Sue Foster
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Christian. Loves baking, good food. Building a healthier lifestyle. Speech and Language Therapist
Northamptonshire, UK
Joined August 2009
Time to delete unnecessary emails and reduce carbon footprint #GreenerAHPs @NHFTNHS
Did you know a short email sent & received on a laptop has a carbon footprint equivalent to 0.3g of CO2? (Longer emails, attachments & more recipients can increase this). Credit: Stuart Kinton @OUHospitals 📧🌍 check out these tips 👇
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🚨 Some fantastic news as we approach the end of this year about something fantastic happening at the start of next year! 🗣️ @MikeysWish_VDA's #InvestInSLT petition is going to be debated on 27 January 2025. 📋 Look out for @RCSLT's @RCSLTpolicy briefing in the New Year.
ON MONDAY 27TH JANUARY 2025, MY PETITION CALLING FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO INVEST IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SERVICES IS GOING TO BE DEBATED! 🎉🎉🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who signed and shared the petition and helped us get it noticed. @HoCpetitions
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There are four key barriers to pupils' learning that every teacher needs to manage. What are you using to address these barriers? Challenge 1 - be crystal clear what you are teaching & what you expect pupils to learn. Design tasks that focus on that learning. 1/4
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🎙️ Thrilled to be featured on @RCSLT's first podcast episode about AI in speech & language therapy, sharing my experiences of using AI tools in clinical practice. Thanks @RCSLT for this platform to discuss how we can thoughtfully integrate AI to benefit our service users 🙏#SLT
Today we launch a mini series of @RCSLT chats with people using #AI in speech & language therapy. In the 1st, @RachelBartonSLT talks about her journey from sceptic to advocate & offers ideas on how others might approach AI. #slts #digitalhealth #ahps ➡️ https://t.co/RpsTPgB4WP
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First-Time Buyers can get up to £1,000/yr free in a Lifetime ISA. Here’s my video briefing on how it works and why you should put at least £1 in one. Courtesy of @itvMLshow, watch the full first time buyers saving info on: https://t.co/qBowS6wN6a
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Permanent Band 7 role for an experienced Band 6 or existing Band 7 SLT. Working in mainstream schools & overseeing our speech pathway, there is lots of scope to support service development, develop leadership skills while maintaining a clinical caseload
careers.nelft.nhs.uk
We are actively recruiting for a wide range of career opportunities. View our current vacancies and apply today!
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Calling UK Paediatric SLTs Researchers at City are seeking to find out more about how SLTs select intervention goals and content. If you would like to help, please complete our survey: https://t.co/PnxjhcgUQF This will take about 40 minutes. Please share with others if you can.
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I’ve tightened up,polished off & added a few more methods for retrieval practice to my editable PowerPoint.There are now 25 methods which can be easily edited, resized & printed.Drop me a DM with your email and I’ll send it on. Useful for all KSs. I won’t fiddle with it anymore!
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Ajay Tegala, one of the wardens at WickenFenNT, will be in conversation with Francis Pryor at our late Nov event. Both have a vast wealth of knowledge to share about this important wetland habitat. 29/11 All welcome! https://t.co/tCXeGnbQHu
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Amazing news for #oliverscampaign. If you are in the NHS and have not yet heard about it - where have you been? The training is excellent raising awareness of issues pertinent to autistic people and people with learning disabilities, co-presented by people with lived experience
#Oliverscampaign I have the MOST incredible news to tell you The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability & Autism has WON the NHS Parliamentary Awards for the Excellent in Training Award I can’t thank everyone involved enough but most of all Thank you OLIVER
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'She becomes a carer after half a century of marriage' Veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart spoke to #BBCBreakfast about living with vascular dementia and the 'demeaning' impact on his wife Sally https://t.co/ajdmGDq4T1
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We tell pupils to study, but have we actually taught them how to study?? Today I finished off my ‘How to study: a simple guide on how to study smarter not harder’ PowerPoint. Hopefully will help senior pupils learn how to study effectively ✨
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@TheFigen_ This film with a duration of about 2 minutes took only 30 minutes to shoot and went to become an Oscar winning short film. Such a beautiful message it gives.
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This film lasts only 4 minutes and it won an Oscar ... Intense, but it conveys tremendous reality, empathy and putting ourselves in other people's shoes ... Knowing how to recognize your mistakes and knowing that others also have their problems and empathizing is precious ...
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The first LIVELY paper is out looking at the changes early years settings made in early language and communication support in response to covid restrictions in the uk and learning from that.
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COVID-19 impacted all aspects of children's lives. Research showed that teachers were most concerned about Communication and Language, and Personal, Social...
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If you can, plse do support @Independent ‘s Brick by Brick campaign to build a safe refuge for domestic abuse survivors 👇
‘My father beat me with a spoon, hit me with a belt, and threw scalding soup over me’ @vicderbyshire bravely shares the abuse her family endured as she backs The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign to build a safe refuge for domestic abuse survivors. ➡️ https://t.co/BI756vKhCC
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If you are and #SLT who works with children with speech disorders, someone who teaches clinical phonetics, or a student SLT please do take a look at our website. Lots of cool features like a clickable #ExtIPA chart. Feedback welcome!
Hello #phonetics #SLT #speechies #slt2b we're excited to say that STAR https://t.co/pNX9iiFsT2 and SpeechSTAR https://t.co/Y90L4fCEmY are now live, sister to #SeeingSpeech
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@DrJoanneCleland, @jhstuartsmith, @Strath_SLT @strath_psh @UniStrathclyde @ESRC
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Every day you are eating oils that were only used in industrial machines just 100 years ago. They're making you fat & destroying your health. And you don't even realize it. THREAD
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🔓 Our systematic review comparing intervention techniques for SSD + #devlangdis (preschool) Overseen by our awesome steering group @dharford79 @SophieFranksDLD @amer_meriem @EmmaBakerSLT
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Objectives To descriptively compare and contrast intervention techniques for preschool children with features of developmental language disorder (outcome: oral vocabulary) and speech sound disorder...
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In my mid 40's I started to get hip pain. I went to a doctor who told me I'd have to live with the pain the rest of my life. I said screw that, searched for a solution, and fixed my hips. Here's how I did it:
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Happy to share 4 pages of strategies to support multilingual learners in your classrooms—just in time for back to school! #EAL #CPD #edutwitter #multilingual #MLs
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