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There’s a month left to apply for an RCSLT 💙 minor grant – up to £800 towards #CPD4SLTs! If you’re looking for some funding for your learning, head on over to tinyurl.com/4j5xf989 for the details on how to apply. #slpeeps

"I am so afraid of death." Please watch this video from my friend's Salsabeel Ali 12 year old Deaf brother. The genocide forces children to lose their childhood. We are raising funds to secure Mohamed's evacuation when the Rafah crossing reopens gofund.me/0aba68ec

Empowering Women w/ Disabilities through Intersectional Advocacy - Excellent 5 min read from CBM Australia & #AceFellow Janine Cruzet 2 enhance understanding of the importance of #intersectionality in everyday life cbm.org.au/iag/empowering… @cbmaustralia

🧵1/4 Our paper in BMJGlobalHealth highlights the urgency of communication disability being addressed in Low & Middle Income-Countries. Thx to our global authors. MMU Health and Education R&I RCSLTResearch RCSLTpolicy gh.bmj.com/content/9/7/e0…

🧵2/4 Communication is a human right: Communication Disability (CD) is too often overlooked, under-recognised & misunderstood, despite its long-term consequences.Comm_n International Helen Barrett (she/her) MMU Health and Education R&I gh.bmj.com/content/9/7/e0…

🧵3/4 Addressing CD in LMICs, requires new approaches to workforce, collaboration with communities and culturally responsive approaches. MMU Health and Education R&I @IALP SLTea Time Mershen Pillay gh.bmj.com/content/9/7/e0…

🧵4/4 People who experience Communication Disability, Communities, governments, NGOs & SLTs should collaborate to ensure that People who experience CD achieve their human right to communicate. RCSLTLearn MMU Health and Education R&I FCDO Inclusive UNHCR Rwanda gh.bmj.com/content/9/7/e0…

Yesterday saw me journey over the Pennines to Manchester Metropolitan Uni, I’m hugely honoured to be recognised for my “empowering #AAC advocacy work and being a #Paralympian” by being awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Health. 🧵1/

What a great celebration yesterday! Proud 2 graduate w. a #PhD from MMU Health and Education R&I. Huge thanks 2 all who supported me. Thesis on access 2 inclusive #ECD & ed. 4 #refugee children in #Rwanda: e-space.mmu.ac.uk/634043/ UNHCR Rwanda Manchester Met Doctoral College Julie Marshall RCSLTLearn

Full article: Responsibilities of speechlanguage pathologists in supporting children’s rights: more than listening tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Today, I'm leaving MMU after almost 23 great yrs. Thx to all my lovely MMU colleagues & friends. Looking forward to working as Prof Emerita with my PhD students, with Comm_n International, doing more of all things international SLT & having new adventures! MMU Health and Education R&I

How do we collaborate well with parents of children with Developmental Language Disorder #DLD? In the new @rcslt IJLCD podcast we discuss with Inge Klatte one of the authors of a study & Astrid van Gessel, parent expert. tinyurl.com/DLDcollab #slpeeps RCSLT 💙Research

Reminder our upcoming webinar takes place next Wednesday sign up for your free place eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-c…

Register your place at our #IJLCDWinterLecture, taking place on 12 Feb 2025. Join us as we consider key concepts around dosage and active ingredients when providing language interventions, with speakers Professor Cristina McKean and Dr Pauline Frizelle Register here rcslt.info/48ZswtI

Last week Comm_n International held its AGM. Many thx to outgoing committee members. Tonight I'm looking forward to starting work with new joiners, planning our work for 2025, to support equitable comm. disability work in low & middle income countries. Watch this space! RCSLTpolicy

Julie Marshall Comm_n International RCSLTpolicy Looking forward to joining tonight. This year planning for decolonisation statement, joint EDI work with our sister organisations ADAPT and OTFrontiers, and work with colleagues in LMICs to access support needed.

Speech Pathologists / Speech Therapists all over the world should be concerned about the children of Gaza. What our colleagues in Gaza are going through and how we can best support them!! RCSLT 💙 SLTs of Colour Bryony Rust Dr Caroline Jagoe 🌱 UCL Faculty of Life Sciences news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

Mark Jayes, Vuledzani Madima, Julie Marshall & Mershen Pillay 's paper: "Dysphagia management in community/home settings: A scoping review investigating practices in Africa" in Vol 26, 6, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our November 2024 webinar is now available to watch (or re-watch!!) on our webpage! Visit communicationtherapyinternational.org under Events to view #communcationtherapyinternational #slts #slt #internationalwork #speechandlanguage #RCSLT #thailand #communicationdifficulties

With less than a week to go we're packing our bags ready to go to this year's Sahara Marathon. Some of us are running, some are walking, some of us are dressing up as vegetables. We are all raising money for the amazing Growing Hope Project. Link in bio. Follow our story here.