Background: Facilitation therapy has been shown to result in improvements in picture naming as a result of repeated presentation of stimuli. In aphasic subjects greater accuracy is seen (Howard et al 1985) and for non ...

Background: Previous research has shown that Facilitation Therapy improves word retrieval in individuals with anomia (Nickels 2002b). Facilitation refers to the strengthening of neurological mappings between semantic and ...

Background: Word retrieval difficulty (anomia) is almost universal in aphasias of all types. Most naming therapy however is only effective for the treated words (Best et al 2002; Nickels 2002; Wisenburn and Mahoney 2009). ...

National and international health policies recognise that communities should be centrally involved in shaping primary healthcare services. Using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) this study is designed to critically explore ...

This Irish Research Council (New Foundations Scheme) Funded Symposium was organised by Dr. Lucy Hearne, Department of Education and Professional Studies, UL, in association with Geraldine Lambert, Limerick Employment ...

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed a surge in interest around ethics in research. Originally focused on the compilation of ethics guidelines and the importance of having all research approved by institutional ...

Nationally, and internationally, there is a lack of student voice in the curriculum and a relative absence of the role of teachers as curriculum-makers. Furthermore, a dilemma that most national education systems face is ...

New Foundations: School “Ethos” and LGBT Sexualities took place on the 17th of May 2013 at the University of Limerick.

Aim: To explore and describe the experience of mental health and addiction for young people living in urban deprived areas in Ireland. Method: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 young adults ...