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So within moments of walking into the family home we’re ushered up a glass staircase to the 3rd floor to a humongous lounge area where, I kid you not, the table is covered in caviar; bottles of vodka and shot glasses! Making our apologies we persuade our hosts it’s...

I must warn my current readership of one (who yes may not return!) that this blog won’t be chronological in form. A wonderful attribute of my ADHD is that my mind jumps from vibrant memory to memory all by itself; for me this often based on random sensory triggers....

It was an early Sunday morning when the enquiry came in “SLT assessment needed today, report needed by tomorrow as flying“. I rang the number and the gentleman who answered explained his child was 6 and they were in London until tomorrow evening when they’d be flying...

I wrote an anonymous SLT blog last year about my experiences working internationally. Apologies to those readers who were familiar with my previous one but I’m going to share a few of the posts on here too as it’s part of my ‘story’. My First Royal Family (first...

After inspiration from Libby Hill and Gary Vee I’ve taken to creating tongue-in-cheek Speech Therapy memes, I’ll mainly post them on my Instagram page @wadetherapy but here’s the first few! Keep an eye on my Instagram page for more...

I hate mud. I hate mess. I like to keep my car clean. I don’t like washing my jeans or my coat. If there’s mud on my hands I like to use alcohol sanitiser immediately. As a result of the above my favourite place to take the kids is an...

As an ex employer of 30+ full time Speech & Language Therapists I was proud of the team's positive morale and without a doubt I knew I was "liked" by the team. I would regularly receive heart-felt emails from my employees thanking me for the opportunities my service...

One question / comment that I can guarantee will be implicitly uttered or explicitly muttered is “of course he’s saying that, parents paid him”. Now quite frankly this gets my goat and I’ll set out my reasons why in this blog post. Some quick facts about SLTs in the...

I was tagged in the above post yesterday and whilst the info if pretty sparse it got me thinking. As you may know I have a 4 year old too and whilst he is neurotypical the principles for engaging with him socially and having a conversation are similar. Imagine you’re...

Okay so I’m very good at giving practical, evidence driven, advice to the families that I work with and I’m a child development information fiend HOWEVER and I must admit that I don’t always practise what I preach. It’s easy as parents in a social media rife era to...

I’ve been asked by a parent to briefly cover this topic and so here goes... When we think about Speech, Language and Communication (SLC) unless you’ve been asked to attend parent / career training by your local SLT team then the terminology us clinicians take for...

Following on from my previous blog on this topic I’ll now briefly discuss one of the assessment tools I use and why. When assessing a child, no matter what the diagnosis, I personally feel that it is helpful to be able to compare them with their typically developing...