As we begin AAC Awareness Month I wanted to share one of my favorite picture books “More than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean” by Roz MacLean. youtu.be/j5-hOB3rsUo. It’s important to embrace *all* of the ways a person communicates. Communication is about connection.

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Today is #DLDDay! 🗣️ Learn how speech and language therapy supports children and adults with Developmental Language Disorder: Clinical info➡️rcslt.org/speech-and-lan… Factsheet➡️rcslt.org/wp-content/upl…

It’s Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day! People with DLD have difficulties understanding and using language for no known reason. DLD is a hidden disorder that impacts 1 in 14 people. The theme of #DLDday this year is “you can’t see DLD”.

Wishing a very Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating among our registrants, colleagues and communities! 🪔🌠 May this Festival of Lights bring happiness, prosperity and good health to you and your loved ones. ✨

Celebrating Black History Month Dietetic Apprentice, Hayley Samuels, recently spoke about her role with the Inpatient Dietetics team. "Being a black professional within the Trust has been empowering. For full article see: bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/latest-news/ce…

One of our therapists attended a 2 day course led by Maggie Lee Huckabee on the neurology behind comprehensive dysphagia assessment and rehab last week. A very jam packed but incredibly informative couple of days! Learning doesn’t stop when you graduate ✏️📚🧠 #CPD

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It's AAC awareness month! We use both high & low tech aids with our service users and have a specialist AAC team within our trust. It's great to see that some features are now ready built into our regular devices to be used straight away! 📱💻💬#AACawarenessmonth #AAC

9 months since the #InvestInSLT petition was debated in Parliament, we are calling on the UK Government to: 1. Use the budget to ensure sufficient resources for services 2. Bring forward its SLT Action Plan Read our statement in full: RCSLT 💙 Peter Just Stephen Kinnock

🎙️New podcast episode! We chat with Prof Bronwyn Hemsley & Dr Lucy Bryant about their review of interventions based on Gestalt Language Processing & Natural Language Acquisition. 🔍 Key findings 🧠 Review insights 💬 Future of SLT Listen now 👉rcslt.org/podcasts/ #SLPeeps

Headway offers online training focussing on a range of issues and effects of brain injury. We have CPD-certified courses for those living with a brain injury, their families and professionals working within the brain injury field. Find out more: buff.ly/6Tlqe8E

#WorldStrokeDay is a chance to highlight how speech and language therapy supports stroke survivors. Check RCSLT 💙 clinical info➡️ rcslt.org/speech-and-lan…