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Dr. Irene Walsh

Associate Professor (Clin Speech & Language Studies)
7/9 STH LEINSTER ST

 ipwalsh@tcd.ie

 3531896 2420


Biography

Nationality: Irish Number of years experience: Full Time Clinical Practice: over 11 years ; Lecturing: 28 years (including some clinical work)

Research Tags

  ADHD   Autism   Bipolar disorder   Child language acquisition   Childhood and mental health   Children, health and disability   Communication skills and psychiatric disorders   Conversation skills in schizophrenia   Emotional, behavioural and cognitive disorders   Psychiatry   Rehabilitation   Research issues specifice to any health profession   Schizophrenia

Research Projects

 see research interests section above

Representations

Details Date
Member of Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists
Member of American Speech & Hearing Association (ASHA)
I have been editor of the Journal of Clinical Speech and Language Studies. * Published by the School of Clinical Speech & Language Studies and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists 1993 to 2007 and 2020-
Past member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT)

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Basic Basic Basic

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Professional Associations: Member of Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists (IASLT); Member of Special Interest Group of SLTs in Mental Health (IASLT); Member of the American Speech & Hearing Association (ASHA)
Psychiatric disorders in, editor(s)Cummings, Louise , Pragmatic Language Disorders , UK , Springer , 2021, [Walsh , I.P. & Jagoe, C. ], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Jagoe, C. Walsh, I.P., Communication and mental health disorders: Developing theory, growing practice. , J&R Press, 2020, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Language and communication in adults with mental health disorders: Considerations for understanding speech and language therapy process and practice in, editor(s)Jagoe, C. Walsh I.P. , Communication and mental health disorders: Developing theory, growing practice. , UK , J & R Publishers, 2020, pp53 - 78, [Walsh, I.P. , Jagoe, C. & Brophy, J. ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Medical Humanities and constructions of 'self': Invoking literary autobiography to educate healthcare students in communication and mental health disorder in, editor(s)Jagoe, C. & Walsh, I.P. , Communication and mental health disorders: Developing theory, growing practice, UK , J & R Publishers , 2020, pp151 - 176, [Walsh, I.P.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Reflecting on hope: Communication and mental health in, editor(s)Jagoe, C. & Walsh I.P. , Communication and mental health disorders: Developing theory, growing practice, UK , J & R Publishers , 2020, pp177 - 189, [ C. Jagoe, P. Delmar, A. Sheehy & I.P. Walsh ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Member of Organising Committee , Irish Network of Healthcare Educators Annual Scientific Meeting 2020, 13th -14th Feb 2020, In:Preparing students for the complexities of practice and transformative experiences, 2020, Trinity Biomedical Science Institute - TBSI Trinity College Dublin, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED  URL
Gilheaney O., Walsh I.P. , "Just being alive was a struggle each day": A Qualitative Investigation of the Lived Experience of Oral Stage Dysphagia in Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis affecting the Temporomandibular Joint., , Dysphagia, European Society of Swallowing Disorders Congress, Online Congress, Online, 8th-10th Oct 2020, 2020, Poster, PUBLISHED  URL
O. Breen, S. Doyle & I.P. Walsh , Not Just 'lived' but Living Experiences of Challenges to Identity and Communication in Adult-Diagnosed ASD and ADHD , IASLT Biennial Conference 2019 , Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland., May 16th - 17th , 2019, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Warriner, N. & Walsh, I.P. , "My father died asking me for a glass of water": The lived experience of supporting a family member with dysphagia secondary to a progressive diagnosis., 9th ESSD Congress Swallowing, Nutrition and Imaging, Vienna, Austria , 20-21 September 2019, 2019, Poster, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Topics in Language Disorder , 38, 2, (2018), 91 - 95p, Kovarsky, D. & Walsh, I.P. , [Issue Editor ], Notes: [Issue Editor Foreword Clinical Discourse as Cultural Borderlands], Journal, PUBLISHED
  

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Walsh, I.P., Looking back, moving forward: SLT in mental health (...not quite 50 years a growin' but getting there!), IASLT Biennial Conference 2019 , Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland., 16th-17th May, 2019, Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Walsh IP, Creating the Future Now: Advancing Research and Clinical Practice,30th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics & Phoniatrics , August 21-25 2016 , In:30th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics & Phoniatrics , 2016, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PUBLISHED
Walsh I.P., Discourse Analysis & Working with people with Schizophrenia: My reflections and some explorations , HSE Training Workshop for Psychologists , HSE Dublin North Central Ballymun Dublin , 29th September, 2014, Valerie Moffat Principal Psychologist, Manager, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Walsh I.P. & Jagoe, C. , 3rd International Round Table on Discourse Analysis "Professional identities: Discourse in (Allied) Healthcare", June 26-27, 2014, Department of Clinical Speech & Language Studies, Trinity College Dublin Ireland , Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Walsh, I.P. , Research in the SLT-Mental Health Clinic: Processes, Pitfalls, Products & Profits!, Special Interest Group Speech and Language Therapists in Mental Health , Dublin, Ireland , February 15th , 2012, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Walsh I., Bulletin (Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists), 2000, p21 , Review, PUBLISHED
Walsh I., Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 13, (3), 1999, p239-241 , Review, PUBLISHED
Walsh I., Folia Phoniatrics et Logopaedica, 46, (4), 1994, p206-207 , Review, PUBLISHED
Walsh I., Journal of Clinical Speech & Language Studies, 1993, p70-72 , Review, PUBLISHED
Walsh I., Journal of Clinical Speech & Language Studies, 1993, p75-77 , Review, PUBLISHED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Provosts' Teaching Award - Commendation 2013

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Research Interests: (i) Analysis of discourse in ordinary and extraordinary contexts (e.g. everyday talk in interaction; media discourse; clinical discourse analysis, including discourse of the SLT clinic, dental surgery, and other contexts of (medical)interaction); (ii) Analysis of illness narratives and personal life biographies; (iii) communication disorders in child and adult mental health disorders, including forensic psychiatry;(iv) development of professional identity in health and social care professions.