@kimt-slt
Speech and Language Therapist and Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Research and clinical interests - barriers to access to justice for those with speech, language and communication needs. #criminaljustice #mentalhealth #devlangdis
Wow! Excited to open our first delivery of Bowen and Snow's "Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs" Still available on pre-publication offer on our website #bskyspeechies #children #SLT
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Come join our SLT team at Oxford Hospitals! Full time permanent Band 6 role in our acute stroke team #SLPeeps #SLT #SLTjobs
Ooh, congratulations in advance!!
Quality Dad joke there 😫😆
Not looking remotely guilty!! 😆
So pleased to launch this project! Any adult with #DevLangDis, autism or dyslexia invited to participate! We are also looking for adults without neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Please RT! @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social
ADHD & autism are five-to-ten times more prevalent in prisons vs the general population. Refusing to recognise, support & truly value neurodivergent people isn't just inhumane - it's fiscally ruinous. Kids struggle to focus, feel overwhelmed, we call them bad then lock them up. & it costs loads!
Our team! What lovely feedback will pass it on 😊 @manmetuni.bsky.social
Also excited to see a poster from Sunila John on evaluation of language abilities of individuals with schizophrenia. Standard assessment tool wasn't helpful but linguistic analysis of connected speech sample shows promise- good news as have an MSc student planning a study around this #RCSLTCONF2025
@nessa-lloyd.bsky.social has a very natty title for hers 'A modest PRU-posal' looking at service developments to fast track vulnerable students for assessment. An average wait time of just 20 days 👏🏻 #RCSLTCONF2025
Enjoying the posters at #RCSLTCONF2025 - Some of them talk to you!! Enjoyed reading about the development of a rating checklist for easy read material developed by Hollyanna Wilson in conjunction with people with a learning disability. Look out for the free RATER checklist, coming soon 👀🔎 #slpeeps
It was a good reminder to me not just to be a passive recipient of information!
Finally, Prof Maria Arche talking about the Youth Justice Language COST Action project which now involves 30 countries across Europe raising awareness of communication needs in the criminal justice space youthjusticelanguage.org/about-the-ac... #Slpeeps #RCSLTCONF2025
Fiona Stuart talking about her PhD at Queens University Belfast developing an AI tool to support Police Officers to recognise the best ways to interview an individual with communication needs #Slpeeps #RCSLTConf2025
Three wonderful sessions chaired. Elaine Duddy talked about how she raised the number of completed assessments, increased young people's agency in the Youth Justice Service whilst importantly 'moving at the speed of trust'. #slpeeps #RCSLTConf2025
I agree it has gone quiet and LinkedIn seems busier but I think we need to keep cultivating this space as I think/hope it can become a beautiful space for sharing all things SLP/SLT #SLPeeps
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....
It's ask the committee time!!
Today's question is:
What made you want to be an SLT in Criminal Justice and Secure Settings?
Add your answers below and join the discussion.
#SLPeeps #SLT #MySLTDay #CriminalJustice #SecureSettings #BskySpeechies
Excited to be joining the #RCSLTConf25 to see not 1 but 2 criminal justice related sessions 🙌🏻 I'll shortly be joining the Adult Prison session before chairing the Youth Justice session. Exciting times!! 🤩 #mySLTday
To support DLD Day 2025, we’ve updated our free DLD guide for families - 135 articles addressing FAQs #devlangdis #DLDday www.banterspeech.com.au/dld-a-free-g...
Today is #DLDDay Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder is rising but not well understood. Did you know that it carries on into adulthood? That it doesn't have to be in conjunction with any other condition? Affects 7% of the population? Find out more here: radld.org/about/dld/ #devlangdis
This Thursday (Oct 2nd) @hannahhobson.bsky.social is presenting @radld.bsky.social's @deevybee.bsky.social lecture on camouflaging in #DevLangDis. Don't miss it. Recording tickets also available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-d...
#DLDday
Please check out the Top 10 Research Priority Questions for #DevLangDis. Newly launched after extensive consultations involving people with DLD, families and professionals. www.rcslt.org/news/top-que...
And that's a wrap from beautiful Cardiff and the Vulnerable Accused Criminal Justice System conference #VACJS25
Sandwell are providing a wrap around service for children in Alternative Provisions including SLT to try and provide support to avoid contact with youth justice #VACJS25
Finally Vanessa Lloyd closing the conference- a speech and language therapist closing a criminal justice conference. Communication is central to so much in a justice setting. This makes me very happy 😊 #VACJS25
Now Melanie Jameson talking about dyslexia and what can support dyslexic individuals #VACJS25
...And there are a lot of steps and modifications along the way. Take away - listen to and observe the person closely #VACJS25
But it doesn't have to be that way, sometimes it works. This needs the right people involved early and buy in from all #VACJS25
Tony Bowman from The SOLD Network talking about barriers to justice for vulnerable defendants at every stage of the justice system #VACJS25