A friend just told me she overheard a boy ask in a DIY shop a few weeks ago:"Do you have a de-humiliator?"🌞💦

Tmw! Invited to run training day & do some storytelling at Ringwood Shelling School, where I lived & worked as a volunteer Carer/ #SaLT for 6 yrs with chn with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities& autism.They taught me how to be a Human B & SaLT. Now: ⬆️ EB oral #storytelling rhythm gesture.

Hey! 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES a survey from #SLP2b @emmamcvean.bsky.social -- click the LinkedIn survey link twice. 🙏PLEASE BOOST> @lisntell.bsky.social @ficontextual.bsky.social @nesltresearch.bsky.social @apinchofsalts.bsky.social @gillianrudd.bsky.social 🌎🌍🌏DO YOU SEEK INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS, EMMA?

Almost had to stop driving last night listening to this riveting radio-deep,tender, funny& so respectful towrds the individual subject & listener. "Oh the Humanity!" as an 11 yr old with cognitive difficulties exclaimd to me once 1/2 thro a spontaneous story he told of love, loss & reconciliation...

Fine group of Speech Pathologists, 1 #OT and a manager #childrenscare who took part in #Lis'nTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling part 1 training, end of May this year. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 #Lis'nTell core practitioner #SaLT @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying me & to fabulous 🇲🇹 hospitality, commitment & experience 👏🏼

Great news! Congratulations to, from July 1st 2025, Distinguished Professor @pamelasnow.bsky.social one of the most compelling, clear and compassionate lecturers and writers I have encountered. pamelasnow.blogspot.com #literacy #education Thank you for your work 🏚️ 📖

Unexpected article abt the essence of Lis'n Tell:live inclusive storytelling by 🇲🇹 #SLP Veronica Montanaro (PhD student Leeds Uni) b4 our recent 🇲🇹 visit. Many thanks to VM🌞 for inviting me to run Part 1 again & to @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying brilliantly🌟 www.taascmalta.com/blog/span-cl...

DAY 1️⃣ #push-upCHALLENGE 3,214 push-ups in 23 days www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... Our 😅sweaty efforts are dedicated to: Students navigating school pressures, feelings of isolation or "difference", and social media anxiety. www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... 💰YOU CAN DONATE!

Training Attention Autism Advanced Practitioner Group this wk: participants frm South Africa, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong. Finding tales frm each culture to practise storytelling eg: iconic gesture/memory & intonation; imagination/seeing what you're saying (or feeling if aphantasic);rhythm 'n role

Back from training #SLP team in Malta🇲🇹 with Lis'n Tell Core Practitioner #SLT Caroline Casula. Loved their expressiveness, engagement, insights. Moved by 'de-institutionalisation' in senior /child care homes & how they see Lis'n Tell part of that. Special Assistance at airports fantastic each way ♿

Next #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 3July 8pm BST is about rdcu.be/epDVP, plus paper by autistic adults abt their GLP related experience (I don't have link yet). Also interesting re GLP history/ backgrnd to the Systematic Rev/ GLP NLA/ #languagedevelopment/ #SLP for #echolalia: thedldproject.com/gestalt-lang...

Re-reading The Future of Neurodiversity. "Neurodivergent Power would place our sights squarely on our collective ability to resist the entire economic system that disables and discriminates against us". @drrobertchapman.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-fu...

🆓 🔓 Alyssa Kuiack and @larchiba.bsky.social #DevLangDis in #PlainEnglish #easyEnglish 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES Kuiack, A. & Archibald, L (2019) Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About. Frontiers for Young Minds. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Finding this so interesting and looking forward to conversation this evening #SaLTBkGrp about: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin...

As decided last time #SaLTBkGrp Thurs Jun 5, 2025 8:00-9.15 PM London NEW Topic: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin... #SaLT #SLP #Disability #conversation #sharedexperience #livedexperience Do let me know if you'd like to join this new phase either by DM or email me via website: www.lisntell.co.uk 🙏🏼📚🫖☕

#SaLTBkGrp moving to 1st Thurs/month 8pm BST Thurs June 5th: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin... Thurs July 3rd: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Systematic Review of Interventions Based on (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence & Cautions for Clinicians & Parents. Interested?-DM me 🌞

On the way up to Edinburgh last Thursday on the train -met an amazing man: a Parental Activist who's supported many families and children in the South East. He's interviewed here: www.buzzsprout.com/2073535/epis...

#SaLTBkGrp tonight -new phase - #AVisionfromtheMargin was amazing, challenging, moving, uplifting. Talking tonight about what to read next....a book? a research paper? Then as usual we'll have a break in August📚

Last Monday contribd to Attention Autism Advnced Trning "Speaking from the Heart"-voice & gesture presentatn skills, Friday ran w'shop for co-worker/carers at Garvald W. Linton💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 garvaldwestlinton.org.uk then w/e I tutord Olympic FreeStyle skier-storytelling for coaching his teenagers beyond fear⛷️

Best Easter film I've ever seen"SingSing"2023 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dX... #rehabilitation thru #ARTS founded by rta-arts.org/blog/celebra... 3% recidivism compard to 60% USA nat. average. This 🎥 helpd Chris Martin thru depressn. Reminds me of seeing Othello in Brixton Prison with SirD Ramsbotham

💰🔐 @ashajournals.bsky.social Among those who feel that vocal fry is normal, there's a belief that [its] use may become pathological under certain conditions, e.g., “excessive” use [This] remains to be tested, and what is considered excessive is unknown. pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Glasses with windscreen wipers & flashing lights are sometimes useful for telling a story #inclusivestorytelling #props #attentiondevelopment #languagedevelopment previous #liveinclusivestorytelling training Part 1 Intensive. Next: 15-16 May 2025 London with Core Practitioner SaLT Siobhan Ray & me

#SaLTBkGrp a deep searching journey into our practice & experience it was with #AVisionFromtheMargin #intersectionality #racism Suggestions coming in for next book.We'll decide soon. #RCSLT April 2025 paper on Learning from the experiences of disabled SLTs in the workplace?or📙👇🏼? Or a research paper?

