Martine Smith
Associate Professor
Clin Speech & Language Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
My background is in speech and language therapy, and most of my clinical and research work focuses on how children and adults with severely reduced intelligibility navigate social interaction and construct language systems. My main research interests are in the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), especially in a developmental context, as well as inter-relationships between spoken and written language development and disorders. Much of my research explores how children who are learning language use multimodal communication including communication aids (e.g., iPads or other devices) to solve communication problems and how adults who have used aided communication for many years incorporate it into their overall communication systems. I am also very interested in the impact of severe speech impairments on the development of phonological and literacy skills. This links to my interest in Digital Literacy for children and adults who use communication devices - how and why they access the Internet and how Social Media supports or could support their development of social networks and social interaction opportunities.
Research Interest
Augmentative and alternative communication: the impact of severe speech and physical impairments on literacy development and working memory; language acquisition in aided communication; the impact of aided communication on interaction processes; perspectives of aided communicators. Developmental speech and language disorders Drooling and cerebral palsy Language based literacy difficulties
Publications
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Tinney, G., Forde, J., Hone, L., Flanagan, L. & Smith, M., Safe and social: What does it mean anyway?, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43, (1), 2014, p55 - 61
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Literacy challenges and early intervention for children using aided communication: Starting well in, editor(s)Fran Redstone , Effective SLP interventions for children with cerebral palsy, San Diego, CA,, Plural Publishing, 2014, pp305 - 336, [Smith, Martine]
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Smith, Martine, Wallace, Emma; Smith, Shauna, Sounds and Words: Building phoneme awareness and early literacy, Biennial Conference of the ISAAC, Lisbon Portugal, July 21-24, 2014
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Smith, Martine, Murray, Janice, The Tellability Factor: Narratives in Aided Communication, Biennial Conference of the ISAAC, Lisbon Portugal, July 21-24, 2014
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Martine M. Smith, Language Development of Individuals Who Require Aided Communication: Reflections on State of the Science and Future Research Directions, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2015
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Smith, Martine, Supporting vocabulary development in children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Journal of the Speech Language Hearing Association Taiwan, 33, 2015, p35 - 59
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 31, 4, (2015), 261 - 350p, Martine Smith, [Ed], 2015-17
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 32, 4, (2016), 227 - 319p, Martine Smith, [eds.], 2015--2017
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Introduction in, editor(s)Smith, Martine Murray, Janice , The Silent Partner? Language, Interaction and Aided Communication, London, J&R Press Ltd, 2016, pp1 - 16, [Smith, Martine, Murray, Janice]
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 32, 3, (2016), 163 - 226p, Martine Smith, [Editor], 2015-17
