Phonetic Transcription in Clinical Practice

Dr Sarah White is a paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, and Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University.

Sarah graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA (hons) in Linguistics and Phonetics, and qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist from Leeds Metropolitan University (now Leeds Beckett University) in 2007. She later completed a Masters degree at the University of Sheffield in Language and Communication Impairment in Children whilst working as a Speech and Language Therapist. Her PhD was completed in 2026 at Leeds Beckett University.

Sarah worked in paediatric Speech and Language Therapy in the NHS for 11 years, in a variety of specialisms including Developmental Language Disorder, Speech Sound Disorder, stammering and school-aged autism assessment. She continues to carry out clinical work in autism assessment alongside her lecturing post.

Her talk will be of great interest to anyone interested in phonetics, language disorders and language acquisition.

All welcome!