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How Computing Fun Is Helping Children to Speak and Spell Project3:Layout 1 24/6/08 17:07 Page 1 RCSLT July 08 P3.Qxd:RCSLT JUNE Contents P3 23/6/08 17:36 Page 1 RCSLT_July 08_cover:Layout 1 18/6/08 17:28 Page 1 July 2008 • Issue 675 How computing fun is helping children to speak and spell Project3:Layout 1 24/6/08 17:07 Page 1 RCSLT_July 08_p3.qxd:RCSLT_JUNE_ Contents p3 23/6/08 17:36 Page 1 July 2008 • Issue 675 July 2008 • Issue 675 Photolibrary COVER STORY: How computing fun is helping children to speak and spell See pages 18-19 for details CONTENTS 4 Editorial, letters 6 News: The best of days in Wales; Stroke Royal College of Speech survivors struggle in Northern Ireland; UK Connect and Language Therapists 5k run; The accolades keep coming for City Lit; AAC 2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX in Scotland, and much more Telephone: 020 7378 1200 Email: [email protected] 12 Bulletin readership survey Website: www.rcslt.org 15 Obituary President Sir George Cox 16 Caroline Bishop and Sarah Hulme: language group Senior Life Vice President Sir Sigmund Sternberg training for children’s centre staff in Camden Vice Presidents Simon Hughes MP Baroness Jay 18 Frances Girling and Michael Jones: a computer-based assessment and learning programme linking language Chair Rosalind Gray Rogers development and reading Deputy Chair Mary Turnbull 20 Anne Mayne: the 65th anniversary meeting of the American Cleft Hon Treasurer Ann Whitehorn Palate-Craniofacial Association Professional Director Kamini Gadhok 21 Jane Stokes: from Lambeth to Accra Editor Steven Harulow Deputy Editor Grace McCann 22 Any questions: Ask your colleagues and share your knowledge Contributing Editor Digna Bankovska 23 Book reviews Publisher Ten Alps Publishing plc Design Courts Design Ltd 24 Quick look dates: Essential dates for your CPD diaries 25 Your speech and language therapy job ads Disclaimer: The bulletin is the monthly magazine of the Royal College of Speech and Language 35 Specific Interest Groups: The latest meetings and events around the UK Therapists. The views expressed in the bulletin are not necessarily the views of the College. Publication does not imply endorsement. Publication of advertisements in the bulletin is not an endorsement of the advertiser or of the products and services advertised. ISSN 14366-173X RCSLT_July 08 - p4-5:RCSLT_Dec 07 p4-5 News 23/6/08 16:58 Page 4 editorial and letters Bulletin LETTERS Your June Bulletin thrives on your letters and emails Write to the editor, RCSLT, 2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX email: [email protected] Let me start this month by apologising for the Please include your postal address and extremely late arrival of your June issue of Bulletin, telephone number. Letters may be edited which many of you will not have received until for publication (250 words maximum) about 12 June. The problem was caused by the fact that the Bulletin printers unexpectedly went into financial administration with copies of the magazine and Diving Bell excellent associated inserts still in its warehouse. I have finally managed to see the film The Diving Although our contract publishers managed to Bell and the Butterfly. With some difficulty I recover most of the magazines and arranged to send found a cinema showing it. them to another printer, this obviously took time The beautifully imagined book of the same and delayed the final mailing. name by Jean-Dominique Bauby, painfully “My apologies My apologies go to all readers and advertisers slowly dictated with the help of his SLT and go to all who were affected by this problem. others, was inspiring enough for me to read, but readers and We are currently negotiating with our suppliers to the film was excellent. ensure that this situation does not happen again. Jean-Do was Editor of Elle magazine and advertisers All this took place while I was congratulating suffered with ‘locked -in syndrome’ in the 1990s, who were myself on the phenomenal success of the March leaving him with voluntary control over only his Bulletin reader survey. left eyelid. affected by We received an amazing 2,958 replies via the reply I believe every SLT, student or experienced, this problem” paid cards, the online survey and email. On final should see this film. It touches and reminds us of balance these represent a 22% response rate; a the heavy responsibility we in our profession fantastic effort by all concerned. hold, to help release someone from a prison of We have now processed all the replies and on ineffective communication into freedom of life pages 12-13 I have summarised your thoughts and and choice. detailed the profile of the ‘average’ Bulletin reader. What a shame the film has not received a Your responses have been very interesting and we wider audience in those huge cinemas showing are already taking steps to implement some of the society-crushing movies. changes you have requested. But we can all still read the book and Over the next few weeks we will look in detail at champion all those children, young people and your suggestions