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Parents' expereinces and expectations of SLT services for autistic children in Munster
Episode 1
Thursday, 5 February, 2026

In this episode we speak to the 2024 winners of the IASLT Postgraduate Research Award for submissions to the IASLT journal Advances in Communication and Swallowing. David O'Shea and Dr Dominika Lisiecka worked on this paper called: Speech and language therapy services for autistic children in Munster: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of parental experiences and expectations” . This work was based on David’s MSc that was supervised by Dominika and Dr Patrick McGarty at Munster Technological University, Kerry Campus.David is the Practice Manager Kerry Speech and Language Therapy Clinic in Tralee, Co. Kerry. and Dominika is the Clinical Director at the clinic where they both work as Senior SLTS, with a mixed caseload of children and adults.