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Dr. Caroline Jagoe

Associate Professor (Clin Speech & Language Studies)
7/9 STH LEINSTER ST
      
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Dr. Caroline Jagoe

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

 cjagoe@tcd.ie

 3531896 4029


My work addresses disability inclusion in humanitarian action. I have a specific interest in International Law and specifically Human Rights Law in the context of health, disability and marginalised groups. My background is in speech & language therapy, where my work has focused on communication access and participation. My clinical areas of interest are in aphasia, primary progressive aphasia and mental health disorders. The thread of inclusive societies runs through my research: from a micro-focus on participation in conversations involving people with communication disability and their communication partners; to issues of disbility-inclusive practice in humanitarian action. I am currently the academic lead of a project in partnership with the UN World Food Programme, addressing disability inclusion in food security programming. I am the co-founder of the SADIE Network (Strengthening evidence-based Action on Disability and Inclusion in Emergencies).1
  Aphasia   clinical pragmatics   Communication and Mental Health (Disorders)   Disability Inclusion   Inclusive development   Relevance Theory   Social Inclusion
Project Title
 Developing an evidence base for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in food security programming
From
2020
To
2024
Summary
The research collaboration between Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and WFP seeks to develop an evidence base for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in food security programming. With expertise and experience across different disciplines, the partnership provides an opportunity to explore how WFP can ensure that food insecure people with disabilities are fully included in their programming.
Funding Agency
World Food Programme
Project Title
 Communication Disability and Conversational Success (Co-Construct)
From
2023
To
2026
Summary
Conversation is co-constructed and addressing barriers often involves helping communication partners (like family members or healthcare professionals) to use different communication strategies. These communication access strategies are the communicative equivalent of a ramp for wheelchair users to access a building, in that the access is achieved by addressing the barriers to inclusion, rather than aiming to `fix" the impairment. Despite their seeming simplicity, we don"t know how or why each of the communication access strategies works in conversation; we don"t know if the strategies work in the same ways for people with different communication needs; and we don"t know how the strategieswork across different languages. Addressing these challenges requires radical change in how pragmatic theory (the theory of how communicators use language and achieve meaning in context) is used to understand communication disabilities. This radical shift will pave the way for a unified theory of communication access and a programme of inclusive communication strategies that will work across different languages, for people with different communication needs, living in contexts with different levels of resources.
Funding Agency
IRC Laureate Starting Award
Programme
Laureate
Project Title
 Breaking barriers: A mixed-method study of barriers to inclusion and strategies to improve access to GBV humanitarian programming faced by older people and people with disabilities in Iraq
From
2020
To
2021
Summary
Heartland Alliance International, in partnership with the Iraqi Alliance of Disability Organisations, is conducting a 3-site study in Iraq assessing perspectives of PwD and older people, family members, GBV service providers, and community leaders to better understand environmental and attitudinal barriers to inclusion in GBV care and identify strategies to increase access. My role is to support the inclusion of people with communication disabilities through developing accessible data collection tools and training of enumerators.
Funding Agency
ELRHA
Programme
Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF)
Project Title
 Communication Partner Training Research in Languages other than English: A Systematic Review
From
2019
To
2022
Summary
It is not known the extent to which research on Communication Partner Training in Aphasia has been published in languages other than English and the highly contextual nature of language and cultural factors make it important to document the full range of material. This project aims to systematically review research on Communication Partner Training published in some of the most widely spoken languages other than English - specifically Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian
Project Title
 Navigating changing identities: Development of a toolkit and best practice guidelines for message banking as a speech & language therapy intervention to optimize communication and maintain a 'sense of self' in patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and other progressive neurological conditions
From
To
Summary
This exploratory, patient-driven research project aims to explore and develop the speech & language therapy (SLT) intervention of message banking, whereby patients with progressive conditions record phrases that can later be used on Electronic Communication Devices. These messages, recorded in the patient's own voice, have an important role both in optimizing communication, but also in maintaining a 'sense of self' and the individual's identity as a communicator.
Funding Agency
Research Motor Neurone (www.mnd.ie)

