Category Archives: Head & Neck
Voice banking to preserve the freedom of speech
More on voice banking, a subject I posted on a year ago when Laurence Brewer was interviewed for Radio 4’s Word of Mouth. This time there was a Scottish flavour to another Radio 4 programme ‘Giving the Critic Back His Voice’, … Continue reading
Posted in AAC, Ethics, Head & Neck, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Parkinson's disease, Phonetics / phonology, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy, Voice, Voluntary organisations
Tagged CALL Scotland, CereProc, Joanna Courtney, Karen Yuill, Laurence Brewer, Mike Arnott, ModelTalker, motor neurone disease, Roger Ebert, speech and language therapist, speech synethesis, text to speech, voice banking, Worster-Drought Syndrome
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‘Benefit finding’ and coping with head and neck cancer
ENT & Audiology News for Nov/Dec 2010 includes a summary review (p.132) of Morwenna White-Thomson's article 'How I support TEP closure: an open and shut case?' from the Autumn 10 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice. The Nov/Dec issue … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, Head & Neck, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged an open and shut case, benefit finding, coping strategies, ENT & Audiology News, head and neck cancer, health psychologist, Morwenna White-Thomson, New Zealand, Pinpoint Scotland, quality of life, Sandy Cavell, Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, TEP closure
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Autumn 10 issue now out!
The Autumn 10 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice was mailed on Friday. (My own copy hasn’t made it to Scotland yet, but I know some people got theirs as early as Saturday!) It includes: our new series … Continue reading
Posted in Aphasia, Books, journals and articles, Community settings, CPD, Ethics, Head & Neck, Professional standards, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and language development, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged adolescents, aphasia, chewing in cerebral palsy, community arts venue, complementary therapy, critical appraisal, education staff, indirect interaction techniques, intergroup contact, scaffolding, silent bilingual children, TEP closure, The Communication Toolkit, tracheoesophageal puncture, working outside the NHS
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Spring 10 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice out now
The courier has just been to take the authors' copies of the Spring 10 issue which means mailing is now complete. Spring 10 includes the first of a new ethics series considering everyday events which need to be on our … Continue reading
Posted in Aphasia, Books, journals and articles, Community settings, CPD, Head & Neck, Resources, Speech and language development, Speech and Language Therapy, Voice
Tagged adductor spasmodic dysphonia, attention and listening, cognitive therapy in dementia, community stroke teams, early years practitioners, East Kent Outcome System, ethics, Every Child a Talker, laryngectomy, mental state assessment, social networking, speech and language therapy, Talking Mats
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Holography as phonetics teaching resource
In the Winter 09 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, we report on the development of a student teaching resource which could become a useful tool for speech and language therapists. Pip Cornelius, a lecturer in phonetics and … Continue reading
Posted in Craniofacial, Head & Neck, Phonetics / phonology, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged holography, phonetics, phonology
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Kenyan laryngectomee workshop appeal
Speech & Language Therapy in Practice member Emma Shah has forwarded an appeal for funds from the Kenya Association of Laryngectomees to enable a unique residential workshop to take place in November/December. The organisation is looking for kes.220,000 (just under … Continue reading
Posted in Head & Neck, Overseas, Speech and Language Therapy, Voluntary organisations
Tagged Kenya, laryngectomee, laryngectomy
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