Category Archives: Resources
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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Off We Go! with Signed Stories
ITV’s Signed Stories have signed up Avril Webster, author of the Off We Go! series. You can see ‘Going to Buy Clothes’ being signed here. Avril’s inspiration for the series came from her son Stephen’s love of books. Stephen has … Continue reading
Going for a coffee – aids, prototypes and service developments for people with aphasia
Back in 2001, Speech & Language Therapy in Practice featured an article ‘Imprints of the mind’ about a group of people with aphasia from Dundee who had participated in an exciting research project ‘Expression’. Christine Kingsley (then Farrell), who lectures in Design at … Continue reading
Posted in Aphasia, Community settings, Resources, Service delivery, Voluntary organisations, Web/Tech
Tagged aphasia, aphasia awareness campaign, community settings, design for social inclusion, Dundee Speakability, hand held tools, i-phone apps, individual story, research project, talking wallet, training
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National Literacy Trust to survey young people’s attitudes to communication
The National Literacy Trust is looking for schools to participate in a survey to investigate young people’s attitudes towards speaking, listening and more general communication skills. The online survey will run from 14 June to 3 July 2010 and involve … Continue reading
Circle time opportunities for speech and language therapists
My sons' primary school had Circle Time guru Jenny Mosley running their in-service today. When volunteers were sought from the primary sixes and sevens I persuaded my older son to go in, albeit reluctantly. (He looked a bit skeptical when I … Continue reading
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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RHN Guide to artificial feeding for people with Huntington’s disease
The Spring 10 issue of Speech & Language Therapy in Practice is with the printer and should be mailed out to subscribers next week. One of the news items (p.2) is about a report on end-of-life nutrition strategy which has … Continue reading
Sandwell speech and language therapy on show
A new article, freely available on the speechmag website, aims to inspire speech and language therapy departments to consider taking part in trade exhibitions as exhibitors rather than visitors. In 'Sandwell on show', Jane Oates and Diana McQueen of Sandwell PCT … Continue reading
Talking Mats release ‘To see ourselves as others see us’ on Burns Night
Burns Night is an appropriate time for the Scotland-based Talking Mats group to launch its latest resource 'To see ourselves as others see us'. The line comes from a poem inspired by, of all things, the progress of a head louse over … Continue reading
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