Category Archives: Speech and Language Therapy
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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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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Caroline Bowen brings her 2 day speech sound disorders workshop to the UK
I can’t believe it was as long ago as 2002 that Australian speech-language pathologist Caroline Bowen compiled her top ten child speech resources for Speech & Language Therapy in Practice. I have “known” Caroline virtually for many years, and enjoy her humourous … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, CPD, Phonetics / phonology, Professional standards, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and language development, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged ACQ magazine, ASLTIP, Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice, Australian speech-language pathologist, Caroline Bowen, child speech resources, phonologicaltherapy listserv, speech sound disorders
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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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‘ASHA needs to actively enforce its code of ethics’ petition
The Chair of the British Stammering Association is urging people to join him in petitioning ASHA to prevent misleading claims that stammering is curable. Leys Geddes has been at the forefront of a UK campaign to ensure that people understand there is … Continue reading
SpeechQuest takes speech and language therapy online
The internet is now an integral part of our everyday lives. We take it for granted that if we want answers we will get them online. But virtual speech and language therapy as a form of service delivery? Could that help … 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
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