Please share with your team members, would be great to have a representation across the UK West Midlands Speech & Language Therapy ASLTIP Professor Helen Stringer Pamela Snow Speech & Language Therapy at CLCH London Speech CEN Engage with Developmental Language Disorder The DLD Project Stephen Parsons SLT Worcestershire Midlands SSD CEN London DLD CEN

When we tell individuals to abandon their own way of languaging, we're essentially asking them to forsake their connections to the very people and places that have shaped their identity.

whether u like it or not, politics form part of your identity personally/professionally. its privilege to think otherwise. not allowing spaces to process political impact or express oneself is SILENCING - y’all love to pick and choose ur social justice when it’s trendy n suits u!

This is a British surgeon. Read that again.. A British surgeon. How do we turn a blind eye and remain silent?

I #homeeducate my kids and I always ask them what they want to learn about. My 8 yo son has asked to learn about why there are different languages in the world. Any resources/books about origin of language and language evolution suitable for kids? #linguist #linguist ics #LANGUAGE

My first in person presentation in about 10 years! Speaking on supporting autistic children to narrate at the Charlotte Mason Institute centenary conference in Ambleside last week. #homeeducationuk #homeschool

I recorded a #podcast with Weronika Ozpolat about learning #languages as part of your #homeschool adventures, and how parents can learn alongside too. Have a listen on any podcast provider, or click the link below for the Spotify UK & Ireland link! #multilingual 🎧

open.spotify.com/episode/5RlYJy…

Meet Daniel Jillings (Daniel Jillings) ⬇️

His dream of a British Sign Language GCSE is one step closer to coming true - and you can help by taking part in our consultation.

Find out more: ow.ly/X7hi50OPCGn

A must-read for all speech and language therapists RCSLT 💙 RCSLT 💙Learn RCSLT 💙policy RCSLT 💙Research NAPLIC Moor House Research & Training Institute Speech and Language UK Speech & Language Link

'With one in four NHS speech therapist jobs now vacant & speech delay on the rise, many parents are waiting years to access the support their child needs,' reports Grazia UK: graziadaily.co.uk/life/parenting… Nick Hewer SeanPert Irma Donaldson Steve Jamieson

A aged 7: highlighting the importance & benefit of translanguaging in the classroom

“ my teacher lets us speak our languages in class, it makes learning SO fun Because you can say old things/words in new ways”

👍Inclusion requires flexibility!
👍If you can’t learn at school, we’ll help you learn elsewhere!
👍Our young people are more than test scores!

Do schools need to make adjustments to meet the multiple different needs of children? I say Yes! (and so does Missing The Mark) 1/

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK are failing Autistic young people.

They are turning away Autistic children because of no other reason than their Autistic identity.

Think about it. Autistic children are more likely to experience trauma and mental…

Adrian Bethune MCCT The erosion of play in schools is one of the tragedies of our generation, in my humble opinion.

We recommend you attend this public lecture by Professor Sharynne McLeod: 'Children should be seen AND heard: The importance of communication so children can thrive'

Thurs 20th April 6pm AEST
ONLINE or in Bathurst

FREE: go.csu.edu.au/3MBE6lv
Charles Sturt University Royal Society of NSW

‘Listening to book language therefore provides exposure to vocabulary that is quantitatively & qualitatively different from that experienced via day-to-day conversation’

Thank you Teresa Cremin for the reminder of this brilliant open-access article. 📚

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

📣CALLING ALL SLTs📣
For my MSc dissertation I am researching SLT’s confidence and training in working with bilinguals.
I would be very grateful for anyone to complete this questionnaire. forms.office.com/e/3U9bphEfCc SLTea Time SLTs of Colour RCSLTResearch #bilingualism #slt

teachers in England are instructed by the government to be 'politically impartial' whilst also being instructed by the government to teach a curriculum rooted in celebratory, colonially-muted, white-washed narratives of British history, language, arts and literature 🙃

Mini linguistics lesson:

1) bilingualism is not double monolingualism
2) standard language is invented, not natural
3) no one is accentless