Helen McAllister

The DLD team @Herts_CYPT recently provided whole service training on supporting grammar for children with DLD. Spreading the word about #DevLangDis in Herts #DLDday #DevLangDis @radldcam

DLD awareness day in Herts! 💜💛💜💛 #DLDday

Speech and Language Therapy spoke to children in a local Hertfordshire school to find out their thoughts about DLD and what those around them can do to help. Here is what they said: #DLDday #DevLangDis @radldcam @hctnhs @RCSLT

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a problem with language, its content, form and use. Language is everywhere. DLD has a major impact on people affected by it. Let's speak up and advocate for people with DLD. @RADLDcam #DLDday

Fabulous resource on #DevLangDis from ⁦@TheInformedSLP⁩ DLD Assessment: Start here theinformedslp.com/review/DLD-Ass…

The course in evidence base for DLD contains some of the best CPD I’ve done! I’d highly recommend and refer to it every week! #DevLangDis

@lainee_ashton @LIVELY_SLS Looking forward to seeing you there!

So it was on (here’s the last 3 mins)- we need to #InvestInSLT across the lifespan. @MikeysWish_VDA @GillianRudd @RCSLTpolicy @chris_kammy @leckiegeorgia @WMISLT2 @SLTatBCU Once you’re watched please sign the petition… petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6579…

Just home after another inspiring and thought provoking @NAPLIC conference! So many ideas, now to start implementing them! #NAPLIC24 #DevLangDis

👶Supporting early language development 👶 We are delighted to launch our website & resources to support ELIM-I use in practice developed in partnership with @iHealthVisiting & @bbcthp. Please take a look at the 'super communicator' resources & guidance research.ncl.ac.uk/elim-i/elim-i/…

The government has today confirmed, after a week of uncertainty, that they are scrapping the dedicated role of Minister for Disabled People. This announcement sends an appalling message to the 16 million disabled people in the UK. 🔗 inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a long-term condition that affects #2in30 school children. It's hard to spot, and not very well-known. Check out our new myth-busting page to find out more about how to support those living with #DLD: speechandlanguage.org.uk/news/myth-bust…

For pupils with developmental language disorder, teachers can introduce very simple adaptations to their classroom practice that make a big difference, explain experts @SusanEbbels and Sue Marr tes.com/magazine/teach… tes.com/magazine/teach…

A new vision for DLD: A world in which everyone knows about DLD! Can’t wait! #DevLangDis #DLDday

@lainee_ashton @SLSncl Wow! Is it that long? 20 years ago for both of us!!

So proud to work with you, Katinka. Looking forward to seeing the positive impact this has on CYP in Herts!

@Herts_CYPT So very well deserved after all your hard work Katinka!

Congratulations to Katinka, Speech and Language Therapist, for winning the 2023 Alyson Portch Award at this years #HCTLeadingLights

Today is #EnglishLanguageDay! 📖 🎉 Here’s a few of our favourite facts about the English language! Let us know yours

Stephen Parsons - SLTs have a professional responsibility to diagnose DLD. No other professionals diagnose this. If we don’t, no-one else will! We need to diagnose to raise awareness and advocacy for DLD. @NAPLIC @WordAware #NAPLIC23 #DevLangDis

It's #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek and so we want to give a big shout out to all of the DLDers. They need to work so hard every day because almost no one has heard of Developmental Language Disorder. #DevLangDis