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🪘☀️🥁Drumming in the sunshine!🥁☀️🪘
Time away from work is also important. I'm part of The Edinburgh Samba School (TESS) and this summer we have lots of fun gigs to play - gala days, Edinburgh Pride, Porty Pride, the Edinburgh Festival Carnival and the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Carnival.
HEA Fellowship status! I was recently awarded Fellowship of Advance HE🏆 It was a really engaging process to reflect on my teaching in order to write the application. In the busy-ness of academic life, I think it's really important to stop and take stock of where we are and what we're doing. I'm looking forward to going forward with a more conscious understanding of how I engage students in teaching and learning, and making some changes for next year to build on this.
Engaging with children and young people in the area to share how ultrasound can be used to see our tongue in speech. We have had two great events recently to demonstrating ultrasound locally. At Dynamic Earth we were part of an event showcasing careers in science and welcomed many high schools from the area. We had fun seeing the different shapes our tongues made for "r" even though they sounded very similar and learning how we use the same aerodynamic principle that planes use to fly to roll our "r"s ✈️
We also visited a local primary school to demonstrate how ultrasound can help us to see our larynx and tongues, and we all got to watch our tongues dance and move like an octopus! 🐙
Going to BAAP to present a poster on the perceptual study component of my research. This study asks Speech and Language Therapists to listen to single words and rate how close the initial sound is to the target using a visual analogue scale (VAS). The aim is to see how useful VAS are for SLTs to identify subtle differences in children's speech.
It's exciting to see the perceptual study come together. I'm really looking forward to being able to share this at BAAP and catch up with what others are doing.
Preparing the audio data in Praat to be embedded in the perceptual study in Gorilla. This will test the usefulness and reliability of a visual analogue scale to SLTs in rating speech sound errors. This is the first time I have used Gorilla, and it's fun to learn something new, and brilliant to create something in this way.