Merle Mahon

Status:	Senior Lecturer
Address:	Room 207, Chandler House, UCL, Wakefield Street, London
Phone:	+ 44 (0) 20 7679 4036
Email:	merle.mahon@ucl.ac.uk
Home page:	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/dev-sci...
Primary Dept.:	Developmental Science
Secondary Dept.:	EP
Interests:	Interaction and spoken language development in deaf children; deaf and hearing children for whom English is an additional language; Conversation Analysis methodology.

Research Projects

• A longitudinal study to investigate the development of spoken English by deaf children from families where English is an additional language (2008)
  This study is an investigation of how deaf children develop spoken English skills in interactions with their teachers and how the teachers structure their conversations with the children in order to 'promote language development'. 29 children are taking part in the study (11 deaf EAL children; 12 deaf children from homes where English is the first language and 6 hearing children, 3 from each language group), as well as six teachers and one teaching assistant. Conversation analysis procedures (Hutchby & Wooffitt 1998) are used to examine video-taped one-to-one interactions, recorded at regular intervals during the first two years in school. The children’s performance on assessments of speech and language, their audiological profiles and other background factors are considered.
• A UCL Video Data Archive for Human Communication (2007-2008)

Taught Courses

• SPSC3001 Hearing Sciences, Audiology and Speech Perception
• HCSCGS16 Introduction to Speech, Hearing and Audiology
• HCSCRS02 Research Methods in Primary Care (SLT)

Selected Publications

2013

• Vickers, D. A., Backus, B. C., MacDonald, N. K., Rostamzadeh, N. K., Marriage, J. E., Mahon, M. (2013). Using Personal Response Systems to Assess Speech Perception Within the Classroom: An Approach to Determine the Efficacy of Sound Field Amplification in Primary School Classrooms.

2012

• Edwards, L., Hill, T., Mahon, M. (2012). Quality of life in children and adolescents with cochlear implants and additional needs. International Journal of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology 76(6), 851-857
• Mahon, M., Davis, A. (2012). Communicating with deaf children from families where English is an additional language. British Association of Teachers of the Deaf Magazine. , 22-24

2011

• Mahon, H. M., Adam, R. (2011). Making the most of language. British Association of the Teachers of the Deaf Magazine (January), 34-35 UK
• Mahon, M., Vickers, D., McCarthy, K., Barker, R., Merritt, R., Szagun, G., Mann, W., Rajput, K. (2011). Cochlear-implanted children from homes where English is an additional language: findings from a recent audit in one London centre. Cochlear Implants International 12(2), 105-113 doi:10.1179/146701010X486552. Publisher URL

2010

• Cline, T., Mahon, M. (2010). Deafness in a multilingual society: A review of research for practice. Educational and Child Psychology 47(2), 41-49 Publisher URL
• Radford, J., Mahon, M. (2010). Multi-modal participation in storybook sharing. In Gardner, H., Forrester, M. (Eds.). Analysing Interactions in Childhood: insights from conversation analysis. ( pp.209-226). Chichester, U.K. Wiley Blackwell.
• Worsfold, S., Mahon, M., Yuen, H. M., Kennedy, C. K. (2010). Narrative skills following early confirmation of permanent childhood hearing impairment. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (52: 10), 922-928 UK

2009

• Mahon, M. (2009). The emergence of multi-word turns in English in interactions between a deaf child and his specialist teacher. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 23(8), 611-629

2008

• Best, W., Maxim, J., Mahon, M., Vance, M. (2008). Building research capacity: the development of a professional doctorate programme in speech and language therapy. Bulletin of the College of Speech and Language Therapists , 20-
• Radford, J., Mahon, M. (2008). Collaboration between health and education professionals in providing interventions for children who have language and communication needs. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 24(2), 127-129

2007

• Mahon, M. (2007). Early communication: language learning with deaf children with EAL in the early years. BATOD Magazine (Nov), 8-9

2006

• Mahon, M., Crutchley, A. (2006). Performance of typically-developing school-age children with English as an additional language on the British Picture Vocabulary Scales II. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 22(3), 333-351 doi:10.1191/0265659006ct311xx.
• Radford, J., Ireson, J., Mahon, M. (2006). Triadic Dialogue in Oral Communication Tasks: What are the Implications for Language Learning? Language and Education 20(3), 191-210 Author URL

2003

• Mahon, M., Crutchley, A., Quinn, T. (Eds.) (2003). New directions in the assessment of bilingual children. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 19(3), 237-244 London doi:10.1191/0265659003ct253ed.
• Mahon, M. (2003). Conversations with young deaf children in families where English is an additional language. In Gallaway, C., Young, S. A. (Eds.). Deafness and Education in the UK: Research Perspectives ( pp.35-53). London Wiley.

2002

• Moorey, M., Mahon, M. (2002). Recognizing hearing problems. In Kersner, M., Wright, J. (Eds.). How to manage communication problems in young children (3rd ed. ). London David Fulton Publishers Ltd.
• Ridley, J., Radford, J., Mahon, M. (2002). How do teachers manage topic and repair? Child Language Teaching and Therapy 18(1), 43-58 doi:10.1191/0265659002ct226oa.

1996

• Bellman, S., Mahon, M. A. T., E, (1996). Evaluation of the E2L Toy Test as a screening procedure in clinical practice. British Journal of Audiology 30, 286-298 Author URL
• Mahon, M., Kersner, M. A. N., S, (1996). A survey into speech and language therapy services for children with communication problems in Zimbabwe. Social Sciences in Health 2(3), 137-146

Current PhD Students

• Janet Wood

Completed PhD Students

• Steven Bloch
  Beyond (un)intelligibility: a conversation analysis of troubles and repair in acquired dysarthria and communication aid use (July 2006)

(Possibly incomplete list)