Dr Elaine Lockton PhD., BSc., Cert.MRCSLT
Clinical Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy
- Email: elaine.lockton@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 3442
- Alternative Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 3389 (Secretary)
- Fax: +44 (0)161 275 3373
Division of Human Communication and Deafness
School of Psychological Sciences
Ellen Wilkinson Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
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
- Member of BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy Programme Committee
- Member of BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy Staff-Student Liaison Committee
Research
My research interests are in the area of developmental language impairments. Particular areas of interest are:
- Language processing and phonological short term/working memory.
- Speech and language therapy intervention and management pathways for children with receptive language impairments.
- Speech and language therapy intervention for children with social communication and pragmatic language impairments.
- Speech and language outcomes for infants with (transient) auditory dys-synchrony.
Member of the Institute of Health Sciences Child Health Research Network
Teaching
BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
- HCDI 10060 Professional and Clinical Studies - Research
- HCDI 20122 Language Processing
- HCDI 40030 Developmental Language Disorders II
- Speech and Language Therapy Resources Academic Lead
Collaborators and affiliated staff
Collaborators
The University of Manchester
- Dr Janet Baxendale
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Newcastle University
The University of Manchester
Selected publications
2011
- Adams C, Lockton E, Gaile J & Freed J. (2011). TOPICCAL applications: Assessing children’s conversation skills: turning a research instrument into a clinical profile. Speech and Language Therapy in Practice, (Spring), 7-9. eScholarID:82133
- Freed J, Adams C & Lockton E. (2011). Literacy skills in primary school-aged children with pragmatic language impairment: A comparison with children who have specific language impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 46(3), 334-347. eScholarID:82132 | 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:1d13674 | DOI:10.1080/13682820802051788
Selected research projects
- AMPs: Assessment of metapragmatics. Metapragmatic ability in children with pragmatic language impairments: exploring its potential as a mediator of intervention.
- Perceptions of the value of an intensive intervention for children with pragmatic language impairments from educational and family perspectives
- Social Communication Intervention Project (SCIP)