Dr Catherine Adams BSc (Hons)., MSc., PhD., Cert.MRCSLT
Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, Senior Lecturer University of Manchester
Catherine Adams has worked as a speech and language therapist in the NHS and in higher education for over twenty years. She qualified at the University of Manchester with a first-class honours degree in Speech and Language Therapy in 1981 and worked as an NHS speech and language therapist in Nottingham for several years. She then completed a Masters degree (with Distinction) in Human Communication at the Institute of Neurology in London. She was appointed Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Manchester in 1989 and Clinical Senior Lecturer from 1997 onwards, gaining her PhD along the way. You can find more information about her research and education profile at http://www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/staff/CatherineAdams.
Catherine has a principal clinical interest in working with children who have specific language disorders. She has many years of experience in clinical assessment and therapy across the whole age range. She has been training speech and language therapy undergraduate students for many years and lectures in developmental language disorders and evidence-based practice. Catherine has worked successfully with Catherine Aldred for several years on clinical research projects. Together they are currently developing interventions for children with pragmatic language impairments which have been nationally acclaimed.
Her research interests are focused on pragmatic language impairments and related conditions. Catherine is currently leading the first controlled trial in the world of intensive speech and language therapy for children with pragmatic language impairments (the Social Communication Intervention Project - SCIP). She is recognised as one of the UK's leading experts in this field and has published widely in both the UK and international literature on the subject. Catherine is frequently invited to give contributions to international conferences and has recently presented research papers in the US, France, Italy and New Zealand. With academic colleagues and local SALT services, she has developed and published a test of language functioning in school-aged children (ACE 6-11) which is widely used across the country.
MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATION
- Certified member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Registered Speech and Language Therapist with the Health Professions Council
- The organizer of the Paediatric Communication Disorders Research Group (North West)
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
- B.Sc. (Honours) Speech Pathology & Therapy (First Class)
- MSc in Human Communication (with Distinction) (MRC Scholarship)
- PhD. (University of Manchester)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2019
Sturrock, A., Marsden, A., Adams, C. & Freed, J.,(2019) Observational and reported measures of language and pragmatics in young people with autism: A comparison of respondent data and gender profiles. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 50, p. 1-19.
Louisa, R., Freed, J., Hartshorne, M. & Adams, C.,(2019) Speaking the same language? A preliminary investigation, comparing the language and communication skills of females and males with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-03920-6).
2018
Adams, C., Lockton, E. & Collins, A. (2018) Metapragmatic explicitation and social attribution in Social Communication Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder: a comparative study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 61, 42 p.
2016
Adams, C. & Stephenson, J. (2016) The Social Communication Experience of Children with Autism in Mainstream School. Good Autism Practice. 17, 2, p. 43-54 11 p.
