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ELCISS aims to enhance language and communication in secondary school children with primary language and communication impairment through narrative/storytelling and vocabulary enrichment.
Victoria L. Joffe
Senior Lecturer in developmental speech, language and communication impairment, principal investigator on the ELCISS research programme.
Qualifications: B.A. (Honours) Speech and Hearing Therapy (Witwatersrand, S.A.) Cum Laude; L.T.C.L. ( Licentiate Teacher) Speech and Drama (Trinity College, London); D.Phil (Experimental Psychology) (Oxon).
Selected Publications:
- Joffe, V.L. and Shapiro, G. (1991).Sound Based Language Play in Four Language Impaired Subjects. The South African Journal Of Communication Disorders, 38, pp. 119-128.
- Joffe, V. L. (1997). The relationship between linguistic awareness and reading and spelling development in children with specific language impairment. D.Phil. Thesis, Oxford University.
- Penn, C., Jones, D. and Joffe, V. (1997). Hierarchical Discourse Therapy: A Method for the Mild Patient. Aphasiology, 11, 6, 601-613. Joffe, V.L. (1998). Rhyming and related skills of children with specific language impairment. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive-Current Psychology of Cognition, 17, 2, 479-512.
- Joffe V.L. and Poulton, H. (2001). The joint delivery of personal and social education (PSE) in a special school. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Proceedings of the RCSLT's 2001 Conference: Sharing Communication,36, 228-233.
- Joffe, V.L. (2002). Survival Skills for students. Therapy Weekly, August 8th.
- Joffe, V.L. (2006). Enhancing language and communication in language-impaired secondary school-aged children. In Ginsborg, J., & Clegg, J. (Eds), Language and Social Disadvantage. London: Wiley.
- Hasson, N. and Joffe, V.L. (2007). The case for dynamic assessment in speech and language therapy. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 23, 1, 1-17.
- Joffe, V.L. and Varlokosta, S. (2006). Syntactic Abilities in Williams Syndrome: How intact is 'intact'? In Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and research workshop on experimental linguistics, A. Botinis (Ed.), (pp. 28-30). August 2006, Athens, Greece.
- Joffe, V.L. and Varlokosta, S. (2007). Language abilities in William Syndrome: Exploring comprehension, production and repetition. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 9, 2, 1-13.
- Joffe, V.L., Cain, K. and Maric, N. (2007). Comprehension problems in children with specific language impairment: does mental imagery training help? International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 42, 6, 648-664.
- Joffe, V.L. and Pring, T. (in press). Children with phonological problems: A survey of clinical practice. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
- Joffe, V.L. and Varlokosta, S. (2007). Patterns of Syntactic Development in Children with Williams Syndrome and Down's Syndrome: Evidence from Passives and Wh-questions. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21, 9, 705-727.