Elizabeth and I were chatting about all the little things that happen in everyday life because we’re speech therapists. If you are a speech therapist, I wonder if you recognise any of these?…. You know you’re a speech therapist when…. You are in the supermarket and instead of pulling your purse out of your handbag, […]
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5 things I wish I had known as an ...
Helen recently found this article from the Dabbling Speechie. Felice wrote about 5 mistakes you make in your first year. So we thought we would continue this idea and think of the 5 things we wished we had known when starting work as a speech and language therapist. We both started work for the NHS. […]
What formal assessments don’t tell y...
I remember sitting in my university’s library, reading assessment manuals before clinical placements. We tried to work out which pictures went with which sentences and how to score them and which assessment was best for the area you needed to assess. We spent ages working through them all! Once I had qualified and started working, […]
Why speech therapists should use social med...
I think almost everyone knows what social media is these days! And if you don’t, then you’re unlikely to be reading this post!.. However, you may just be using social media for personal stuff and not for speech therapy. Many speech therapists I meet don’t realise how useful it can be for liaising with colleagues, […]
10 tips for using an iPad in therapy sessio...
The use of technology with children can be a little controversial. But love it or hate it, you can’t escape technology in one form or another nowadays. For most children, touchscreens are rather captivating. It does amuse me when you see a toddler walk up to a TV screen and prod and poke it, then […]