Linda Hand

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88735
Email: l.hand@auckland.ac.nz
Room: Building 721 Room 312, Tāmaki Campus

I am a senior lecturer in the speech sciences programme, which trains speech-language therapy professionals at a master’s degree level in a 2 year course, and conducts research into speech-language therapy and its associated areas. I joined this programme in September 2007 after 20 years at the University of Sydney. My major areas of scholarship have been child language disorders, linguistics – specifically systemic-functional linguistics, discourse analysis studies, and the impact of diversity, particularly cultural and linguistic diversity, on communication and communication disorders. I maintain an active interest in all these areas through teaching, research, research supervision, and writing.

• The study of different cultural and language groups of children with language disorders, and professional practices around them. For example the scores on language assessment tools of children from Arabic-speaking backgrounds with or without language disorders; the effects of interpreter input in child narratives in Cantonese.
• Examining areas of language disorders in children that are about discourses or language texts. For example, examining narratives of adolescents with and without language disorders for the nature of their syntax, language of affect, and other systems.
• The examination of professional discourses within speech-language therapy practices; For example, the use of politeness markers of involvement in speech-language therapists talking with parents; the construction of the client in speech-language therapy discourses; and the language of therapy.
   

My teaching involves a number of courses within the Speech Sciences masters programme concerning child language disorders and my other areas of scholarship. I also teach in an undergraduate unit in Psychology (313) from 2008. I am a clinical educator to students, and conduct inservice and other courses to practitioners and students of other fields including education, interpreting, and medicine.

• Balandin S, Hand L & Sweep, A (2007) Functional Communication in the classroom. In P Foreman (ed) Inclusion in Action (2nd ed) Victoria; Thomson.
• Hand, L. (2006). Clinicians as "information givers": what communication access are clients given to speech-language pathology services? Topics in Language Disorders, 26(3), 240-266.
• Hand L (2004) Grammar Handbook. University of Sydney
• Hand L (2001) Setting the tone; Interviews between Speech Pathologists and parents of children from non-dominant cultural groups. Proceedings of the 2001 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference. Melbourne: SPAA p. 232-238.
• Cleator H. & Hand L. (2001) Selective mutism: how a successful speech and language assessment really is possible. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.; 36 Supplement 2001: 126-31

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