🌟May message of the month🌟

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Well done Charlotte! 🥳🥳🥳

🥳This is fantastic news for a Friday!
Well deserved recognition for a fabulous project that I tell anyone and everyone about! Help Kids Talk Lorraine Coulter Mabel and Sarah -

Now to keep going and get this project spread throughout NI!

And we also know that those living in poverty and more deprived areas are more likely to experience speech, language and communication issues when starting school….

We must do better!
Read our report here - rcslt.org/news/new-repor…

Have you ever wondered about what it's like being an #apprentice ? You can find out by reading our #FacesofSLT interview with Alia Aya Abdelal - one of the UK's first speech & language therapy apprentices: instagram.com/p/C6L75NMoKR6/…
#Apprenticeship

📢Another media interview today for Ruth talking about the Early Years Report and the rise in SLCN and the SLT workforce crisis on our hands! #MySLTDay RCSLT 💙 Ruth Sedgewick BBC Radio Foyle

Listen again at 34 minutes by clicking link below!

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📢Ruth spoke to UCB about the Early Years Report - increasing numbers of children with speech, language and communication needs and what RCSLT NI are calling for!
#MySLTDay

💜Listen back via the link below Ruth Sedgewick RCSLT 💙 Steve Jamieson

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🥳🥳🥳 Fantastic news to see this excellent program receiving the recognition they deserve! Well done Sarah, Mabel, Lorraine and the rest of the team 💖

mabel scullion Lorraine Coulter

Tom Sullivan explains the powerful coalition between professional bodies and 3rd sector organisations - #CommunityRehabilitationAlliance

Great to support Tom and the message around a #RightToRehab at the #ICIC24

Such an important report & another that our policy makers must sit up & take heed of.

85% increase in children waiting for speech and language appointments

Undiagnosed speech, language & communication needs can have have long term negative impacts on children’s daily lives

The #AHANI Awards 2024 are open for entry to AHPs & healthcare scientists across Northern Ireland!
Closing date: 19 July.
More info & to enter: ahawards.co.uk/ni24/
Department of Health Michelle Tennyson BSc MPA CF Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine Macmillan Cancer Support IBMSNI branch. Clinical Education Centre - CEC Business Services Organisation Public Health Agency Ulster University

Looking for a new challenge? Would you like to broaden your skills & experience, & help shape the future of the speech & language therapy profession at the same time? If so, one of these opportunities could be for you: rcslt.org/about-us/join-…… (Closing date, 9am on 10 May 2024)

Great to see the coverage from yesterday in print media today! #IrishNews #Newsletter

We must keep raising awareness of the ⬆️ needs of our children and the need to increase the number of #SLT training places at university starting this year! Robin Swann

RCSLT Northern Ireland @RCSLT

Lots of press interest in our Early Years report, thanks to Belfast News Letter for this piece: newsletter.co.uk/health/report-…

Thanks to everyone who supported the launch of our Early Years report yesterday.
In case you missed it, here is a piece from BBC NI News, featuring mum Emma and her gorgeous boy, animal-mad Henry:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

Children in NI wait longer for speech and language therapy than in the rest of the UK, a RCSLT Northern Ireland
report has found.

Aileen Moynagh has more

There's been an 85% surge in children on the waiting list for speech and language therapy appointments, from 2,444 kids in 2021 to 4,527 in 2023. belfastlive.co.uk/news/health/no…

North’s children face communication crisis over lack of speech and language therapists
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