AAC

10.15 – 10.35 

Ms Teodora Aleksic - The speech and language therapist’s role in supporting AAC users to participate in society

10.35 – 10.55

Ms Sarah Jayne Camenzuli - The implementation of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) with children with Autism: the perceptions of Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs), Learning Support Educators (LSEs) and parents

10.55 – 11.15

Ms Louisa Frendo Wirth - Investigating the use of a novel multimodal device in lexical assessment and intervention for 3- to 6-year-old bilingual Maltese children

Speech Sound Disorders / Auditory perception

10.15 – 10.35

Dr Pauline Miggiani - The Maltese Adaptive Auditory Speech Test (AAST)

10.35am – 10.55am

Ms Maria Formosa Camilleri - Speech Sound Disorders and Phonological Awareness Skills in Maltese Children aged 4 to 6 years

10.55 – 11.15

Ms Loridana Buttigieg - Facilitating the assessment and analysis of child’s speech in the Maltese context

ASD / Collaboration with LSE

11.45 – 12.05

Ms Lisa Abela & Ms Erica Bonello - SLPs and LSEs. How do we support them and how can we support them further?

12.05 – 12.25

Ms Donna Attard - Exposing a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to more than one language in the home: is it beneficial?

12.25 – 12.45

Ms Sarah Vella - Dance/movement therapy for Autism


Literacy / Dyscalculia

11.45 – 12.05

Ms Cristina Dimech - Teacher-led text structure intervention to improve reading comprehension

12.05 – 12.25

Dr Loredana Muscat - Literacy-related skills and literacy environments of Maltese children and adolescents with Down Syndrome

12.25 – 12.45

Ms Bianca Schembri - The development of the Maltese-English numeracy test for primary school children in Malta

Dysphagia / Transgender Voice

9.45 – 10.05

Ms Carol Ciantar - Prosody in the transgender woman’s voice: investigating the role of breathiness and pitch

10.05 – 10.25 

Ms Christina Coppini - The concurrence of Oropharyngeal and Esophageal Dysphagia according to high-resolution manometry assessment

10.25 – 10.45

Ms Erika Gatt Coleiro - Thickener effect on fluid intake in the older, hospitalised patient with Dysphagia: a pilot study

Language Development: nature vs nurture

9.45 – 10.05

Ms Estelle Zahra - The linguistic profiles of school-aged children with a history of maltreatment: a review of current literature and implications for further research

10.05 – 10.25

Dr Elayne Azzopardi - Voices of Maltese parents of children born with biological risks for intellectual disability

10.25 – 10.45

Ms Lorthea Pulis - Exploring relationships between parental Input and children's expressive vocabulary skills