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Management Committee Member of the Cost Action, Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (IS1208) 2013-2016
Global Engagement Officer (Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists) 2018 -
Member of the Collaborative of Aphasia Trialists (Phase 2) 2017-2020
Deputy Lead (Acting) of Working Group 5 of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists, (Acting Deputy Lead September 2017-September 2018) 2017-2018
International Evidence Police Group Working Group Member (Reports to the International Communication Project Strategic Advisory Committee) 2017-2018
Member of the IASLT Working Group on Scope of Practice 2016
Details Date From Date To
Member of the Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists (IASLT) 2009 to date
Registered with CORU (Registration body for Health & Social Care Professionals in Ireland) 2014 to date
Member of the CP International Health & Development (CPIHD) Special Interest Group 2019 to date
Registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) 2005 2021
Caroline Jagoe, Angy Skuce, Maca Hourihane, Emma Daly, Karima Abbes, Ailís O"Dea, Sinead Irvine, Fiona Craven, Caoimhe McDermott, Emma Louise Kirk, Aoife Twohig, Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine: A collective re-imagining of the professional association, Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 2, (2), 2025, p49 - 63, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Sandy Abu El Adas, Shakila Dada, Miriam El-Haoui, Felicidad Garcia, Ellen M. Hickey, F.N. Hussain, Yvette D. Hyter, Caroline Jagoe, Reem Khamis, Mirna Abou Khzam, Andrea A.N. MacLeod, Rizwana Mallick, Benjamin Munson, Vishnu KK Nair, Yaser Natour, Lilly Padia, Jennifer Smith (Ng"ti Wh"tua, Ng"puhi), Crysta Song, María Rosa Brea Spahn, Juhayna Taha, V. Tisi, Betty Yu, Witnessing the Genocide in Gaza: A Collective Outcry of Speech-Language-Hearing Scientists and Language Scholars Around the World, Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 2, (2), 2025, p10 - 19, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Rebecca Palmer, Katerina Hilari, Carla Magdalani, Joanne Coster, Suzanne Beeke, Emma Gibbs, Helen Witts, Kate Sudworth, Caroline Jagoe, Professor Madeline Cruice, Aphasia partnership training: What outcomes do people with aphasia, family members and speech and language therapists expect?, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 60, (2), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Communication Partner Training (CPT) to Improve Conversation, Communication, and Mental Health in, editor(s)Anthony Pak-Hin Kong , Spoken Discourse Impairments in the Neurogenic Populations: A State-of-the-Art, Contemporary Approach, London, Springer International Publishing, 2024, pp371 - 382, [Analisa Pais, Caroline Jagoe], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
O'Reilly Claire F, Jagoe Caroline, Disaggregation of humanitarian data by disability: a realist evaluation of the use of the Washington Group Questions to support more inclusive practices, Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9, (1), 2024, p6-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Fitzmaurice Yvonne, Beeke Suzanne, Isaksen Jytte, Cunningham Una, Jagoe Caroline, Shé à idín Ní, McMenamin Ruth, Communication partner training for student health and social care professionals engaging with people with stroke acquired communication difficulties: A protocol for a realist review , HRB Open Research , 6 , 2024, p60 -, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Maria da Assunção Coelho de Matos, Elisabeth Abreu, Lenisa Brandão, Joana M. L. G. Santos, Roxele Ribeiro Lima, MACHADO, TH, Marina Antoniazzi Mancini, Caroline Jagoe, Communication partner training for persons with aphasia: a systematic review of Portuguese language publications, Aphasiology, 2024, p1-40 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Jessica Henihan, Rebecca Henihan, Caroline Jagoe, Family Therapy as an Intervention for Adults With Aphasia and Other Communication Disabilities After Acquired Brain Injury: A Scoping Review, Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 0, (0), 2024, p1 - 15, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Charles Zemp, Frédérique Vallières, Mohamed Abdul Jama, Abdifatah Hassan Ali, Kirsten Young, Caroline Jagoe, [PDF] from cambridge.org Full View The unmet need for mental health support among persons with disabilities in Somalia: Principal correlates and barriers to access, Global Mental Health, 11, (e73), 2024, p1 - 10, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Yvonne Lynch, Beth Milofsky, Cliona Sullivan, Eilis Farren, Órla Gilheaney, Susan Johnson, Ciaran Kenny, Caroline Jagoe and Duana Quigley, Developing a framework and digital toolkit for healthcare professional students and educators to support Technology-Enabled Practice Education (TEPE), Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 21, (1-2), 2023, p1 - 30, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

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Mel Swords, Dr. Caroline Jagoe, Dr. Caoimhín Mac Giolla Phádraig, Dr. Eimear Ní Sheachnasaigh, Dr. Frédérique Vallières, The Trauma-Informed Care Teaching Aid Toolkit (TICTAT), November, 2023, Report, PUBLISHED
Caroline Jagoe, 'On Speaking Terms: Eight Centuries of Communication Disability', Dublin, The Long Room, Trinity College Dublin, 2019, -, Exhibition, EXHIBITED
Jagoe. C., Thorpe, D., & Leahy, M., The silences of communication disability: portrayals in Pre-Modern Medical and Literary Texts, Borderlines XXIII Sound and Silence in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Dublin, 26-28th April, 2019, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Jagoe, C., Pragmatic (dis)ability: Insights from Relevance Theory, Research Lectures in Language and Linguistics, University of Brighton, 28 November, 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Jagoe, C., Why Is Communication a Basic Human Right?, 2018, -, Notes: [https://internationalcommunicationproject.com/profile/communication-basic-human-right/#:~:text=The%20place%20of%20%E2%80%9Ccommunication%E2%80%9D%20in,through%20any%20media%20and%20regardless], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Selected for the TLRH JNIAS Visiting Fellowship (Delhi) 2018 (indefinitely postponed)
Visiting Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand 2022 - 2025
My work is interdisciplinary and uniquely situated at the intersection of disability rights, speech and language therapy and linguistic pragmatics (specifically Relevance Theory). The thread of inclusive societies' runs through my research: from a micro-focus on participation in conversations involving people with communication disability and their communication partners; to international research on novel interventions to increase inclusion of people with aphasia after stroke; extending to a macro-focus on disability inclusion in humanitarian settings.