Season’s greetings from the RCSLT

December 2008 ? Issue 680

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RCSLT Northern Student Day 2009

Thursday 22 January 2009 Crawfurd Lecture Theatre, Jordanhill Campus, University of Strathclyde, 76 Southbrae Drive, Glasgow, G13 1PP

Registration 10am, 10.30am - 4.30pm (subject to change)

Students at the RCSLT national student study day in March

This event is specifically for students from Strathclyde, Queen Margaret, Ulster and Newcastle Universities. Preference will be given to final year students

Packed with useful presentations and interactive workshops, delegates will learn about the exciting and diverse career opportunities in speech and language therapy, with practical tips on how to get their first job and succeed beyond this.

I Future trends in speech and language therapy I Tips for interviews, application forms, and your CV I "Getting ahead..." Personal characteristics of a

mover and shaker I Presentations from working newly-qualified SLTs

Senior RCSLT staff and representatives will highlight the role of the RCSLT and its campaigning work and delegates will be able to learn more about the recent therapy approaches undertaken by practising SLTs.

Visit: for more details and to book your place now.

Cost

The event will offer the chance to meet and network with students from other northern universities, and get tips and advice from newly-qualified practitioners, speech and language therapy managers and representatives from the RCSLT.

This event is free, but a ?10 deposit required, which will be refunded on the day. Refunds will only be offered to written cancellations made no later than two weeks prior to the event (please refer to full terms and conditions on the attached booking form).

Topics on the programme include:

I The RCSLT's role and benefits of membership I The differences between the Health Professions

Council and the RCSLT

The RCSLT is funding this event. It has been organised to minimise travel and accommodation costs for participants.

Season's greetings from the RCSLT

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ISSN 14366-173X

December 2008 ? Issue 680

CONTENTS

4 Editorial, letters 6 News: NI Health Committee gives support to

disability campaign; AHP waiting times must improve: Health Secretary; Buggies are keynote feature of TTYB conference; A multidisciplinary approach to facial palsy; and much more

12 The RCSLT annual conference debates: part one 14 Catherine White and Rosie Richardson: the role of

Auditory Verbal Therapy

16 Julia McGeown: an SLT's experiences in Nigeria 18 Ruth Nieuwenhuis: helping healthcare professionals to converse with

people with aphasia

19 Caroline Newton and Shula Chiat: the SP-EYE tool for detecting

problems in perception and comprehension

20 Carrie Biddle and Emma Mitchell: the development of services for

cancer patients in Cornwall

22 Introducing Q-SET: the RCSLT quality self-evaluation tool 26 Any questions: Ask your colleagues and share your knowledge ? 27 Quick look dates: Essential dates for your CPD diaries 28 Your speech and language therapy job ads 39 Specific Interest Groups: The latest meetings and events around the UK

editorial and letters

A word from your new chair

Take part in the December book draw

"I look forward to meeting many of you over the next two years"

I write this nearly a month into my term as chair, still carrying warm memories of the annual general meeting and study day in the beautiful surroundings of Bath.

The 120 delegates there felt like a large number but in reality was a small proportion of our membership, so I welcome this opportunity to introduce myself to you all.

Briefly, I trained in the Edinburgh School of Speech Therapy and have worked in five health board areas across Scotland. I have been a manager in three of these; all of them integrated children and adult services.

Clinically, I have worked in most areas but am a paediatric therapist. My last client before leaving to take up this role was a young girl with whom I had been working on understanding non-literal language.

I told her I was going to be `chair of the RCSLT', and saw a moment of confusion on her face, but she quickly understood.

The next week she gave me a card, which said: `congratulations on your new job and it won't be too difficult because I have a chair at home...' She had been practising her joke on the family all week.

I am sure there will be times when I recall the words `it won't be too difficult' a little doubtfully, but I know I have the support of a great team of officers in RCSLT and my fellow councilors.

I look forward to developing the corporate plan for 2009-2011 with them and taking it forward.

At the AGM I talked about the importance of working with people with communication impairment in our campaigning work.

I believe strongly that we need to reflect on our user involvement at all levels from clinical practice through to policy work.

