🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

💖 i am running a two day summer school on linguistic justice for school teachers, in Manchester on June 12 & July 4. places are free, and travel etc is all fully funded. full details here, including how to express an interest in participating: ahead.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/16/lin… 💖

Join us for Practical Guidance on Differential Diagnosis for speech sound disorders with Lorraine Bamblett starting next Wednesday 📆 🎟️ tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-gu… If you can’t attend all the dates recordings will be available/you can purchase individual tickets.

Now more than ever, your disabled colleagues need your allyship. This is a really comprehensive report from RCSLT 💙 about what disabled SLTs are going through.

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else". ― Toni Morrison

Trans women are and will always be women 🏳️‍⚧️

“I do believe that this is a moral obligation that all of us have, to make sure that governments respect their legal obligations under international law.” Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, discusses the recent threats some Western states have made to

Families are important knowledge holders. This longitudinal study of 1,534 Indigenous Australian children demonstrated parent report of speech and language concern in early childhood is an early indicator of education outcomes at school ASHA Journals pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Sure Start centres produced £2 of benefits for every £1 they spent, study shows. Public investment works. It generates positive returns. Public investment is the key to economic recovery. theguardian.com/education/2025…

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Today, the Independent ADHD Taskforce (commissioned by NHS England in 2024) published a report calling for major reforms across health, education, justice, and society. It is calling for people with ADHD receive timely, effective, and high-quality support. The report also

A 2nd paper from my PhD on #BlueBadge parking encounters is now published in Urban Studies Journal. This one focuses on 'faking' encounters and how no space is truly accessible while disabled people are under constant surveillance. Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Attended the Helping Hands launch event today and so happy to see they’ve secured 3 years of funding to support families with neurodivergent children across the Black Country 💖 …and such a beautiful location at RSPB Sandwell!

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨🚨🚨 The United Nations is calling for the UK Government to stop the Universal Credit (PIP) Bill because it will 'deepen the signs of regression' in disabled people's human rights. tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/tr…

Really interesting article from my colleagues Hazel Richards PhD and Victoria Lundie who investigated the experiences/perspectives of the first cohort of speech and language therapy degree apprentices and their workplace mentors SLT at BCU onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad.

RIP Andrea Gibson, a brilliant poet

Congratulations to the class of 2025! So proud to see so many ex-students graduate yesterday 🎉🎉🎉 SLT at BCU youtube.com/live/zj7w26vw_…