Helen and I were thrilled when Sue O’Malley, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist offered to write a post about Semantic feature analysis. It isn’t something I have used ….yet, but it looks really useful and I will be trying this soon! You can find out more about Sue on her website www.chattertutor.co.uk. Here is her […]
This is a rather different post from usual today. People often ask us to post more about running an independent speech therapy practise. This post is about a very specific but very important thing many independent SLTs are dealing with at the moment, alongside all other businesses in the EU – GDPR. This post contains […]
Helen and I love finding new games. It helps to keep the children motivated and it also means we don’t have to play pop up pirate 10 times a day! It can be tricky to find games for older children so I thought I would tell you about a few new finds. Wonky blocks This […]
I didn’t think that would work! Sometimes children are in and out of therapy within a few weeks. However, other times, I can be seeing a child for a long time (years). They (naturally) tend to get a bit bored and I am constantly on the look out for new games and ideas to keep […]
I have been to some great training courses in person over the years that I have been a speech therapist. There is something really great about attending a course in person – you get totally immersed in the topic with no distractions, and you get to discuss the material with fellow attendees and with the […]
What tools do you really need when you are working as a speech and language therapist? We have written before about resources, games and assessment, but what are the other go-to things we use day in and day out? These are the bits you find out about along the way, and that I find myself […]
When I was a newly qualified therapist, there was so much to think about whenever I assessed a child – which assessment to use, transcribing speech correctly, asking the right questions in the case history, making the right decision about what to do next!… But there is one aspect of doing an assessment which is […]
Both Helen and I started our careers in the NHS before moving to independent practise. It was after finishing my maternity leave, that I started to work independently as well. Although being in charge of the money aspect was always a little worrying, the flexibility that it offers a working parent is great. You can read more […]
In today’s blog post we’re welcoming a guest contributor, Gemma Moore. Gemma works for the NHS in Portsmouth and is a specialist in hearing impairment. Gemma and I have written this post together. There are various reasons why more than one therapist may end up working with a child. We’re not going to go into […]
Last week Helen wrote about some of the funny things that can happen when you are a speech therapist. You can read that post here. Whilst we were discussing last week’s post we also thought about some of the other ways our job impacts us as people. Now, I just want to make it […]