"Individuals with intellectual disability may have limited narrative skills....findings indicate ⬇️ coherence, syntactic complexity& grammatical sentences" Altman et al 2022 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35428038/ Strengths also cited & ongoing devlpmnt👇🏼Lis'n Tell acknowledges & aims to build on strengths.

Children with developmental language disorder (#DLD) experience probs in lang comprehensn &/or productn. In particular, storytelling/narrative ability is often impaired-this type of discourse involves all domains of language.' www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... A couple of places still available:👇🏼

🎉 to be invitd 3rd time to train #SaLT team in Malta. This yr assistd by SaLT Caroline Casula. I've met FAB friendly engaging Maltese teamwrk. My spinal surgeon 'retired' there & as volunteer-introducd pioneering programme to screen & treat children's scoliosis. Eventually backed by the govrnmnt ❤️ 🇲🇹

Suggestions for next #SaLTBkGrp 📖 starting May 2025? Ist Tues/the month: 8-9.15pm GMT. We'll be finishing #AVisionfromtheMargin in April - after a soul searching journey with the authors & ed. @mariammalik.bsky.social thro their experiences of racism & prejudice & +ve steps twrds a better future 👏🏼🙏🏼

#SaLTBkGrp is open to #SaLTs - and SaLT Students, we've REALLY appreciated having them onboard -fresh experience & insights. Nearly finished #AVisionfromtheMargin pub. @jandrpress.bsky.social - amazing challenging uplifting journey.Future 📚 please? 🙏🏼 @carolinebowen.bsky.social for resrch suggestns🔭📑

#SaLTBkGrp tonight with author/Ch7 #AVisionfromtheMargin Iman Virji"The Invisible Chair":offering comfort&understanding to stressd clients/colleagues; real rapport; knowg our triggers; understndg attachmnt; maintaing passion for wrk❤️‍🔥;responsibility/impct of givng diagnoses;how diversity shapes us🙏🏼📖

substack.com/home/post/p-... Kathleen Kelly Halverson writes "Why do we as a society run away from grief and sadness? Just sit with it for a while. Just let yourself be with it. It’s ok. Really". 🥹 #ComeSitWithMe <<ping>> @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lynn-williams.bsky.social @lisntell.bsky.social

Why does Battye's 2024/5 #GestaltLanguageProcessing text push so many texts that rely on #FacilitatedCommunication #SpellersMethod #RPM? UK NICE Guidelines say #FC shouldn't be used. www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG1... Her 2023 text 'Navigating AAC') was sensible. Avoid a slide into pseudoscience.

Me to supermarket boy outside: Plse wd you help me load my car? He: Of course Me: Are you a student...working here full time? He: I'm re-doing politics A' level - bump up my grade Me: Ah, then? He: A gap year. Travel. Then I'll study history.There's a history of people studying history in my family.

I used my very best am-dram skills in this video because once again those with Developmental Language Disorder were forgotten. #TheForgottenMillion #DevLangDis

Last week- Me: sorry I made a mistake with my pin Garage Man: that's ok - have another go Me: I was miles away.... Garage Man: Oh, somewhere nice?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 20/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 18/20

Young man with moderate #intellectualdisabilities tells me he'd told GP trying to put him on meds: "I'm not depressed!I am SAD." He's at last been heard & allowed to change placement.He's so much happier. We'd worked for many weeks on assertion skills, voicing needs/wants. I'm in awe of him #SaLT👏🏼❤️‍🔥😮

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 17/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 15/20

Each critique I hear tops the last - and this one is going to be very hard to beat. WOW. #TelepathyTapes @conspirituality.bsky.social made such a thoughtful, thorough, heartfelt expose - many new insights for me - also calling for contact from anyone harmed or impacted by #FC #RPM #SpellersMethod

A great long read on the #TelepathyTapes ehttps://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-telepathy-tapes-is-taking-america

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 14/20

Incredible concert yesterday:James Gilchrist. Generous, wonderful tenor, gave himself to words (inc war of creed&creed)composers musicians & us-President of Mindsong Gloucester based charity-music therapy to work with ppl with #dementia www.mindsong.org.uk My shy husband began a standing ovation👏🏼❤️‍🔥🎼

#SaLTBkGrp Tues 4 Feb 8-9.15pm GMT Simon Bedeau's Ch 6 frm #AVISIONFROMTHEMargin ( @jandrpress.bsky.social ) Ed: @mariammalik.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

#SaLTBkGrp TuesFeb4 8-9.15pmGMT Ch 6: Navigating Speech&LanguageTherapy as a queer Black man: Reflections & Hopes for the Future by Because of You Award winner Simon Bedeau People Participation Lead/Learning Disability Services #AVisonfromtheMargin @mariammalik.bsky.social @jandrpress.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 12/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky ♥️📚 #Books #BookChallenge 11/20