and try to make your Bulletin an adults who experience these feelings today, which even better professional magazine. we as SLTs so often forget in the reality of our I would like to take this opportunity to thank busy work. Karen Buckley, Shirley Pollaya and Rachel Bleach for their efforts in opening every postal reply and Louise Lisle entering the information into the electronic Manager, Somerset Total Communication database. Learning difficulties research We are planning a research project on current practice in assessment and intervention with Steven Harulow Bulletin editor Email: [email protected] 4 bulletin July 2008 www.rcslt.org RCSLT_July 08 - p4-5:RCSLT_Dec 07 p4-5 News 23/6/08 16:59 Page 5 editorial and letters Sponsored by children and adults with profound and We were established in 2001 by a group February 1976 multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). of younger stroke survivors from In our experience SLTs use a diverse Tottenham. Should we be considering our range of approaches with this client Since then, the group has steadily terminology? Articles in the latest group, both direct and indirect, with little increased in size from 50 in 2003 to 90 in edition of the Journal constantly guidance from the rather thin evidence 2008 with an average age of about 45. referred to “stuttering”, although base. We want to find out what We provide services which help enhance most therapists I know call it approaches you are using with your clients mobility, boost confidence and reduce the “stammering”. and why you have chosen them and we sense of isolation experienced by stroke I have always understood that hope this will provide information of real survivors. “stammering” was the English word for the interest to practitioners. Also, by sharing our experience of stroke, American “stuttering” and I was once In order that the results are available to we learn from each other, exchange coping intrigued to read in the Doctor Column of everyone, we will submit a summary of strategies and discover new skills and values a well-known Women’s Magazine that key findings to Bulletin on the project’s that equip us to move back into the world. “stuttering” consisted of repetition of completion. We meet on Monday and Wednesday sounds or syllables, whereas “stammering” Our project is currently undergoing mornings at the Central Library, Wood was characterised by marked hesitations ethical review but we anticipate getting Green N22, which is convenient for buses and “blocks”. the go ahead to start very soon. It is and for Wood Green Tube station on the On a lighter note, I have an eight-year- questionnaire based and should take Piccadilly Line. old patient who insists on calling his defect about 30 minutes to complete. If you would like to help please contact “spluttering”, which is not altogether You will hear about the project through me at: [email protected] or inappropriate! SIGs in related areas or in the CPD e- tel: 020 8340 4359 / 0775 241 3223. newsletter, however, we don’t want to miss Linda Tarbox anyone out. John Murray So, if you are currently working with Coordinator, Different Strokes London North April 1976 any clients who might be described as Group having PMLD please participate as we After many years of limited publicity it is want to gain as accurate a picture as encouraging to note the increasing coverage possible. FROM THE ARCHIVES being given to all aspects of our work by the If you think you might be interested, media and popular press. please email us on [email protected] July 1949 This shift of interest must surely be with “pmld” as the subject. greeted with enthusiasm by us all. On March 18th I gave a lecture at New Is there not however, a danger that in our Juliet Goldbart, Darren Chadwick, Susan Ham, for parents and teachers on “The enthusiasm we may be insufficiently Buell Use of the Speech Therapy Clinic”. The objective as to how aspects of our work are Research Institute for Health & Social lecture lasted an hour, and was followed our presented? It behoves us to ensure that Change, Manchester Metropolitan by keen questions. I thereupon initiated a any examples of therapeutic techniques University group to visit my Woking Speech Therapy presented to the general public are of the Clinic, which they did, and were highest standards, that interviews and tremendously interested. I think more of articles do not misrepresent our work and Volunteer for these informal meetings and contacts that the resultant publicity will enhance Different Strokes should be made whenever possible, as rather than detract from the profession’s among Educationalists, medical men and image. The London North Group of Different women, and indeed most adults, there is We demand high standards and good Strokes are looking for a volunteer speech still only the vaguest idea of the ground judgement as clinicians – let us see these and language therapist to run a class for we cover, and of the possible benefits to aspects reflected in the publicity the an hour on Wednesday mornings for a the patient.
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