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Janet Webster

I am a Senior Lecturer within Speech and Language Sciences (SLS) at Newcastle University. I contribute to both teaching and research, with a particular focus on aphasia. I am the Senior Tutor for SLS and the Admissions Tutor for the MSc Language Pathology programme. .

I am a qualified Speech and Language Therapist, graduating from Newcastle in 1996 and going onto to complete my PhD with Sue Franklin and David Howard in 1999. I now work in the Tavistock Aphasia Centre (North East), working with students to provide intensive and theoretically motivated intervention for people with aphasia. I also work alongside people with aphasia in my role as a trustee for the North East Trust for Aphasia (NETA: http://www.neta.org.uk/).

My research focuses on the assessment and treatment of the language difficulties within aphasia. Previous research has focused on the assessment and treatment of verb and sentence difficulties and this has more recently led to interest in multi-level therapies that combine work on word and sentence production within the context of everyday discourse. This work involves an international collaboration with Anne Whitworth and colleagues at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. With collaborators at Newcastle, current research is concentrating on reading comprehension difficulties in aphasia, with a recent project grant funded by the Stroke Association focusing on the development of a clinical assessment of reading. Current and past PhD supervision focuses on these areas.