by chris | Dec 15, 2019 | South Wales Speech Therapy
Ever since my days in the NHS I, like many others, have gone above and beyond for the children I work with and their families. When you have a huge caseload quite simply this is impossible as, even with absolute flexibility, there are a finite number of hours in each...
by chris | Nov 30, 2019 | South Wales Speech Therapy
I wrote and published my blog post on Recommending Direct Speech Therapy 2 days ago and have been knocked for six by the number of comments on my LinkedIn; Facebook page; Facebook groups I shared it in and on Instagram page. I have received zero negative comments...
by chris | Nov 30, 2019 | South Wales Speech Therapy
When I was a junior SLT in the NHS I was always given the “tribunal families” i.e. the families that had spent an arm and a leg on independent reports and legal fees in order to access the appropriate placement (school) and therapy provision (SLT / OT /...
by chris | Nov 1, 2019 | South Wales Speech Therapy
To show my gratitude to the university where I trained to be a Speech & Language Therapist (Leeds Met, Leeds Beckett) each year the SLT department and I run a Clinical Innovation Award. The ‘criteria’ we came up with were that the winning project...
by chris | Nov 1, 2019 | South Wales Speech Therapy
When a child is typically developing by the age of 3 they will be using 3-4+ word sentences to make requests; comment on interesting things they see; ask & answer questions and direct those around them. In direct contrast the nonverbal child with Autism at 3...