by chris | Jan 16, 2020 | South Wales Speech Therapy
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...
by chris | Jan 15, 2020 | South Wales Speech Therapy
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...
by chris | Jan 12, 2020 | South Wales Speech Therapy
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...
by chris | Jan 8, 2020 | South Wales Speech Therapy
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...
by chris | Jan 5, 2020 | South Wales Speech Therapy
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...
by chris | Jan 2, 2020 | South Wales Speech Therapy
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...
