Sally-Ann Bates
Job Title:
Senior Lecturer
School/Department:
CCS
Contact Number:
01752 636700 Ext: 3032
Email:
sbates@marjon.ac.uk
Qualifications:

PhD in Phonetics
MSc in Linguistics BA (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy (1st) MA in German (IIi)
Research Background:

PhD ‘Towards a definition of schwa: an acoustic investigation of vowel reduction in English’.

Have presented and published in the area of developmental phonological disorder.
Research Interests:

Vowel disorders in children with developmental phonological disorder.  

Relationship between speech processing skills and early literacy development.  I am currently working with colleagues from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh on Sound Sensitising, a therapy resource designed to improve children’s ability to analyse and synthesise sounds in words.

I am also working with SLT colleagues on The Jolly Phonics Speech Pack, a therapy resource for use with children presenting with speech and/or early literacy difficulties, commissioned by SpeechMark Publications Ltd.

Use of re-usable learning objects (RLO) and guided observation in speech and language therapy training.  I have developed the Phonetic Transcription Self-study Programme (a Learning Space curriculum development project/College Fellowship) and am currently working with colleagues from the department and John Oates of the Open University to develop an RLO on children’s play as a vehicle for assessment and therapy.
Teaching Areas:

Linguistics, phonetics, clinical linguistics and phonetics, psycholinguistics, paediatric communication disorders.
Publications:

Bates, S. A. R., Scobbie, J. M. & Watson, J. M. M. (2001). Context-conditioned error patterns in disordered speech. In M. Ball & F. Gibbon (Eds.) Vowel Disorders (pp. 145-185), Butterworth-Heineman.
Harris, J., Watson, J. M. M. & Bates, S. A. R. (2000). Prosody and melody in vowel disorder. Journal of Linguistics.
Bates, S. A. R. & Watson, J. M. M. (1996). Consonant~vowel Interactions in Developmental Phonological Disorder. In, Proceedings of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists 1995 Golden Jubilee Conference, York.
Bates, S. A. R. (1995) Acoustic Characterisation of Schwa: A Comparative Study. In, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Vol. 3, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bates, S. A. R., Hewlett, N. R. F., Kaighin, S., Sinclair, A. E., Sweet, J. & Watson, J. M. M. (1992). Distortion and possible neutralisation within the vowel systems used by some Edinburgh children presenting with phonological disorder. In, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Bates, S. A. R. (Translator from German) (1987). Psychology of Sailing. London: Adlard Coles Ltd.
Other Interests:

Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and Health Professions Council.

External Examiner for linguistics on the BSc (Hons) programme in Speech and Language Therapy at DeMontfort University, Leicester.

EYPS (Early Years Professional Status) Assessor (freelance).

LEA Governor (voluntary) for Millbrook CEVA Primary School with special responsibility for literacy and special educational needs.

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