I also spoke about recognising the need for the RCSLT to be responsive to all our members. I look forward to meeting many of you over the next two years and encouraging you to become even more involved in the work of the RCSLT. Together, we can ensure the highest quality of speech and language therapy practice.

In closing I wish you a happy festive season and look forward to seeing many of you at the conference in March 2009.

Mary Turnbull RCSLT Chair

RCSLT Bulletin readers can win a copy of Promoting social interaction for individuals with communicative impairments by Suzanne Zeeduk. Send your name, address and membership number to December Book Draw, Bulletin, 2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX. Entries close 17 December 2008. Only one entry per person. October's winner is Catherine Meering from Mursley. A copy of Reaching and teaching the child with autism spectrum disorder is on its way.

Season's greetings from all at the

RCSLT

Please note, the RCSLT offices will be closed from 24 December 2008 until 2 January 2009

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editorial and letters

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LETTERS

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Write to the editor, RCSLT, 2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX email: bulletin@

Please include your postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for publication (250 words maximum)

Autism help for Bangladesh

A group of enterprising parents desperate for help and support have set up the Autistic Children's Welfare Foundation in Bangladesh.

I will be going to visit their services and speak at their first conference in November.

I know that they are very keen for speech and language therapy input and I wondered if there were any intrepid SLTs with autistic spectrum disorder experience willing to volunteer their services to this very deserving organisation.

I would be happy to liaise if anyone was interested. Alternatively, perhaps people could offer their skills in some other way, for example online advice and guidance,

teaching materials etc. Please let me know. I would be very

happy to discuss possibilities.

Jane Neil-MacLachlan Adult autism coordinator, NHS Lothian Email: jane.neilmaclachlan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk

Building a supportive community of practitioners

Scottish regional networks are being set up so that anyone interested in and/or using Intensive Interaction can access support in their area.

These are open to anyone involved in supporting individuals who would benefit

from this approach. The networks are backed by the

Intensive Interaction Institute, set up by Dave Hewett, Cath Irvine and other experienced practitioners and authors to support the use of Intensive Interaction.

The Scottish networks will be a forum where we can learn more, keep up to date and solve problems together.

An initial meeting is planned for January 2009. If you are interested in joining the network, please contact either of us.

Visit: intensiveinteraction.co.uk for information on other regional networks.

Helen Beltran SLT, Community Learning Disability Team, Inverclyde Email: helen.beltran@renver-pct.scot.nhs.uk

Fiona Tanner Specialist SLT, Children with Complex Learning Disability, Glasgow Email: fionatanner@

FROM THE ARCHIVES

December 1969

As one of the pathetic older speech therapists I agree entirely with the views expressed by Anne Porteous in the October Bulletin.

Compared with the days when we saw the patient once, or twice a week when possible, and spent at least half an hour on routine exercises, often for six or even 12 months, the modern idea of seeing a patient once and telling him to return in three or six months time seems casual indeed.

But can we put the blame on the young therapists? No girl can have taken up the profession for the salary ? a shorthand typist of 21 can earn far more, and enjoy benefits unknown to speech therapists, viz, luncheon vouchers etc. Are they taught during their training to be interested in each patient as a person and not just a case?

Do they realise the value of visiting the home and showing sympathy and kindness to the parents? This is particularly valuable when dealing with the spastic or mentally handicapped child.

No one would wish a girl to be "dedicated to her profession to the exclusion of all other interests", but surely a certain amount of dedication is necessary to produce a first-class speech therapist.

Kathleen Jones

December 1971

I recently attended a conference on music therapy, which is a subject of growing popular interest, and which I feel should taken seriously buy our profession.

I was relieved to find that none of the speakers made wildly extravagant claims of success, but each of the cases presented did show a noticeable improvement in the patient's attitude towards communication.

I was particularly impressed by the demonstration by Professor Paul Nordoff and Mr Clive Robbins, which illustrated, with recordings, their treatment of a blind cerebral palsied girl, through five sessions.

Their work with this hitherto non-vocalising girl was to me a profound lesson in intensive stimulation of language, and I only wish that we could invite them to deliver such a paper at one of our own meetings.

E Mary Warren

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