Former NQP Speech & Language Therapist | @NDSLTUK Co-Chair | Views are my own! ✨
Joined August 2020
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Here’s our free recorded webinar for practitioners about Adults with Developmental Language Disorder 🖥️ for #DLD day
An under-recognised condition in adults, who need adapted approaches to communication and therapies. @NAPLIC @RADLDcam @RCSLT @rcpsych
m.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZR64…
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Does anyone know of ways we can offer support to adults with selective mutism and ASD with grief and processing. In this instance 2 young adults who are struggling with the loss of Liam Payne. @FindTheirVoices @national_sm_cen @smutismhelp @LondonSMCEN #selectivemutism #Autism
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Our new guidance on Neurodivergence within the workforce is now available!
Drafted by SLTs with lived experience, it provides information and tools to directly support ND SLTs in the workforce and help colleagues create environments where they can thrive
rcslt.org/news/new-guidance-…
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
8 Oct 2024
⭐️⭐️BIG NEWS⭐️⭐️
We’ve worked 18 months on these Guidelines that have been published online today. So proud of all the work of everyone involved and members of @NDSLTUK 🎉 Well done everyone, including
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
11 Jul 2024
Brilliant practical examples 👇🏽👇🏾 @RCSLT
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
2 Jul 2024
Check out this fantastic resource developed by @Christos_lab from @UniRdg_CeLM:
MultiPiC - The Multilingual Picture Database
research.reading.ac.uk/celm/…
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
27 Jun 2024
Check your inboxes for the June edition of the network newsletter, including a special link to vote for the new network committee members! 📩
And catch up with our June event, the presentation from @SeonaidSlt - all about being a dyspraxic SLT!
youtu.be/aCayRmOInXA
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
26 Jun 2024
SLT working in Stroke? What are your thoughts on building a UK network for Stroke SLTs? Maybe you are already part of something? If you haven’t already please complete this survey, pls do 🙏@RCSLT forms.office.com/Pages/Respo…
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
21 Jun 2024
So proud to announce that I'm finally a "published" author! Read our paper on the reliability trials of the MDT stroke TOMs- a holistic stroke outcome measure I developed with Professor Pam Enderby (yes, I'm incredibly lucky!)
#MDTStrokeTOMs
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17 Jun 2024
Prior to today you would NEVER find me singing infront of people (apart from karaoke with few close friends). I never thought I'd use this set of skills at work, but there we go! #MySLTday #ReluctantSinger
ALT Man in street holding sign that says "will sing for patient engagement"
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
17 May 2024
Exciting news! Today marks the launch of "Thinking Ahead" podcast series. Join me on this incredible journey as I share my personal journey living with a serious brain injury thinkingahead.uk #thinkingahead #braininjury #podcast
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
24 May 2024
Easy read of date deadlines for registering to vote etc. #generalelection
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
19 May 2024
Any male speech and language therapists out there willing to volunteer time to deliver a careers talk at a boys school in Kent??
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15 May 2024
RT @amer_meriem: Last plea to share and complete the survey 👇🏼🙏🏼
We’ve had some really interesting responses and discussions with SLTs on o…
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
13 May 2024
📣 We're really pleased to have just sent our first email, as part of the ND Allies newsletter:
mailchi.mp/2f3165c010a4/ka8n…
📝 We want our community to inform our content, so please leave your views on what you'd like to learn, or others to learn about:
padlet.com/ndsltuk/what-do-y…
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Ahead of Dementia Awareness Week, we have published new guidance, resources and a position paper to support SLTs working with people with dementia. The guidance highlights best practice, provides practical guidance and signposts to other resources.
🔗 rcslt.info/dementiaguidance
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
2 May 2024
facebook.com/share/QMScbpbUK… we’ve made a Facebook group for posting 💓
1 May 2024
1/? This is just an idea, I know not everyone is signed up to ASTLIP because maybe they aren’t fully independent or they just want a bit of work on the side. I know I’m not a recruitment firm or a matching service but I hate people not having the support they need ⬇️
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Laura (she/her) retweeted
29 Apr 2024
Addressing anti-racism and neurodiversity affirming practices is crucial, but it requires first acknowledging and excavating the deep-seated problems within speech and language therapy. Listen to this Podcast episode to hear me speak on this!!! 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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