It’s that time of year, Happy Burns Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Maybe it'd help if we stopped talking vaguely about 'culture change', and instead spoke more openly about how we respond to anxiety.

The little plastic bags from lateral flow kits make perfect resource packets #mySLTday #upcycle

New! Down Syndrome Toolkit for Paediatric Speech and Language Therapists down-syndrome.org/en-gb/resource…
Provides evidence-based guidance to support services for children with Down syndrome. Hats off to the team at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust! RCSLT 💙

Job alert- Permanent band 6 & 7 posts within the CAMHS teams in Glasgow city HSCP working with children and young people. Check out job advert on NHS Scotland website. Closing date 2nd Feb. RCSLT Scotland

Thanks to staff from Cleveden Secondary, Rosshall Academy & St Roch's Secondary Learning Communities who came to our first EBSA Support and Development Groups, delivered with colleagues from Speech and Language Therapy and CAMHS. We look forward to seeing you again at next month’s sessions!

Looking for something new for 2022? Register for FREE Communication Access Training for individuals/organisations. Training lets you display the Communication Access symbol so people with communication needs can feel confident in accessing services. bit.ly/3qfHdnR

Well done mary glasgow 💜📚 🐶🚲🇪🇺 🏊‍♀️⛷ Children 1st on TV tonight talking about children and young people missing their developmental milestones during the pandemic. Concur It’s the impact health, charities, social care & education are seeing and trying to mitigate

Baby's brains are amazing!

Here are some interesting facts as to how we can help build healthy brains for better outcomes in later life 👇

2/2 “Respecting the need for private time to decompress after a long day of living in an alien culture and speaking a confusing language requires restful, quiet interludes for recalibration and peace of mind.”
GoodTherapy #autismawareness #autismallies

goodtherapy.org/blog/unique-ch…

Imagine being traumatised from the experience of nearly every single interaction with other people going wrong. Misunderstandings, misinterpretations, missed jokes, confused instructions, failed references, over and over and over again.

That's my experience of autism.

⭐️Job Alert⭐️ Our colleagues in Renfrewshire are looking for some new Specialist SLT’s ( band 6, various hours, permanent) to join their team. If you fancy a move to the Greater Glasgow area please check out the NHS website for more info. Closing date 28/1/22

Hi twitter. My sister Alice is still missing. Friends and family have been putting posters up around Edinburgh. Please share these images widely, we hope to jog someones memory. Thanks to everyone for the amazing support so far.

That moment when you’re reading your Christmas present, a book by one of your heroes, and you discover you got a mention… Cheers Doddie Weir OBE

Health is wealth.🧠🌱

Just want to say a huge thank you to University of Strathclyde for looking after my daughter. She was meant to be home for Christmas now, but has tested positive for covid and is isolating alone at uni. They have been wonderful, dropping off a care pack for her. Amazing gesture, thank you.

Get your little ones involved in gift wrapping – it’s the perfect opportunity to encourage vocabulary development! 🎁

✅You are face to face with your child and down at their level
✅You can talk about what you are doing
✅You can highlight and repeat any new words

Wow. This powerfully sums up why most therapy harms autistic people. The dominant model of therapy offered is verbally-mediated, failing those with communication difficulties particularly Selective Mutism. #autism #SLT #therapy #Neurodivergent
dralicenicholls.com/why-doesnt-sta…

Here’s an opportunity to take part in the conversation about psychological therapies and how they might meet needs of autistic people. What role does diagnosis play in access to relevant understanding/ support? When are they relevant? What else helps in a whole system approach?