Originals
The following articles are freely available original articles - mainly conference reports - written for the speechmag site. We hope you find them useful.
Stop.Think.Change. (posted June 2009)
Speech & Language Therapy in Practice editor Avril Nicoll attended the Nursing & Midwifery Council's 2008 Midwifery conference as a user representative - but found pause for thought as a speech and language therapist.
'Growing up with a Speech and Language Impairment' (posted December 2008)
Key messages from the Afasic Scotland 40th anniversary conference on 6 November 2008 include the need for more dynamic assessment, co-teaching and joint communication and behaviour intervention. Speech & Language Therapy in Practice editor Avril Nicoll reports.
'Living independently with aphasia' conference (posted September 2008)
Samantha Miles on the passion of the second multidisciplinary aphasia conference of the Speech and Language Therapy Aphasia Action Group, Portsmouth City Teaching Primary Care Trust, 12 May 2008.
ASLTiP conference 2008 (posted September 2008)
The annual conference of the Association of Speech & Language Therapists in Independent Practice in Northampton, 8 March 2008, covered a range of clinical, professional and business topics. Speech & Language Therapy in Practice editor Avril Nicoll reports.
I CAN conference (posted March 2008)
Speech & Language Therapy in Practice editor Avril Nicoll looks back on the I CAN conference 'Working together to get it right for every child: Transdisciplinary working for children and young people with a communication disability', Edinburgh, 21 September 2007.
27th IALP World Congress (posted December 2007)
Ann French, senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, finds much to interest and inspire at the 27th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Copenhagen, 6-9 August 2007.
British Aphasiology Society conference (posted December 2007)
Speech & Language Therapy in Practice editor Avril Nicoll picks up some key trends and messages from the British Aphasiology Society's Biennial International Conference, 10-12 September 2007.
Solutions in Education conference (posted December 2007)
To complement the feature on multi-professional working in the Winter 07 issue, Speech & Language Therapy in Practice editor Avril Nicoll reflects on the themes of BRIEF's 2007 Solutions in Education conference and the implications for speech and language therapists.
Mount Wilga High Level Language Test (posted June 2007)
Fiona Simpson, specialist speech and language therapist with County Durham and Darlington PCT, has produced this revised version of Mount Wilga High Level Language Test. This unpublished but popular resource was devised in 1986 by Christie, Clark and Mortensen at the Mount Wilga Rehabilitation Centre in Sydney, Australia. Over the years the references, introduction and instructions have become separated from the test form in many clinics. Fiona emphasises that this revised version is being made freely available on the understanding that it will only be passed on as a whole, and will not be re-edited.
Spanish Lessons (May 2005)
Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist Heather Graz reflects on how non-practising time in Chile has given her lessons in communication that couldn't be taught in a classroom.
Inspections and Talking Mats: a more powerful say (May 2004)
How can you help children with multiple disabilities express views on their care? When an inspector called, Angela Hunter and colleagues at a residential school rose to the challenge with the help of Talking Mats.
