Margaret Leahy

Associate Professor in Speech & Language Pathology

Research Interests

• Fluency and fluency disorders
• Narrative Therapy and its application to stuttering
• Education of speech and language therapists
• Education of fluency specialists
• Analysis of clinical discourse
• Irish standardization of DEAP

Selected Publications

• Quinn, A., Leahy, M. M., & McTiernan, K. (2012). Evaluating Language Assessments with Members of the Travelling Community, Journal of Clinical Speech & Language Studies (Vol. 18; 2012, pp. 1 - 16).
• M. Leahy & B. Dodd (2011). Manual of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology: Irish Standardisation. London: Pearson.
• Eggers, K., Leahy, M. (2011). The European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders (ECSF), Journal of Fluency Disorders Vol. 36, 296–301.
• T. Stewart & M. M. Leahy (2010). Uniqueness and individuality in stuttering therapy, in A. L. Weiss (Ed) Perspectives on Individual Differences Affecting Therapeutic Change in Communication Disorders , pp. 205 – 220.    New York: Psychology Press.
• M. M. Leahy & I. P. Walsh (2010). Paying attention to therapy discourse: Identifying therapy processes and practice in talk about talk, Seminars in Speech & Language Pathology , 31, (2), 2010, p98 – 110.
• Walsh, I.P &  Leahy, M. M. (2009). ‘‘Cajoling’’ as a Means of Engagement, Seminars in Speech and Language, 30, (1), 2009, p37 – 47.
• Dodd, B., McIntosh, B., Leahy, M. & Murphy, N. (2009). Atypical Speech in Irish Children: Identification and differential diagnosis. Journal of Clinical Speech & Language Studies, 17: 4-24.
  8. Leahy, M. M. (2008). Multiple voices in Charles Van Riper's desensitization therapy, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 43, pp 69 – 80.
• Leahy, M. M. & Walsh, I. P. (2008) Talk in interaction in the speech-language pathology clinic: Bringing theory to practice through discourse analysis. In L. Epstein & E. Peña (Eds) Topics in Language Disorders, 28, 3, pp229-241.
• M. M. Leahy et al., (2010). Foundation studies in education for therapy practice: curriculum updating, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedica: Special Education Issue.

Teaching/Supervision

Undergraduate   
Responsibility for the courses in:

• Fluency and fluency disorders;
• Counselling: principles and practice (jointly with K. McTiernan);
• Ethics;

Contributes to courses on:

• Research Methods;
• Intellectual Impairment.

Post Graduate
Responsibility for: 

• Fluency Specialist strand of taught M.Sc. Clinical Speech & Language Studies;
• Contributes to teaching on taught M.Sc. research methods courses;
• Supervision of research projects (taught M.Sc.)
• Ph.D. supervision of students in a wide range of areas, including (currently 2 students)  undertaking application of Narrative Therapy to stuttering

Lecturer and Clinical Coach: European Clinical Specialization Fluency Disorders (ECSF), an EU-based postgraduate qualification

Margaret Leahy on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Clinical Speech and Language Studies
Room No XXXX
Trinity College
7 - 9 South Leinster Street
Dublin 2

Telephone: +353 1 896 1492
Fax: +353 1 232 1005
Email: mleahy@tcd.ie