Show Notes
Today we are talking to Aoife O’Shea, Senior Speech & Language Therapist working with Happy Talk in Cork, and the 2023 winner of the Speech and Language Therapy Service Excellence Award. Aoife was nominated as she has developed relationships, inspired confidence and skill and brought so much joy to the people that she works with, while managing to carry out research, present at conferences, deliver Happy talk training to SLTs across the country. Today we are going to talk about Aoife’s career to date and her involvement with Happy Talk and also to hear about the exciting future plans for the recent Health Research Board grant to complete a randomised control trial on Happy Talk across the Country. For more on Happy Talk see https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/1/lho/corknorthlee/therapy/happy-talk/
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