Faith Chow (she/her)

Early Years Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Special interests in Bilingualism, Autism and genuine EDI |
IG @speechtherapyfun 🇭🇰🇬🇧

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Check out this snippet of my talk with @Tapestry_FSF at the Reflecting on Anti- Racism in the Early Years conference last month

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@lizpemtbnm Happy birthday Liz!! Hope you had the most awesome day x

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Was a pleasure speaking to students @GreenwoodAcad about a career in Speech and Language Therapy as part of their careers week! Lots of thoughtful questions from students. Arranged via @InspiringTF -great way to volunteer + share about your career! #mySLTday #SLTpeeps @RCSLT

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Although it looks like things have improved since I started my training in 2011 (if Practice Educator training I attended recently about supporting minoritised students is reflective of training SLT students are receiving) so we are moving in the right direction!

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Absolutely agree! My SLT training in 'cultural competency' felt more like an hour tick box exercise. In reality SLTs work mostly w/ clients not from the dominant culture/lang so this needs to be embedded in all training for therapy to be meaningful, effective + reduce harm

[W @WFarahslt]

SLT/SLP training programs need to seriously prepare their students to work with clients who are not from the dominant culture/language, most of the training currently looks like an afterthought or addendum

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Majority of my SLT training felt like 'this is what we know works for monolingual, English speaking ppl with no other needs... So do the same for all other clients, maybe consider using pictures of racially diverse kids and include some ethnic foods = cultural competency' 🙄

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@WrightJuliem @GreenwoodAcad @RCSLT @GivingVoiceUK @AlexBond_SLT Thanks for sharing! Nice that more children are getting to hear about SLT as a career!

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Planning my talk for Year 5s at @GreenwoodAcad about a career in Speech and Language Therapy + healthcare as part of their #careersweek ! SLTs: what do you wish children knew about SLT? What's your fav thing about your job? @RCSLT @GivingVoiceUK #MySLTDay #SLTpeeps #SLT2b

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@WenshuoCarnall @OfSlts @CityLCS This is so heartwarming and powerful!

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@jonnielovely @GreenwoodAcad @RCSLT @GivingVoiceUK Thank you Joanne! Looking forward to it!

[UK SLT Pride Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @uksltpride]

Pride has such a deep and important history. Thank you to @SLTinSEND @HelenATSLT @jbmdavies @rickvak for telling us about what Pride means to them! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

Happy Pride! Thrilled to see @rcslt representing LGBTQ+ Speech Therapists at #LondonPride2022 @uksltpride (and lovely to meet @NigelSLT ) ! #AllOurPride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@jonnielovely @ChineseautismUK @Hazeltheartist @EmilioLees @LydiaChongSLT @sltserenalo @JenniferChunSLT Thanks for sharing Joanne! This sounds like a great study, great to see one done including Chinese Autistics by a Chinese #ActuallyAutistic researcher too!!!

[Yulin Cheng in the UK @Yu_Lin_Cheng]

I'm looking for #autistic adults to take part in an international online survey for my PhD study on #autism discrimination and wellbeing. Participants can be from anywhere in the world. Scan the QR code or click the link below to access the survey
https://t.co/Skv1eC9QHo

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

'British accent therapy' sounds a lot like erasure of non-native cultural heritage identifiers. 😩 It's racist and horrible to perpetuate that a 'British' accent is somehow superior. Our diverse heritages and accents are 2 be celebrated, not erased+ replaced w/ 'Queen's English'

[Ioanna Marathefti @IMarathefti]

I saw this, this morning… I just wanted to say, let’s embrace who we are! Accents are part of our identities and tell our life stories. Today I am embracing my Mediterranean heritage. If you don’t understand my accent please let me know and I will repeat :) @OfSlts Thoughts?

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

A beautiful thread of Autistic joy! #AutismAcceptanceMonth

[Sue Fletcher-Watson @SueReviews]

We are once again looking for autistic adults (already diagnosed, aged 18+, in Scotland) to join a register of supporters for diagnostic training

Clinicians developing diagnostic skills need practice, which means we need YOU - real life autistic people!

Full info, next tweet

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@elenadice1976 I think SLTs could be so helpful in Adult MH and also all services with vulnerable people! I think a lot of folks could benefit from support to overcome barriers in communicating with vulnerable ppl, there's so many reasons why someone might find it hard to communicate verbally

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@jonnielovely I realised I can't send you a DM unless we follow each other! If you want to chat, please follow me and we can DM :-)

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@jonnielovely Hi Joanne! I saw that it's your birthday today, so happy birthday!! 😊 I'll send you a DM.

[Faith Chow (she/her) @FaithChow9]

@CLCHBrentSLT @RCSLT @GivingVoiceUK This is so lovely! So nice to see a few familiar faces from my time in Brent 😊