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Have your say! 📣

The RCSLT are looking for those with a lived experience of cleft to share their views on their Cleft Lip & Palate Guidance.

To read the guidance and complete the survey (15-20 minutes), please visit buff.ly/MnxsD2W
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
speechapraxia.bsky.social
@RCSLT CEO @SteveJamieson and @RuthRowntree (Founder, @SpeechApraxiaUK) discussing our fantastic organisation
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
speechapraxia.bsky.social
@RCSLT CEO @Steve Jamieson and @Ruth Rowntree (Founder, @Speech Apraxia UK) discussing our fantastic organisation.
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
💥 Breaking news: RCSLT responds to Curriculum Review!

✅ inclusive definition of oracy - spoken & non-verbal communication, sign language, AAC
✅ oracy framework
✅ adaptations for children with SEND

🚨 But more still to do as shown in our news story.
www.rcslt.org/news/rcslt-r...
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 Delighted and proud that the RCSLT is amongst these 30+ organisations calling for Govt action to fix the neuro workforce crisis.

📢 We need a stronger, modernised, multidisciplinary workforce to meet rising demand and deliver the best possible care.

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The logos of 30+ organisations that have signed a consensus statement calling on the UK to fix the neuro workforce crisis. The statement has been coordinated by the Neurological Alliance.
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
carolinebowen.bsky.social
Hello 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, SLT advocates, parents of children & young people with #SLCN & other dedicated #childSPEECHdis #devLANGdis 💃🕺movers & shakers. The #INVESTinSLT push has important implications internationally. Please amplify📣 this message 🇬🇧 #budget2025🇬🇧 #budget25🇬🇧 @ukparliament.parliament.uk
RCSLT letterhead Statement on the need to Invest in SLT - 27 October 2025 This statement is issued on behalf of Mikey Akers, Louisa Akers, Francesca Beard, Samantha Berry, Dave Harford, Georgia Leckie, Karen Massey, Sharon Oliphant,Gillian Rudd, Pam Slater, and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.* Nine months ago today (27 October) the House of Commons debated the Invest in SLT petition. We were delighted that our briefing for the debate was supported by over 40 organisations and by the very powerful contributions from MPs of all parties calling on the Government to increase investment in services and better plan for the speech and language therapy workforce. We were also encouraged by the Government’s response and by the pledge the Government made to the Invest in SLT team in March that they would work with us on an action plan to tackle the issues affecting access to speech and language therapy. We regret that seven months on that action plan has not yet appeared. So, today, and with the Budget on 26 November in sight, we are calling on the Government to do two things: 1) Ensure that the forthcoming Budget provides sufficient resources to the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, and other relevant Government Departments, so they can increase investment in speech and language therapy. 2) Publish the speech and language therapy action plan which they discussed with us in March. People of all ages with communication disability, difficulty, or difference, and those with eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties, and their families and carers have already waited too long for the barriers to accessing speech and language therapy to be removed. They should not have to wait any longer. Working with you, we will do all we can to make things better for people with communication and/or swallowing needs. But we need the Government to act – and to act now. Those we work with and represent deserve no less.
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
📢 RCSLT highlighted the need to #InvestInSLT in our submission to The Treasury's Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation and referenced @mikeys-wish.bsky.social's petition.

▶️ Read our submission in full:
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Screenshot of RCSLT submission to the Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation. Screenshot of RCSLT submission to the Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation. Screenshot of RCSLT submission to the Autumn Budget 2025/Spending Review consultation.
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
apinchofsalts.bsky.social
Long overdue but great to finally see the #RCSLT has spoken up against #facilitatedCommunication and the like.
www.rcslt.org/members/deli...
Facilitated communication | RCSLT
www.rcslt.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
methodsmcr.bsky.social
📢 Speaker announcement - Dr Jill Bradshaw
Jill's session is titled "Talking Mats in research and practice"
Consultant Speech & Language Therapist; RCSLT National Clinical Adviser for Learning Disabilities; Jill founded the @talkingmats.bsky.social Research Network
Book your free space now 👇👇
methodsmcr.bsky.social methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · 24d
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Bringing together academics, practitioners, parents, autistic young adults ♾️ to create ethical methods for including non-speaking neurodiverse people in research
Sign up now 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
gillianrudd.bsky.social
Calling all speech and language therapy colleagues and partners! Come join our #SLTeaParty at @mybcu.bsky.social on 14th November marking 80 years of RCSLT ⤵️
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
SLTea Party: Celebrating 80 Years
Join us on Friday 14 November, 1–3.30pm for ‘SLTea Party: Celebrating 80 Years’, a free event at our City South Campus.
www.bcu.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 New briefing alert!

🔍 Here's the RCSLT's full analysis of the 10 Year Health Plan for England:
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Screenshot of a RCSLT briefing on the 10 Year Health Plan for England.
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
autisticrealms.bsky.social
Similar to RCSLT letter
theautisticadvocate.com/an-open-lett...
RCSLT Autism Guidance
RCSLT Autism Guidance for SLTs - Read and comment on the Autism community's response to the RCSLT's propospals
theautisticadvocate.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
rcotpolicyuk.bsky.social
🏛️ Everyone should be able to take part in our democracy.

