Emma Jayne

Starting your first SLT job as an #NQP soon? Our NQP buddy Sophia shares her must-have toolkit items for every paeds SLT! ⭐ What would you add? Let us know what’s been essential in your first year. #NQPSLT #slt2be @RCSLT @SLTatBCU

Our AAC lead Amy is sharing practical tips on How to Support AAC Use in the Classroom — Small changes, big impact! 🙌 ⬇️ How else can you make AAC a natural part of everyday classroom life? #AAC #totalcommunication #inclusivity #wearyourwords

We're excited to share our updated Speech Sound Leaflets—covering general advice, phonological processes, and intervention tips ⬇️ Want to support children with speech sound difficulties? Ask us about our 3-part webinar series 🤗 #ssd #speechsounds #slcn #speechtherapytips

Join us for Practical Guidance on Differential Diagnosis for speech sound disorders with @Bammo44 starting next Wednesday 📆 🎟️ tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/practical-gu… If you can’t attend all the dates recordings will be available/you can purchase individual tickets.

🎙 Upcoming Talk by Professor Suze Leitão “They don't realise how hard he has to try every day” Join us for a powerful and insightful online discussion on DLD 📅 May 1st 🕙 10 AM BST / 5 PM ASWT 📍 Online Event 🎟 Free tickets available – e-dld.ticketbud.com/a-paper-discus…... #DevLangDis

"I had nothing but help along the way" ❤️ Alan Jones shares his incredible journey of regaining his ability to swallow after surgery thanks to support from our Speech & Language Team ⭐ Alan's story highlights why #SwallowAwarenessDay is crucial for health & quality of life 🙌

Our Speech&Language Therapists from acute, community, paediatric, disability & healthcare in prison teams spread the word about swallowing difficulties. We are here to help for anyone with swallowing troubles #swallowaware2025 @lorrainecoulte4 @joshannonpt @CMDickson100

Another lovely training session this afternoon with school 🪀🧸 I love to compare the language used at the beginning vs the end of a training session. Take home messages: honour all communicative attempts, reduce the questions, model the language, get to the child’s level! 🔑❤️

Our Level 6 student Rukhsana has joined us! 🤩 As part of her induction, her student Buddy Elle has created this—packed with key contacts & common acronyms she’ll hear working with #SLTs in education. We’re so glad to have her on board! 👏✨ #SLTStudent #slt2be #SaLTPlacement

Looking forward to seeing lots of people on Saturday!! @setrust 👩‍💻💼📋

Back to delivering a face to face training session on ‘Total communication’ this afternoon with a group full of incredible teachers and classroom assistants… oh how I have missed it!! 🥹💕 I used to dread those final questions/discussions but now they’re one of my favourites!!

Children's mental health week Before a child can flourish, they need to feel happy and safe.

Bit emotional watching the #investinSLT debate that took place in parliament today, MP’s not only highlighting the huge impact on the children but the high levels of burnout for SLT’s due to high workloads and the impact of this on staff retention.

Ruth Sedgewick, Head of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists NI, reacts to the Education Minister’s Transforming Education for Children with Special Educational Needs Agenda

Lots of scraping, planning, painting and cleaning later and my wee home is ready for another person to love for a while 🤍🤍🤍 I will be missing these views each morning but I will not be changing career to builder/decorator 😅😅

Excellent opportunity for anyone interesting in leading the Children’s community SLT team in Bangor! 🤩🤩 Applications close on Tuesday so be quick!! 🏎️

The halls of Lisburn Primary Community Care Centre are truly aDOORable! 🚪✨ Our Children’s Services staff got creative with their Christmas Door Competition, bringing festive cheer and raising vital funds for NI Hospice 💜🎄 Which door is your favorite? Let us know! 👇

CalebsCauseNI Create legislation for Post-19 Special Educational Needs Northern Ireland - Sign the Petition! chng.it/tdCk4dxYNR via @UKChange

We were pleased to host @tennysonCAHPO @naomi_long and @paulgivan at our annual conference. We’re calling on Depts of Justice and Education to work closely with Health to fund and support SLT in a more collaborative way. Positive signs ahead. Read here: 👇🏼 newsletter.co.uk/community/spee…

@Lilias_Jeffery the all round SLT queen 👑👑