London Paediatric Dysphagia CEN

The next PDCEN study day will be a hybrid event in London on Thursday 18th June, 9.30am – 4.30pm. Topics: 'Standardised Assessment' and 'Intervention'. In person attendance will be at Friend’s Meeting House. For event agenda and registration - pdcen.org/events_summary/

Our next study day “(Re)introducing oral intake: balancing safety and progress for children with dysphagia” will be held virtually on Thurs 8th Jan 2026. Free for all to attend, for event agenda and registration on pdcen.org/events_summary/

Cervical auscultation IS BACK! There will be a practical 2-day workshop introducing paediatric and/or adult SLTs to dysphagia management using cervical auscultation on 9th-10th March 2026, hosted by RCSLT Tracheostomy CEN. For more info and registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cervical-aus…

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Our next hybrid Study Day (in-person & interactive webinar) will be on Friday 20th June at the Friend’s meeting house in Euston, London and on Zoom. Tickets are £10 for those attending in person with lunch and refreshments provided. Sign up on our website, we hope to see you!

Agenda for 20th June in-person & interactive webinar Study Day is now on our website. Lunch and refreshments are provided for those in person at Friend's House NW1 2BJ. The event will be recorded and available after for members. Registration is now open. Hope to see you there!

Join us for our hybrid Study Day with Dr. Maureen Lefton-Greif from John Hopkins on Friday 20th June 2025 at the Friends Meeting House in Euston, London or on Zoom. Registration is now open for in-person bookings and online Zoom attendees: pdcen.org/events_summary/

If you could not attend today's PD CEN virtual Study Day, recordings of the sessions will soon be available to members on the website. Our next hybrid Study Day is on 20th June with Dr Maureen Lefton-Greif from John Hopkins University Hospital (USA). Registration opens soon.

That's a wrap to our jam-packed Study Day learning about research projects, how to get into research, and bursary and funding options (including PDCEN, RCSLT and NIHR). Thank you to the brilliant Rebecca Murphy and Sally Morgan for finishing the day on a high!

Perfect way to pique our interest during that post-lunch dip! Great to hear from the wonderful Helen Sutherland, Natalie Morris and Sarah Edney, and we learnt so much from the panel about collecting and using data in clinical practice. Last session of the day starts at 3:20 PM.

Our Study Day on research is well underway! Session 2 featured the amazing Stephanie Blanks, Alex Stewart, Jeri Yap and Dr Diane Sellers. Research starts with curiosity and requires a network of knowledge and experience and funding to propel forward. We are back at 1:30 PM.

What an amazing start to our Study Day learning more about research! Been so inspiring to hear from the talented Sonja Jacobs, Alison Felton, Emma Glisson and Dr. Mari Viviers about their research journeys and projects. Join us from session 2 at 11:30 AM.

Happy Swallowing Awareness Day! ... and one more day until our PD CEN virtual Study Day - “Food for thought. Research, service developments, and transforming ideas into action” 💻Online registration and agenda available here: pdcen.org/events_summary/ See you there!

Tomorrow is Swallowing Awareness Day! A chance of us to raise awareness about the impact of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties and how speech and language therapists can help. #SwallowAware2025 @RCSLT has created some great posters that explains more.

One day until our hybrid PD CEN event - 'Individualising Care In The Use of Thickened Fluids' 💻 Online registration and agenda available here: pdcen.org/events_summary/ 🔎 Read the RCSLT 2024 position paper beforehand here: rcslt.org/wp-content/upl… See you there!

Maya Asir, Specialist SLT at the Evelina Children’s Hospital and one of the lead authors of the RCSLT position paper on thickened fluids will be joining us at the PD CEN. Feel free to log any questions beforehand here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

For those joining us at the PD CEN event this week, 'Individualising Care In the Use of Thickened Fluids,' please review the RCSLT position paper on the use of thickened fluids beforehand here: rcslt.org/wp-content/upl…

Looking forward to our hybrid PD CEN this Thursday 21st November: Individualising Care In The Use Of Thickened Fluids Online registration still available via our web page pdcen.org/events_summary/

We have just discovered some of the contact forms from the website have not been getting through to the web team. Forms sent after 10th October are being processed. If you contacted the team before 10th October please fill in the form again, or alternatively email info@pdcen.org

🌟PDCEN are excited to announce that our bursary has increased from £750 to a whopping £1000! Summer is a great time to start planning your CPD, this could be attending a conference, a course, carrying out research or anything related to development within #PaedsDysphagia 🌟