RCOT joins RCSLT and 30+ organisations in the #InclusiveParliament coalition calling for a UK Parliament that works for everyone — including people with communication disabilities, difficulties or differences.
October 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 To mark #WorldHomelessDay here's the coalition RCSLT brought together last year calling for greater awareness of:

1⃣ the links between homelessness & speech, language & communication needs
2⃣ how speech & language therapy can support people experiencing homelessness

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The logos of organisations supporting a statement on speech and language therapy in homelessness.
October 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
socworkscot.bsky.social
Our delegates delved into workshops led by facilitators from all across Scotland: SCRA, @cycjscotland.bsky.social, Glasgow City Council HSCP, RCSLT, @perthandkinross.bsky.social Family Change, and @abshirecouncil.bsky.social Children's Wellbeing Team👥. Huge thanks to all!

#swsconf25
October 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
dr-radha.bsky.social
Delighted to be a keynote speaker for @rcslt and to meet their incredible members who do such impactful work for patients and their families
#RCSLTConf2025

✨ “The Power of Words: Inspiring Change from Within”

🎟️ Early Bird tickets are ending soon, get yours now! 

👉 @RCSLT
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
coursebeetle.co.uk
DEAP Assessment for Children with SSD - 15/10/25 📆

Gain the skills and confidence to administer the DEAP assessment during this half-day course. DEAP assessment is recommended by @rcslt as part of core assessments for children.

Book here: coursebeetle.co.uk/courses/deap/

#BlueSkySpeechies
A Speech and Language Therapist sits at a table with a young boy. The boy wears a yellow sweatshirt. The SLT is using a teddy bear hand puppet during a therapy session.
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
thercot.bsky.social
It's almost time for the Advanced Practice webinar! You can still register to join.

Join us, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and our partners across care and health for this online event.

📆 Wednesday 8 October
🕧 12.30–1.30pm
🎟️ Register now: https://loom.ly/TapLArU
Text reads: Looking to the future - AHP advanced Practice Shaping the future direction of advanced practice for AHPs. 12.30 - 1.30pm, Wednesday 8 October. graphic is of a person writing at a desk
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
jodeeslt.bsky.social
As neurodivergent professionals, we feel directly oppressed and endangered by this vilification.

We call on the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and all speech and language therapists to speak out. Silence is not neutrality—it is complicity.
September 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
jaimehoerricks.bsky.social
This isn’t scholarship—it’s marketing. Bryant et al.’s ‘no evidence’ review of GLP/NLA is a sieve fine enough to call the ocean empty: enclosure disguised as science, delivered to RCSLT as brand promotion.

open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
When “No Evidence” Means “We Refused to Look:” Enclosure Masquerading as Science
What the RCSLT Webinar Won’t Tell You About Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 The #SENDInTheSpecialists coalition, of which the RCSLT is a member, has issued a statement on the 'Solving the SEND crisis' report.

✅ We welcome the recommendation on a joint SEND work plan between the Education and Health and Social Care Departments.

#SENDInquiry #SEND #SENDWorkforce

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SEND in The Specialists coalition statement on the Education Select Committee's inquiry into 'Solving the SEND crisis'.
September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
abracabadger.com
What a grand day at the #RCSLT Scotland day. Delighted to be a part of this inspiring profession.  @sarahheatley.bsky.social & I shared the work we've been doing with collaborators in Dundee to create a communication accessible city.
Hooray for the excellent NHS Tayside adult acquired SLT service.
Abi and Sarah stand in front of a screen, smiling at the camera. The screen shows a slide with the words "Influence: is it possible?" 10 smiling speech and language therapists assembled in front of a flowery backdrop showing a sign which says "RCSLT Scotland"
September 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
claireclarkslt.bsky.social
Absolutely fantastic day at the #RCSLT Scottish hub day. A wee contribution by myself and @sltros.bsky.social with a lightening talk on how we have used data in developing SLT frailty services but really enjoyed brilliant and challenging talks on AI and leadership
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
thercot.bsky.social
Are you interested in finding out how social justice is shaping the future of advanced practice for the Allied Health Professions (AHP)?

Join our online event with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).

📆12.30–1.30pm, Wednesday 8 October
🎟️https://loom.ly/TapLArU
Text reads: Looking to the future - AHP advanced Practice Shaping the future direction of advanced practice for AHPs. 12.30 - 1.30pm, Wednesday 8 October. graphic is of a person writing at a desk
September 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🚨 David also asked @karinsmythmp.bsky.social at the DHSC about the 'A Profession Under Pressure' report by @gillianrudd.bsky.social.

😊 Massive RCSLT thanks to David for asking these questions about the report.

#ProfessionUnderPressure

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September 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM