social Communication Intervention Project: Implementation of a manualised communication intervention for school-aged children with pragmatic and social communication needs in a randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 47(3), 245-256. eScholarID:121457 | DOI:10.1111/j.1460-6984.2012.00147.x

2011

  • Yliherva, Anneli & Adams Catherine. (2011). Assessing children's pragmatic skills based on information from their parents. In Loukusa S. and Paavola L (Ed.), Lapset kieltä käyttämässä - Lasten pragmaattisten taitojen kehitys ja sen häiriöt. ( 1, pp. 195-207). Jyvaskyla, Finland: PS-Kustannus. eScholarID:118566
  • Catherine Adams, Jacqueline Gaile, Elaine Lockton and Jenny Freed. (2011). Targeted observation of pragmatics in children’s conversations (TOPICC): adapting a research tool into a clinical assessment profile. Speech and Language Therapy in Practice, (Spring), 7-10. eScholarID:83594
  • Gibson, J., Hussein, J., Holsgrove, S. , Adams, C., Green, J. (2011). Quantifying peer interactions for research and clinical use: the Manchester Inventory for Playground Observation. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32, 2458-2466. eScholarID:118569 | DOI:10.1016/j.ridd.2011.07.014
  • Jenny Freed, Elaine Lockton and Catherine Adams. (2011). Literacy skills in primary school-aged children with pragmatic language impairment: a comparison with children with specific language impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 46, 334-347. eScholarID:88466 | DOI:10.3109/13682822.2010.500316

2009

  • Adams C, Clarke EM, Haynes R. (2009). Inference and sentence comprehension in children with specific or pragmatic language impairments. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44(3), 301-318. eScholarID:1d13673 | DOI:10.1080/13682820802051788
  • Catherine Adams and Elaine Clarke. (2009). Metapragmatic ability in children with pragmatic language impairments. Swindon: ESRC. eScholarID:82490

2008

  • Adams C. (2008). Intervention for children with pragmatic language impairments: frameworks, evidence and diversity. Understanding Developmental Language Disorders in Children: from theory to practice. London: Taylor & Francis. eScholarID:3d473
  • Ahmmed A, Clarke EM, Adams C. (2008). Mismatch negativity and frequency representational width in children with specific language impairment. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 50(12), eScholarID:1d10833
  • James Law, Catherine Campbell, Sue Roulstone, Adams C, Jim Boyle. (2008). Mapping practice onto theory: the speech and language practitioner's construction of receptive language impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders (online), 43, 245-263. eScholarID:1d13675 | DOI:10.1080/13682820701489717

2007

  • Adams C, Julian Lloyd. (2007). Effects of speech and language therapy intervention in mainstream school for children with pragmatic language impairments. British Journal of Special Education, 34, 226-233. eScholarID:1d10945
  • Clarke EM, Adams C. (2007). Binaural Interaction in Specific Language Impairment: an auditory evoked potential study. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 49, 274-279. eScholarID:1d10760 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00274.x

2006

  • Adams C, Lloyd Julian, Aldred Catherine, Baxendale Janet. (2006). Exploring the effects of communication intervention for developmental pragmatic language impairments: a signal-generation study. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 41, 41-66. eScholarID:1d9451 | DOI:10.1080/13693780500179793
  • Clarke EM, Ahmmed A, Parker DJ, Adams C. (2006). Contralateral suppression of otoacoustic emissions in children with specific language impairment. Ear & Hearing, 27(2), 153-160. eScholarID:1d10761 | DOI:10.1097/01.aud.0000204311.73871.41
  • Parker DJ, Ansar Ahmmed, Adams C. (2006). Auditory temporal resolution in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Medical Speech Pathology, 14, 79-96. eScholarID:1d10835

2005

  • Adams C, Baxendale Janet, Lloyd Julian, Aldred Catherine. (2005). Pragmatic language impairment: case studies of social and pragmatic language therapy. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 21, 227-250. eScholarID:1d9448 | DOI:10.1191/0265659005ct290oa
  • Adams C, Lloyd JT. (2005). Elicited and spontaneous communicative functions and stability of conversational measures with children who have pragmatic language impairments. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 40, 333-348. eScholarID:1d8496 | DOI:10.1080/13682820400027768
  • Adams C. (2005). Social communication intervention for school age children: rationale and description. Seminars in Speech and Language, 26, 181-188. eScholarID:1d9449 | DOI:10.1055/s-2005-917123
  • Botting NF, Adams C. (2005). Inferential and semantic abilities in children with communication disorders. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 40(1), 49-66. eScholarID:1d7892 | DOI:10.1080/13682820410001723390

2004

  • Adams C. (2004). Intervention for developmental pragmatic language impairments. Aula Abierta, 82, 79-96. eScholarID:1d10142
  • Aldred C, Green J, Adams C. (2004). A new social communication intervention for children with autism: a pilot randomised controlled treatment study suggesting effectiveness. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 1420-1430. eScholarID:1d7395 | DOI:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00338.x
  • Aldred C, Green J, Adams C. (2004). A new social communication intervention for children with autism: pilot randomised controlled treatment study suggesting effectiveness. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1420-1430. eScholarID:1d8584

2002

  • Adams C, Green J, Gilchrist A, Cox Anthony. (2002). Conversational behaviour of children with Asperger syndrome and conduct disorder. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 43( 5), 679-90. eScholarID:1d6583 | DOI:10.1111/1469-7610.00056
  • Adams C. (2002). Practitioner review: the assessment of language pragmatics. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 43( 8), 973-87. eScholarID:1d6582

2001

  • Adams C, Cooke RE, Alison Crutchley, Hesketh A, Reeves D. (2001). Assessment of Comprehension and Expression (6-11). eScholarID:4d63
  • Adams C. (2001). Clinical diagnostic and intervention studies of children with semantic-pragmatic language disorder. Int J Lang Commun Disord, 36( 3), 289-305. eScholarID:1d8550
  • Aldred C, Pollard C, Adams C. (2001). Child'sTalk--for children with autism and pervasive developmental disorder. Int J Lang Commun Disord, 36 Suppl, 469-74. eScholarID:1d8547

2000

  • Adams C, Nightingale CC, Hesketh A, Hall Rebecca. (2000). Targeting metaphonological ability in intervention for children with developmental phonological disorders. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 16, 285-299. eScholarID:1d7852
  • Bishop D, Chan J, Adams C, Hartley J, Weir F. (2000). Conversational responsiveness in specific language impairment: evidence of disproportionate pragmatic difficulties in a subset of children. Dev Psychopathol, 12( 2), 177-99. eScholarID:1d8548
  • Hesketh A, Adams C, Nightingale C, Hall R. (2000). Phonological awareness therapy and articulatory training approaches for children with phonological disorders: a comparative outcome study. Int J Lang Commun Disord, 35( 3), 337-54. eScholarID:1d6667
  • Hesketh A, Adams C, Nightingale CC. (2000). Metaphonological abilities of phonologically disordered children. Educational Psychology, 20, 483-498. eScholarID:1d7121

1998

  • Hall R, Adams C, Hesketh A, Nightingale K. (1998). The measurement of intervention effects in developmental phonological disorders. Int J Lang Commun Disord, 33 Suppl, eScholarID:1d6668

1997

  • Catherine Adams, Betty Byers Brown, Margaret Edwards. (1997). Developmental Disorders of Language. London: Whurr. eScholarID:121464

1995

  • Catherine Adams and Gina Conti-Ramsden. (1995). Developmental Language Disorders. Linguistics in Clinical Practice. London: Whurr. eScholarID:121465

1992

  • Bishop D, Adams C. (1992). Comprehension problems in children with specific language impairment: literal and inferential meaning. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35(1), 119-129. eScholarID:1d8549

1991

  • Catherine Adams. (1991). Analysis of language-impaired children's conversation. In K Mogford-Bevan and J Sadler (Ed.), Child Language Disability: Semantic and Pragmatic Language Difficulties. ( 2, pp. 68-74). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. eScholarID:121463
  • BISHOP DVM, Adams C. (1991). What do referential communication tasks measure? A study of children with specific language impairment. APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, 12, 2, eScholarID:1d8502

1990

  • Catherine Adams. (1990). Syntactic comprehension in children with expressive language impairment. British Journal of Disorders of Communication, 25(2), 149-171. eScholarID:1d8552
  • Dorothy Bishop, Catherine Adams. (1990). A prospective study of the relationship between specific language impairment, phonological disorders and reading retardation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 31(7), 1027-150. eScholarID:1d8551

1989

  • Adams C, Bishop D. (1989). Conversational characteristics of children with semantic-pragmatic disorder. I: Exchange structure, turntaking, repairs and cohesion. Br J Disord Commun, 24( 3), eScholarID:1d29124
  • Bishop D, Adams C. (1989). Conversational characteristics of children with semantic-pragmatic disorder. II: What features lead to a judgement of inappropriacy? Br J Disord Commun, 24( 3), eScholarID:1d30416