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Dr Anna van der Gaag is an independent speech and language therapist and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Community Based Sciences, University of Glasgow. She was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Strathclyde for 11 years and has been involved in teaching and research for more than 25 years. Her current research includes user involvement and therapy and service evaluation.

Anna has written and edited books and numerous research papers, including:

Communication and Adults with Learning Disabilities(1993) with Klara Dormandy

Communicating Quality Professional Standards for Speech and Language Therapists (Ed)(1996),

Clinical Guidelines by Consensus for Speech and Language Therapists (Ed) (1998)

Audit: a Manual for SLTs (1993) with Dot Reid and Karen Glass

A Talking Toolkit (1999) with Pauline McCartan, Anne Mcdade, Dot Reid and Sue Roulstone

SLT: Issues in Professional Practice (Eds) (2005) with Carolyn Anderson

CPD:A Toolkit for Speech and Language Therapists and Support Workers(2006).

Anna van der Gaag offers consultancy, training and research services to speech and language therapists and other health professionals in the following areas;

• therapy evaluation

• user involvement

• service review

• audit

• curriculum design

• e learning

•writing for publication

• planning cpd