B is for Becky 🌻🦻

Hard of Hearing Speech & Language Therapist AAC Specialist Master of Science 👩‍🎓

Being a nerd is an SLT life hack!

✨She/her/they/them✨

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Ever wonder what it's like dating an SLT? 😅 #SLPeeps

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Seriously though if you have a kiddo who loves listening to numbers on their comm device, get out the blocks and start making the amounts! Bonus points for dramatic reactions when the number is inevitably unachievable

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Child / young person led therapy is the only way when starting AAC. Sometimes this means doing a LOT of maths even though you have dyscalculia 😂 #speechies #AAC

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@BobSagoo As a UK AAC SLT I really appreciated your thoughts and vulnerability Bob!

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I've pledged my support for this great project – have you? Check it out https://t.co/WOV0M3fNjp https://t.co/klau2xxmu1

[CommunicationFIRST @Communica1st]

"I escaped the very worst ...: institutionalization, isolation, illiteracy, and silencing. We believe that many — and likely most — young people needing AAC today are suffering virtually the same fate I escaped over 50 years ago." https://t.co/O1Q2KlLw7o #AAC

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Because absolutely nothing is as life changing as being able to communicate. Nothing is as empowering as having your own voice, and nothing is as damaging as being denied one. #whySLT

[RCSLT 💙 @RCSLT]

On #ResultsDay, we want everyone to share why speech and language therapy is such an important and inspiring career #WhySLT

Welcome new #SLT2Bs! 👋

#AlevelResults #ALevelResultsDay2023 #ResultsDay2023 #ALevelResultsDay #MySLTDay #SLPeeps

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@ellagreggSLT These look absolutely gorgeous! Please send me the link when they drop

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@NiamhFoySLT Building networks and connecting with other SLTs in a certain specialism can be so hard. I'm always disappointed when someone I wanted to network with has closed themselves off, but equally I value their time and energy so I don't blame them

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No one in paeds really talks about how you get exposed to every cough and cold floating around, so many weekends are spent recovering from something ready for the week ahead. My education colleagues definitely acknowledge it more! Any tips other than lots of fluids & vitamins c?

[RADLDcampaign @RADLDcam]

Here is a reason to raise awareness of DLD in our communities! Join us on the international DLD awareness day on Oct. 20, 2023. @RADLDcam #DLDday #devlangdis

[Scope @scope]

It doesn’t matter where you are on your journey of Disability Pride 🌠

As @AnanyaPaints has illustrated in this beautiful piece for us and @MindCharity, like most things in the universe, Disability Pride can be complicated.

[Jamie Raines 🦖🥔 @jammi_dodger94]

So @CostaCoffee depicted a trans masc person, and transphobes are angry and shouting #BoycottCostaCoffee (obvs). Shockingly to them trans people exist, and might drink coffee. Anyway, as a trans man with similar scars, thank you Costa for the representation 🏳️‍⚧️

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@kathbuckeridge I've dropped you an email!

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@sallymorganslt @LEGO_Group @OfSlts @SLTeaTime @RCSLT My partner worked at Lego and made this for me when I started 💖

[National Disability Rights Network @NDRNadvocates]

We are looking for 1-2 potential storytellers who:
- Have an intellectual or developmental disability
- Are people of color
- Would like to share a 3 to 5-minute story related to having Covid/the rollback of pandemic protections/ navigating medical systems during the pandemic

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@PRockbottom @drjanaway There are bills other than a mortgage

[Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield]

Hospital employee: “Which do you prefer, confined to a wheelchair or wheelchair-bound?”
Me: “I prefer wheelchair user.”

When I think of being confined or bound, the last thing I think of is my wheelchair. Wheelchair use is freeing. Wheelchair use is mobility.

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@Claire_SLT @RCSLT That sounds amazing!

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@DrLucieOlivova @JonnyGucks It's the "is all it takes" that shows how clueless the author was!

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@MarkRussellJ @JonnyGucks To be fair hot dealing does suck