🔓🆓Cleft palate is not a neuromuscular impairment. The outmoded notion of "strengthening" the soft palate is costly in time & 🤑money. Non-speech exercises neither improve speech nor address structural differences. leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/202… 👍spot-on, The ASHA Leader ASHA Journals

And now here I am in July! I am currently going full steam ahead with data collection for my MSc research project! This week I found out that I passed all my exams, including my clinical viva! 😃 just the dissertation left until I qualify - exciting times ahead! 11/11 #slt2b

Check out our new podcast episode below (hosted by me!!). This episode brings together my two committee positions with UCL Giving Voice and CLEFT to provide a very interesting discussion with Marie! #mySLTday #SLT2B

🎉 Happy Makaton International Awareness Day! 🎉 Today we celebrate the incredible power of Makaton and the importance of inclusive communication. Join us in celebrating today! Share your Makaton moments and stories using #MakatonAwareness ❤️🌍

Join us on Nov 12th for a morning of computers in therapy #SLT goodness! Hear from: Dr Gillian West about the NELI - Nuffield Early Language Intervention online early language intervention trial. Daisy Clay from Smartbox about AAC grid sets for people with aphasia. Tickets £5 tinyurl.com/CITCENNov2024

Have you ever noticed how your speech changes around different accents? This fascinating blog explores new research from UCL Psych & Lang Sci's Prof C McGettigan and others on how the voices around us shape our own speech! bit.ly/4g5UOpt

MRes dissertation submitted ✅ Celebratory evening seaside walk 🥳 Big thanks to everyone who has supported me, especially my amazing supervisors Better Conversations Lab Sarah Northcott Looking forward to making an impact with my research

Power to you Shannon, you can do this! 💪 I remember being inspired by UCL Libraries that looked like that when writing my PhD 😉

Want an insight into the life of an #slt2b on our MSc course here UCL Language & Cognition? Read this🧵RCSLTLearn UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Brain Sciences

Today marks the start of #WorldAlzheimersMonth. During the month we'll be sharing @UCL's world-leading research into dementia prevention, care & cure through our research stories. #UCLDementia Read our dementia research stories: bit.ly/3z1Nnir

More people need to know about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)! Retweet if you agree. Join us on #DLDday, when together with RADLDcampaign and many around the world we'll be 'speaking up for DLD.'

🎙️🎥 Exciting news! Our new episode on co-produced #dementia research is live. Check it out today! Mike Parish Rosie Ashworth Barbora Silarova Dr Anna Volkmer #coproduction 👉 pod.fo/e/2647ba

I'm excited to announce that the N-CoDe lab and I have moved to UCL Language & Cognition UCL Psych & Lang Sci today. It's been a wonderful 5+ years at Royal Holloway Psychology . I'm now looking forward to the next adventure!

Welcome back to #slt2b moving into year 2 of the course! Learning abt adul speech, language, cognitive & swallowing difficulties, evidence based #SLT practice & services. In a year, approx half will already have jobs 👍 #UCL_SLT Kirsty Catling Janet Collier RCSLTLearn UCL Psych & Lang Sci

And we’re back! ✏️ #SLT2B #mySLTday

We are officially counting down to Welcome Week 2024! Who is excited? 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ 💬 We'll be doing a Q&A on Instagram (@studentsunionucl) this Wednesday about how to find your people, and you can check out our guide too 🔽 studentsunionucl.org/articles/how-u…

In August, I attended a summer crash course on paediatric #dysphagia by Savannah Senior and Chelsea, covering anatomy, physiology, intervention, assessment, and more. This has deepened my understanding of swallowing phases, intervention hierarchy, and assessments for complex cases!

What an inspiration for our #slt2b to be taught by Anna Anna Sowerbutts Get Hackney Talking Congratulations! 🎉🎉