Suzi Cookson

Adult Acute Speech and Language Therapist 🗣🧠💬

[HeatherJowittSLT @HJowittSlt]

We have a fantastic B3 opportunity for someone with a particular interest in #speechandlanguagetherapy to work with SLTs to carry out #neurorehab with people with #braininjury in a level 1 inpatient setting at the Wolfson Rehab Centre. 👇Closing 8th Feb.
https://t.co/95HV2B5qHo

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Is it weird to post a picture of your larynx on Twitter? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Doing it anyway because this weeks placement highlight was getting a FEES done! Great opportunity to find out what we put our patients through as well as having the chance to examine my own anatomy! 🤓

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

@NadiaTetrault Amazing! My PEs are doing one on me tomorrow! Weirdly excited… 😂

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Day 1 ✔️ of my last university placement on critical care at Guy’s and St Thomas’, working with long-term ventilation patients. Finally get to wear a set of raspberry scrubs! #scrublife #SLT

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

@BCAphasia @UCLLangCog @UCL_MScSLS Thank you!! 🙏🏼😁

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

@SLT_LaurenGray Thank you!! ☺️🙌🏼

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Relieved!! Final year VIVA ticked off ✅ just a dissertation to write and an unassessed placement to enjoy and then I’ll actually be able to say, I’m a SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPIST 😱🤩🍾

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

WOW. Such a fab 5 weeks on the acute trauma and neurosurgery wards at the Royal Sussex County Hospital! Met some brilliant people and had endless learning opportunities 💙 So grateful to have had this experience and shared it with my best pal too! Thank you @BSUH_NHS @UCL_MScSLS

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

@GrasslyJen Thanks Jennie! It’s been an amazing experience so far, I’ve learnt SO much! Wish we could stay for longer!

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

4 weeks of block placement down at RSCH @BSUH_NHS! Feeding patients and analysing videos in videofluoroscopy clinic definitely a highlight 🖥 starting to feel more confident working on the trauma and neurosurgery wards 💪🏼 in other news, continuing to LOVE being by the sea 😍🌊

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

@aedmondes_SLT Thank you!! I hope your placement is going well too 🗣🧠🤗

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Week 3 ✅ Lots of communication and swallowing assessments with patients this week. Highlight of the week: delivering formal training on upper airway anatomy to OTs & physios and receiving excellent feedback. If I didn’t know my cranial nerves before, I sure do now!! @BSUH_SLT 🧠

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

@CaitlinAddisSLT @BSUH_NHS Thanks so much!! ☺️

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Another fab week on placement with @BSUH_NHS. Finished the week off by shadowing a specialist SLT working on ENT. Great to see some voice therapy techniques demonstrated with patients and get the chance to practice perceptual skills by grading voice quality using the GRBAS 👂🏼👀🗣

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Week one of block placement at @BSUH_NHS complete and so many learning opportunities already! 📝🙌🏼 From assisting with tracheostomy cuff deflation to communication assessments to oromotor examinations! It’s great to be able to apply theory to practice 🧠🗣 @UCL_MScSLS @BSUH_SLT

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Amazing to participate and be involved in changing a laryngectomy valve today on my first day on acute placement in Brighton! A very valuable experience to be a part of 🗣 excited for what’s to come over the next 5 weeks!! #slt2b

[James Smithson SLT @SLTSmithson]

Lovely to see #voicebanking featured on @BBCBreakfast this morning. Richie’s search for a more authentic, East Yorkshire voice highlights the importance of individual identity in #AAC and the role of #SLT in facilitating it 🙌

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Just caught up with “I can’t say my name - Stammering in the spotlight” on @BBCiPlayer. An insightful documentary presented by BBC producer @Felicity_Baker exploring stammering and its impacts. Definitely worth a watch! 🙌🏼

[sophieraworth @sophieraworth]

“I Can’t Say My Name - Stammering In The Spotlight” presented by @felicity_baker. @bbcone Wednesday 10th March 7:30pm and on @iplayer #icantsaymyname

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Covid-19: The speech therapists helping patients find their voices https://t.co/vP2bcKwr5P

[Suzi Cookson @SuziCooksonSLT]

Spent the final two weeks of ongoing placement in acute on Critical Care at @KingsCollegeNHS. Looking forward to gaining new skills in this setting on my next placement in Brighton! @UCL_MScSLS #SLT2B