Abigail Levin

Overview

Abigail is a Speech and Language therapist who trained at UCL and graduated in 1991. Her area of clinical interest and expertise is children with speech and language disorders. Abigail has worked within various PCTs in the Greater London area. She operated as clinical lead for speech and language therapy to secondary schools before joining City University in 2003. She continues to be involved in research collaboration within the university and externally with London colleagues.

Abigail is currently the Director of Professional Education within the department and has an overview of all aspects of professional studies including clinical placements for the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She collaborates closely with the Placements Management Partnership and University College London in order to facilitate a smooth placement experience for the students. Abigail is also Module Leader for Social Context module for BSc first year, and teaches child language processing. Additionally, she is responsible for supervision of student research projects at the BSc Honours and MSc levels.

Qualifications

• MA, Institute of Education, United Kingdom, Jan 1996
• BSc (Hons), University College London, United Kingdom, Jan 1991

Administrative roles

• Director of Professional Education
• Module Leader (Social Context)

Employment

• Speech and Language Therapist (working within a number of London NHS Trusts), National Health Service, 1992 – 2003

Memberships of committees

• CREST - Committee of Representatives of Education in Speech and Language Therapy

Memberships of professional organisations

• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
• HCPC

Awards

• . (2014) Health has got talent, Silver Award
• . (2013) Award to support innovative approaches to service user involvement in healthcare education and research
• . (2009) Pump priming: 'Cognitive Foundation of Verb Learning in Very Young Children',
• . (2006) Teaching and learning grant
• . (2005) Teaching and learning grant

Teaching

Leadership role:

Director of Professional Education

Undergraduate modules

SL1006 BSc1 professional studies
SL2006 BSc2 professional studies
SL3004 BSc3 professional studies
SL1004 BSc1 social context (module leader)
SL3002 BSc3 language sciences child language processing
SL3007 - BSc4 Research and Evidence based practice - Dissertation supervision

Postgraduate modules

SLM005 Professional studies
SLM008 PG2 language sciences - child language processing
APM002 - research and evidence based practice (dissertation supervision)

Research areas

- Evaluation of Interventions for Children with Language Impairments
- Child Language; Very Young Children's Abilities with Verbs and Syntax
- Clinical Education.

Reserch Centres

- DAIR (Developmental Assessment and Intervention Research Group)

Principal collaborators

- Lucy Dipper
- Tim Pring

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