Browsing by Person "Stansfield, Jois"

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Are we meeting the challenge? An evaluation of SLT services for bilingual children in 3 centres of population.
(2003) Mennen, Ineke; Johnston, Sally; Stansfield, Jois
This study investigates the current speech and language therapy (SLT) service to bilingual children within three cities in the United Kingdom (UK), i.e. two in Scotland (S1 and S2) and one in England (E1), and specifically addresses whether speech and language therapists (SLTs) believe that their service meets the professional guidelines of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT). Through a combination of interviews, postal questionnaires, and Census data, information was gathered about the SLT paediatric service provision in each of these cities. For each of the three centres we established: (i) the % of monolingual and bilingual children in the population, (ii) the % of bilingual and monolingual children on the SLT caseload, (iii) the languages spoken by the bilingual children on the caseload, and (iv) whether SLTs in these cities believe that their service is currently meeting the RCSLT guidelines.
Review of speech and language therapy, phsyiotherapy and occupational therapy for children, and speech and language therapy for adults with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum disorder.
(Scottish Executive, 2003-08) Jones, C.; O'May, Fiona; Hardcastle, William J.; Stansfield, Jois
This report outlines the work of the Review of Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy for children and Speech and Language Therapy for adults with learning disabilities in Scotland, commissioned by the Scottish Executive in 2002. The review was carried out by researchers from Queen Margaret University College, guided by a steering group made up of representatives from the Scottish Executive Education Department and the Scottish Executive Health Department as well as advisors from a number of stakeholder groups.
Speech and Language Therapy Services for Bilingual Children in England and Scotland: A Tale of Three Cities.
(Cascadilla Press, 2005) Mennen, Ineke; Stansfield, Jois; Johnston, Sally
It is generally accepted that the majority of the world's population speaks more than one language and that the monolingual situation is rather uncommon (e.g. Aitchison, 1994). Winter (1999) suggests that there is no reason to assume that the prevalence of speech and language difficulties in the bilingual population should be any different to that in the monolingual population. It is thus inevitable that managers are faced with having to provide appropriate speech and language therapy services for bilingual and multilingual clients in order to ensure an equitable service to all clients. This is, however, a rather challenging task. In order to assess the need for such a service, to plan what resources are required and the best way to deliver that service, managers will need to be aware of the bilingual population they are serving. Such socio-demographic information is however not available as an easily retrievable statistic and it is difficult for managers to plan a service when faced with a paucity of data on the linguistic communities present within their area of remit. The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT, the United Kingdom's professional body for speech and language therapists) has acknowledged the need to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services by documenting guidelines for therapists in its handbook of professional standards (RCSLT, 1996). These guidelines advise that speech and language assessment should be carried out in both (all) languages spoken by a bilingual or multilingual client and also highlight the importance of offering speech and language therapy in the client's chosen language. In practice, however, it may be difficult for the speech and language therapy service to achieve these guidelines. Young and Westernoff (1999) identified several challenges professionals are faced with when working with clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, ranging from culture, language, and training, to professional matters. These challenges are often perceived to be barriers to providing an efficacious service to these clients. This study investigates the current speech and language therapy service to bilingual children within three major centres of population in Britain and specifically addresses whether the speech and language therapists working in these areas believe that their service is currently capable of meeting the RCSLT guidelines. Through a combination of interviews and postal questionnaires, information was gathered about the speech and language therapy paediatric service provision in each of these centres, with particular emphasis to some of the challenges that may affect service provision, such as language, training and policy. Further data was gathered by studying Census data and data gleaned from Local Education Authorities (LEA). The study is part of a wider study which aims to get a more in depth view of how RCSLT guidelines are being addressed, how accessible the service is, what support services are in place, and how services can be improved. In this paper, however, we will only report on the first phase of this study, as described above. In our study we use the term bilingual to refer to individuals who use two or more languages in any of its modalities, speaking, writing, reading and writing (Mackey, 1968) and do not distinguish between bilingualism, multilingualism, or biculturalism and multiculturalism, unless specifically stated otherwise.
Speech and language therapy services to multilingual children in Scotland and England: A comparison of three cities.
(Informa Healthcare, 2006-03) Mennen, Ineke; Stansfield, Jois
This study investigates current speech and language therapy services for multilingual children in three cities in the UK, and examines whether an equitable service is provided to multilingual children in these cities. Through a combination of questionnaires, Census data, and school population data, information was gathered about number and ratio of monolingual and multilingual children in the population, number and ratio of monolingual and multilingual children on therapy caseloads, languages spoken by the multilingual children and therapists, number and ratio of therapists working in languages other than English, availability of multilingual therapy assistants and interpreters, language(s) in which therapy is offered, training/education provided to therapists, and practising therapists' views on service provision to multilingual children. Results show that currently only one of the three cities is providing a fully equitable service for multilingual children and that there are varying levels of support which partly reflect the perceived need in each area. Conclusions drawn include the need for a change in how data on linguistic diversity in society is collected and disseminated so that informed decisions can influence the future of quality services to minority groups.
Strength in compromise.
(2001) McGrane, Helen; Stansfield, Jois; Kelly, Helen
This article describes Mark (age 26) who has severe dysarthria following a head injury. He accepted AAC (SpeechViewer) as a short-term measure, but was keen to use technology (the electropalatograph) he saw promoted in the media to improve his oral skills. His speech and language therapists feel that this will not help him. The ethical issues involved in the case are discussed and illustrated by the use of Seedhouse's ethical grid. These include the levels of practicality, the general level of outcome to be achieved, the level of duties expected, and the principles behind health work. Issues which impact on Mark's expectations of the speech and language therapy service and which remain unresolved are the gaps in NHS provision for young head injured individuals as their circumstances change, and the tendency of the media to overstate the benefits of new approaches to disability.
Whose right? - Who's right?
(Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists, 1999) Stansfield, Jois; Hobden, Christine