March 1, 2024

Harmonizing potential: Enriching speech, language, and communication through the young voices choir and inclusion strategies for children with SLCN

How much do you know about Young Voices? The world's largest school choir group, performing year on year in venues all over the world, has...

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February 1, 2024

The mystery of the missing bench

When I picked up my 7-year-old daughter from school on Friday I asked about her day, expecting to hear about what she’d had for lunch....

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January 8, 2024

Insufficient Discussion

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist’s (RCSLT) submission to the Centre for Social Justice’s report Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the...

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January 4, 2024

A personal experience of education after stroke

By Katherine Buckeridge (Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in Paediatric Neurology) and Jessica Cannons (Childhood Stroke Survivor) Childhood Stroke When you hear the word stroke, the image...

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November 23, 2023

Putting children at the heart: A call to action for a better tomorrow

In November 2023, a report titled ‘Children at the Table: A roadmap for putting children at the heart of the next Government’ was published by...

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November 2, 2023

Thinking about winking

The dictionary definition for ‘wink’ is 'to close and open one eye quickly, typically to indicate that something is a joke or a secret or...

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September 20, 2023

“People don’t get me”

It’s positive to see that speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) are becoming more talked about. Last year, schools assessed 230,000 pupils using Speech Link and...

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September 14, 2023

We are more than just an assessment

Did you know that the therapists at Speech and Language Link collectively have over 100 years of speech and language therapy experience, while our team...

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August 3, 2023

Helping teens with Selective Mutism overcome their fear of speaking

Selective Mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder and phobia: the fear of others hearing your voice. My son was diagnosed when he was four years...

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July 6, 2023

Supporting young people to develop teamwork skills

In the last week, how many times have you worked with others to achieve a common goal? Did you have to change your ‘role’, adapt...

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