Facilities and Resources

This suite of rooms comprises both group and individual treatment spaces. They're available for clinical placements and research activity for children with speech language difficulties and their families.

The suite includes:

• observation rooms with two-way mirrors and monitors allow for observation of live sessions by parents, carers and students
• closed-circuit recording in each treatment room to allow for constant supervision of students on placement
• fully monitored telehealth facilities
• high-quality recordings to enable students to reflect on and learn from their clinical experience on a week by week basis
• rooms are equipped for pre-school and school-age children with suitably sized furniture and therapy resources
• a large waiting room equipped with toys and books

The Tavistock Aphasia Centre is a physical part of our excellent facilities for students. It's also a centre of excellence in aphasia assessment and intervention.

The suite of rooms includes:

• individual and group treatment space
• a well-equipped resource and study room
• a bespoke computer suite
• a café
• closed-circuit recording in each treatment room to allow for constant supervision of students on placement
• fully monitored telehealth facilities
• high-quality recordings enable students to reflect on and learn from their clinical experience on a week by week basis

The rooms are well equipped for use by people with aphasia. They either attend clinic sessions or activity sessions here organised by North East Trust for Aphasia (NETA).

Find out more about the Tavistock Aphasia Centre as a centre of excellence, and its wider role.

The lab includes:

• networked computers equipped with specialist acoustic, speech and language analysis software to facilitate teaching, learning and research
• an interactive whiteboard and projection facilities to enable small group teaching and specialist training workshops
• headphone and microphone sets to allow individual work

Speech and language sciences students can access clinic recordings in this secure space and analyse speech and language samples to inform their treatment plans.

Research staff and students have access to cutting-edge analysis tools.

LingLab is a state of the art laboratory equipped with specialist software and hardware to support linguistics and phonetics research.

The phonetics space includes:

• equipment for ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI), electroglottography (EGG), electropalatography (EPG), nasometry, and airflow measurement
• an anechoic chamber with specialist recording equipment and microphones allows high-quality recordings of participants with display facilities for data elicitation. These can be controlled by a researcher from outside the chamber

The linguistics space houses computers with:

• software for audio-visual analysis (e.g. ELAN, MIMO, PRAAT, PHON, etc)
• eye-trackers for psycholinguistic research into reading and language processing

Visit the LingLab webpage for more information about our resources, which also include specialist proprietary software and licenses.

ilab:learn is a physical space for supporting and promoting the research, development and application of digital technologies.

Technologies located in the lab for use by staff and postgraduate research students include:  

• multi-touch and pen-based tabletops
• a Self-Organised Learning Environment (SOLE)
• mobile learning devices
• digital kitchens and apps for task-based language learning
• Video Enhanced Observation app

Resource Centre

Our Resource Centre is designed to complement the library. It houses some resources specifically of benefit to students of Education, Communication and Language Sciences and includes more than 20,000 books.

It also has:

• big books
• various subscriptions
• numeracy and literacy resources
• religious and historical artefacts
• science and geography resources
• Modern Foreign Language resources
• hand puppets
• recordings
• software

The resource centre has:

• 30 networked PCs
• printers and scanners
• interactive whiteboard
• photocopier
• digital cameras
• digital voice recorders
• Bee-Bots and Roamers
• digital movie creator cameras
• Talking Pens
• laminators
• stationery available for student use

We also have an online dissertation library.

We have three well-equipped science rooms. These provide those studying as trainee science teachers the opportunity to develop the necessary practical skills associated with effective science teaching. Practical work takes place in this dedicated safe environment, with peers and experienced science teachers. This develops confidence in carrying out demonstrations and leading practical work in a classroom environment, before putting these skills into action in classrooms while on school placement.