🌟 We're thrilled to receive this heartfelt review! 🌟

We recently had the privilege of working with this amazing family, and we're honored to have made a positive impact.

#CAYP #Psychology #5StarReview #Positive #Understanding #Professional

I was sectioned on a children’s mental health unit when I was 16. I was undiagnosed autistic. My daily meltdowns were interpreted as ‘hysterical attacks when she does not get her own way’. I was labelled with a personality disorder. And left traumatised. #Dispatches

Developmental Language Disorder is common, but only a small fraction of people with the condition have been diagnosed. This is a call to arms for Speech and Language Therapists #DevLangDis

Is 'change management' still relevant? No says Martha Edwards. It's essentially a set of tactics to make it easier to impose change on people & overcome resistance to change. Rather, we should be designing change with & around the people affected by it: medium.com/@mlhedwards/is…

RCSLT Members! Please read our latest news story in reaction to HCPC 's decision to significantly increase its membership fees: rcslt.org/news/disappoin…

Mary Meredith 🇺🇦 Anecdotally in Scotland, of those referred with anxiety related absence, 50% were diagnosed autistic. Many of the other 50% shared similar thinking styles, unmet sensory & communication support needs. We need a need a neurodevelopmental lens on this issue bit.ly/3RQv5px

We are proud to be running a practical course for parents following their child’s diagnosis of Autism. It's called 'What Next?'

For further information about the course please head to our website
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#ASD #autism #autism awareness #neurodiversity

This 👇

This is an enormous challenge and so important. I speak to young people and their families daily who are missing so much school and in many cases not accessing it at all.

Healios’ digital solution, CBT Bytesize, has been provisionally recommended by NICE for use within the NHS to treat children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety.

Learn more at the link below.

#NHS #MentalHealth

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67' - BEN HUGHES with a Zidane-like volley from 20-yards 😍

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Great Quality Improvement session with Speech & Language today, looking to assist our young people at communicating their needs and being better understood by those around them. Small changes make big differences! #QI #meetingneeds #GIRFEC Virtual School Team South Ayrshire

Just sent out interview questions ahead of job interviews at the end of the week.
Hoping this becomes standard practice to reduce the anxiety and stress around interviews.
We want the best person for the job, not the best at interviewing.
#Recruitment #CharityJobs #Interviews

My entire career has been dedicated to one single noble purpose, to get Bits N Pieces played on prime time telly. After tonight I can finally rest. ‘Scottish Fling’ episode two BBC2 9.30pm

Thousands of dedicated public servants worked to develop the plans known as ‘Operation Unicorn’ and when the time sadly came, ensure these plans were well implemented, so that Scotland could pay a fitting tribute to The Queen. My thanks to all of them - they did Her Majesty proud

Think we could all do with one of these!

When will we start talking about ‘retention’ rather than ‘recruitment’ in the NHS? 🙏

Finally, and this will rankle with many, let’s put specialisation in its box. A collection of specialists with referral routes between creates an ecosystem that is less than the sum of its parts. This is really expensive and ineffective. We need specialists. But 9/

Stop Telling Employees to Be Resilient

‘Resilience is useful when it comes to work. But, too often, it’s presented in a way that overlooks structural issues and instead encourages employees … to do so on their own, without disturbing their colleagues’
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“We don’t understand why more people aren’t coming back to the office…”

Ummmm… stop trying to bring 2019 back? It’s not happening.

Instead of fixed office days, try organising planned and purposeful in-person team events that foster a new culture fit for where we are now.