Pauline Sloane

Associate Professor in Speech & Language Pathology and
Director of Teaching & Learning (Undergraduate)

Research Interests

My main research interests are in the area of voice pathology, prevention, diagnosis and management:

• Laryngopharyngeal reflux & dysphonia: the co-morbidity of symptoms of laryngopharyngeal reflux in patients with symptoms of dysphonia and/or vocal tract discomfort.
• Cough,  irritable larynx syndrome and other voice disorders due to irritative etiologies
• Communicative satisfaction & perception of male-to-female trans-sexuals
• The impact of voice disorders among teachers & other professional voice users: risk factors, vocal complaints, treatment-seeking behaviour, knowledge of voice care, and voice-related absenteeism & presenteeism.

Selected Publications

• Problem Based Learning: The starting point of learning should be a problem. (2003) Update. .Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists.
• Voice Disorders in Teachers. Sloane, P.M.  (2001) November. http://www.educationmatters.ie/edu_archives.htm
• CD-Rom; (2003) European Virtual University (EVU) An Open Distance Learning Project. (1999) Socrates Thematic Network, Lund, Sweden
• Perturbation-Free Measurement of the Harmonics to Noise Ration in Voice Signals Using Pitch Synchronous harmonic Analysis. Murphy, P., &  Sloane.P. M (1999) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 105 (5).1-16
• Paradoxical Vocal Fold Movement (1999) Update. Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists
• Vocal Abuse As A Psychogenic Disorder: The Polemics of Hyperkinetic Dysphonia. (1997) Tijdschrift Voor Logopedie & Audiologie. Nr 1- Februari. P. 10-13
• Voice Care For Teachers. (1997). Journal of the Irish National Teachers Organisation. Issue 1.
• Logan-Phelan T, Sloane P. (2002) Protecting the Natural Voice.  Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Health Care, & Higher Education, Montreal Canada
• Sloane, P.M., Treatment of Mutational Falsetto: A Psychological Approach. (2000). Keynote Address. Proceedings of Thirteenth Annual Pacific Voice Conference, San Francisco, California

Teaching/Supervision

My undergraduate teaching concentrates on voice and voice disorders & assessment and treatment of vocal tract discomfort and vocal quality problems. Additionally I contribute to modules on assessment, treatment and management of speech, voice & fluency disorders, surgical voice restoration following head & neck cancer, pre-clinical skills and research methods.  At postgraduate level I contribute to the teaching research modules on the M. Sc in Dysphgia and I supervise M. Sc and M. Ed students undertaking research in the area of voice, speech or swallowing disorders. Additionally I supervise undergraduate students undertaking research in the areas of voice  and voice disorders.

Pauline Sloane 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 1494
Fax: +353 1 232 1005
Email: psloane@tcd.ie