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). ...

Nurses and midwives in Ireland are knowledgeable and highly skilled resource in the Irish health system. Therefore a key challenge for the Irish health services is to ensure that the nursing and midwifery resource is ...

Background: Internationally, continuing professional competence (CPC) is an increasingly important issue for all health professionals. With the introduction of the first CPC framework for Emergency Medical Technicians ...

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 ...

Classic grounded theory (CGT) methodology is a general methodology whereby the researcher aims to develop an emergent conceptual theory from empirical data collected by the researcher during the research study. Gaining ...

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 ...

Background and purpose: Acknowledging that it is critical that researchers design and implement studies that examine teaching as a complex phenomenon (Strom and Martin [2017]. Becoming-teacher: A Rhizomatic Look at First-year ...