Speech and Language Therapist specialising in #selectivemutism #DLD #SSD and working in the #ADOS team 💬 Based in Lincolnshire. Own views.

Joined September 2017
Attention #SpeechTherapists Passing a message on: I have been asked to pass on news of the death of Dr Pamela Grunwell. After a long and distinguished career in linguistic sciences and speech pathology, she retired from De Montford University (England) in 2000
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📢 Calling all SLTs working with school-aged children. Please consider taking some time to complete this short survey on supporting children with literacy skills 📖✏️. shorturl.at/apZ46
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10. The petition link is here action.breastcancernow.org/e…
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Some people might be asking, Why is #speechtherapy so important? When you next open your mouth to speak, use your hands to gesture, text/tweet, remember that so many people cannot. Access to SLT is their lifeline. We need the government to #InvestInSLT petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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In December 2023, 72,185 children were waiting for speech and language therapy support. Over 21,000 were waiting 18+ weeks, with over 4,000 waiting a year or more. We need change. Please sign @MikeysWish_VDA's petition & ask the Govt to #InvestInSLT ⬇️ petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Only 30 signatures now to get us to 5,000 - half way to a Government response. 🎉 If you haven't already, would you please sign and share @MikeysWish_VDA #InvestInSLT petition? If you have signed, can you ask a family member, friend or work colleague to do the same? ✍🏿✍️✍🏼
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Absolutely heartbreaking for the families involved. IVF is gruelling, emotionally and physically draining, and overwhelming; let alone when something like this happens. My thoughts are with those affected.
Homerton Fertility Centre's licence suspended over 'significant concerns' bbc.in/48Rpnui
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9 years ago, I had a dream that every person who had lost a baby before 24 weeks gestation would be able to get an official government-issued certificate to formally acknowledge their loss, and today, those certificates are happening. Whatever the gestation, whether a parent has tragically lost their baby at one day into pregnancy or 23 weeks and six days, they can apply. Whether the loss happens at any point in the future or any point in the past, you can apply. No one will miss out; your loss, your pain, your grief are finally being recognised. To avoid the application site from crashing, we are asking people to form an orderly queue, and if the English are good at anything, it’s queuing. So to start with, if those who have had a loss since September 2018 can apply first, and the government will then open it up to everyone else as soon as possible, this does mean some of us (including me) need to be patient a little longer. To answer a few questions: You don’t need medical proof of a loss. This is for everyone, whatever type of loss they may have experienced, whether it be a loss from miscarriage, ectopic, molar, TFMR or for another reason. This certificate is for anyone who has lost a baby before 24 weeks gestation, whether the loss was today or 90 years ago. Your loss needs to have taken place in England, and you need to currently live in England to apply. We want to thank Dame Floella Benjamin @FloellaBenjamin for believing in us and our mission; your joining with us as a charity helped make this a reality. We would also like to thank all our ambassadors for joining their voices with ours to ensure we were heard. @SayingGoodbyeUK 6 years ago, Sam and I were asked to co-chair and author one of the world's first baby loss reviews for under 24 weeks gestation. We were tasked with looking into all clinical care and bereavement support, and part of that was also to bring in the new certification process. Last summer, we laid that report in Parliament, and the government accepted all 73 of its national recommendations. Today is a landmark day because one of those 73 is coming to pass - certificates are now here! We hope you are as excited as us; please help us spread the word. Here is the link: gov.uk/request-baby-loss-cer…
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Beth 🌸 retweeted
Two million children need speech and language therapy - The Times reports today.
Two million children need speech and language therapy thetimes.co.uk/article/8268f…
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Once again a report is highlighting how vital SLT is yet we are constantly underfunded. Early intervention services that have been shut down as a result of funding will have also had a significant impact
The Covid kids starting school unable to speak bbc.in/47Zh9QZ
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The Covid kids starting school unable to speak bbc.in/47SNdFP
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Quick trip to London to receive our #rcsltawards Giving Voice Award for our #SelectiveMutism service 🗣️💬
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Our #selectivemutism team have won a Giving Voice Award this year- we are very much looking forward to the awards event in October! ✨ @LincsCTherapy
Today's amazing Giving Voice Award winners for 2023 🏅include the @TheStrokeAssoc for their powerful campaign #WhenTheWordsAwayWent & a group of SLTs who did vital work looking at #longcovid Well done all! 👊@rcslt @SteveJamieson12 #RCSLTAwards #SLpeeps
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I have huge problems with the word 'resilience'. To me it means coping in a situation that doesn't feel natural, comfortable, safe. We might be 'trained, persuaded & rewarded' to be resilient, but this isn't our true nature. Energy is taken, if pushed too far, too long, we break
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The letters "ough" can be pronounced at least 8 different ways in English. How did that happen?!
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I'm so concerned about the #NHSCrisis that I wrote to my MP Philip Davies asking him to urge the government to act, particularly on social care. I thought the voters of #Bingley #Saltaire & #Shipley would like to read his response and I do hope they remember it at the next GE.
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Beth 🌸 retweeted
We are VERY excited to announce Developmental Language Disorder diagnosis modules are now online. Designed for professionals as a tool to reflect upon and change practice. #DevLangDis THANK YOU to all contributors. naplic.org.uk/diagnosing-dld…
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In preparation for this evening’s Xmas Eve @charliemackesy film, I’m revisiting this quote and thinking of all children out there who also wish to be welcomed, despite their silence #SelectiveMutism #
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Beth 🌸 retweeted
I was one of those two women, thanks @Toddpodd. I am furious and heartbroken by what I saw on Monday. Photos/video stills shared with parental permission. A thread 🧵 1/n
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