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School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences
Our mission is to promote scientific understanding of language, communication, speech and swallowing. Through our research, undergraduate & postgraduate programmes, we promote inclusive diversity as a powerful social and biological resource, and positively impact on personal and societal wellbeing across the lifespan.
- Centre for Language & Communication Studies
- Department of Clinical Speech & Language Studies
- Centre for Deaf Studies
- Centre for English Language Learning and Teaching
- Trinity Centre for Asian Studies
News and Events
Childhood bilingualism Issues in language acquisition, cognition and language maintenance - Friday 5th October 2018, 4 to 7pm TRiSS Trinity College Dublin
The day is organised around the questions we most commonly encounter from parents, educators, clinicians and will feature information and interactive sessions: How do children acquire more than one language? Are there any disadvantages to learning two or more languages from birth? Will my bilingual child develop language at the same rate as monolingual children? Why do children mix their languages? How long will it take for a child to learn a new language?
Speech and Language Pathology – International Network Summer School 2018, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Students from Clinical Speech and Language Studies, Eva Barry and Claire O'Kane, attended the Speech and Language Pathology – International Network Summer School in Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands in August.
XCELING
A research team from the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, led by Professor Carson, have been awarded funding by the European Commission. XCELING is an Erasmus + Capacity Building project funded by the European Union and coordinated by the University of Salamanca. Over the next three years, the XCELING consortium aims to support the modernization of foreign language teaching in Egyptian Higher Education, with an emphasis on ICT in the language classroom. The TCD team will partner with Pharos University in Alexandria to contribute to pre-doctoral training and learning in applied linguistics as well as the creation of open access language learning materials for Arabic speakers.
European Society for Swallowing Disorders Annual Congress 2018
The 8th ESSD Congress takes place in Dublin, Ireland from Tuesday 25th – Saturday 29th September 2018. The Congress theme, ‘Dysphagia: Shaping the Future’, underpins the progress we have made in the field of dysphagia to date, while emphasizing the need to progress research and clinical practice over the next decade. For more information, please follow the link above.