Author Archives: Avril Nicoll
Contact a Family Directory lists information on 430 disabilities and health conditions
I still remember the first time I heard about autism, when a parent came to talk to our Guide Company over 30 years ago. As a new graduate, I read up on Neurofibromatosis, which affected one of my young clients. A few … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, Books, journals and articles, CPD, Craniofacial, Deafness, Learning disability, Resources, Speech and language development, Voluntary organisations
Tagged 430 disabilities and health conditions, autism, CHARGE syndrome, Contact a Family, diagnosis, Directory, disabled children, Dravet Syndrome, Fragile X, Fragile X Society, Neurofibromatosis, speech and language therapists, UK support groups, Wolfram Syndrome
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Better Communication Research Programme needs input from practising therapists
What interventions do you offer children with speech, language and communication needs, and what outcomes are you looking for? The Better Communication Research Programme team is looking for speech and language therapists to respond to a survey about practice. The closing … Continue reading
Posted in Autism, CPD, Deafness, Phonetics / phonology, Professional standards, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy, Stammering
Tagged Bercow Review, Better Communication Research Programme, communication, database, effectiveness, efficiency, evidence, intervention, language, needs, outcomes, practice, speech, Sue Roulstone, survey, Systematic Review, Yvonne Wren
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Winter 10 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice on its way
Usually the Winter issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice goes out before the weather has really started to bite – but not this year! Winter 10 was posted from the mailing house in Lewes yesterday to UK and … Continue reading
‘Hello’ to the National Year of Communication
Tsars, supremos, working parties, interdepartmental committees, royal commissions – it's easy for 'Yes, Prime Minister' (Gielgud Theatre, London) to be cynical. While the playwrights have a point, I had just come from a Communication Trust reception at the House of Commons which … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Autism, Conferences, Speech and language development, Stammering, Voluntary organisations
Tagged Anita Kerwin-Nye, Asperger's syndrome, autism, coaltion, Communication Champion, dyslexia, hello, House of Commons, Jean Gross, Mike Kennard, national year of communication, Robert Buckland, Sarah Teather, Signalong, specific language impairment, Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, speech language and communication needs, The Communication Trust
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Making a succinct case for speech and language therapy
Last week I heard Mike Inglis, the newly appointed Governor of Polmont Young Offenders Institution, make a succinct case for speech and language therapy. Mike was speaking at a Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) study day on effectiveness … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, CPD, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged access, alcohol dependency, anger management, communication, drug dependency, effectiveness, efficiency, employability, Eryl Evans, Governor, Kamini Gadhok, Mike Inglis, Paul Carding, Polmont, RCSLT, reduce re-offending, Richard Simpson, Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists, sex offending, speech and language therapy, telemedicine, training programmes, videoconferencing, Young Offenders
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Blu-Tack and speech and language therapy
Suggesting ways to make learning fun, speech and language therapist Priya Desai says that blu-tack is "to this day a clear favourite of all the children I have worked with". The clever marketing people at blu-tack use their website to collate … Continue reading
Sharing good practice and giving voice to people with speech, language, communication and swallowing needs
Being honest, I wasn't too sure when I read the programme for the RCSLT Scotland day on 26th August that I would particularly enjoy it, other than as an all too rare opportunity to catch up with colleagues in person. How wrong could I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, Conferences, CPD, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged Down Syndrome, drama, evidence, free article, Galina, Gerda Stevenson, Giving Voice, RCSLT, Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists, Scotland, storytelling, user involvement
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Voice banking for people with degenerative diseases
Radio 4's Word of Mouth this week interviewed Laurence Brewer. Laurence has Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and is in the process of banking his voice to create his unique synthesised version for future use. Laurence says that, although the idea of voice … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Parkinson's disease, Phonetics / phonology, Resources, Speech and Language Therapy, Voice
Tagged Chris Ledgard, Laurence Brewer, MND, ModelTalker, motor neurone disease, Radio 4, Shelley Trower, speech and language therapists, speech patterns, speech synthesis software, synthesised voice, Tim Bunnell, Tony Crimlisk, voice banking, Word of Mouth
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Copyright and the Publishers Licensing Society
When you photocopy an article or book chapter, or cut and paste sections or download pictures from a website, are you infringing copyright? As with everything, "it depends". Many organisations, including the NHS and schools, pay the Copyright Licensing Agency a negotiated amount to … Continue reading
Free conversing with Sharynne McLeod article now available
Being a speech-language pathologist herself, internationally renowned educator, researcher and editor Sharynne McLeod knows how much our profession likes to talk. During a study day in Bristol in July (‘Speech Sound Disorders in Children – Seminar for SLTs’), Sharynne made … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, Conferences, CPD, Overseas, Phonetics / phonology, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and language development, Speech and Language Therapy, Writing for publication
Tagged free article, polysyllabic words, Sharynne McLeod, speech language pathologist, speech sound disorders
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