Lucy Atkinson
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🗣 Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist 💫 All views my own 📝 Creator of The Little Speech Bubble
Manchester, England
Joined July 2014
This webinar was SO informative tonight. Feel like I've got a much clearer view on the overlap/differences with SM & ASD. Handy thinking of the term 'reactive mutism' to describe the different presentation when it's not SM but it's 'something'. Thank you so much, Andy! 😊
Autistic young people regularly report receiving the wrong support when they experience difficulties with communication - which has motivated us to create this webinar on autism and selective mutism. The webinar is recorded:
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‼️‼️IPAD UPDATE …. PLS SHARE THIS‼️‼️ Bolton Schools work with a FAB TEAM at Bolton ICT -on Sunday they turned all our iPads into ‘lost mode’ - they are USELESS to anyone PLS keep your eyes open for them. It doesn’t pay to STEAL from our CHILDREN! @BoltonSICT
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This is absolutely awful - please share this post in case it reaches anyone with any info on this 🙏
‼️‼️Pls keep your eyes open, for our IPads. ‼️‼️They are all labelled & security marked. Our school has been broken into this evening & the thieves have taken our children’s iPads. 😢 If you hear anything pls contact the police or email school.
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Plenty to think about following the National SM CEN today 💡 thank you to all the speakers & @national_sm_cen for organising
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⏰️ With just 5️⃣ hours to midnight, you've made @MikeysWish_VDA's #InvestInSLT petition one of the most popular - again. ❤️ Massive @RCSLT thanks. 🗣 Now let's get Mikey the 2️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ signatures he needs to hit 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣. ➡️ https://t.co/O6F8pi3pne
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❕Did you know that: - We only need 270 more signatures for Government to respond to the #InvestInSLT petition? - All British citizens and UK residents can sign? - There is no minimum age requirement? (Here is my 8yo signing it!) ❔Can we get to 10,000 signatures today?? ✍🏿✍️✍🏼
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It's such a privilege to be part of someone's journey into their career in SaLT. All the time and effort being a practice educator is so worth it when you can see the development in a student. Incredibly grateful for the kind words my student has shared, it really means a lot 🌟
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Just finished having a final run through of my Selective Mutism training for tomorrow. I'm so excited to be delivering SM training to our CAMHS colleagues & feel hopeful that this may be the start of some wonderful collaborative working 🌟 #selectivemutism
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I've just seen that the theme of children's mental health week is 'My Voice Matters' - how amazing! 🌟
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Statement from UK national charity SMiRA on the use of "situational mutism" Vs "selective mutism". Please RT and share. #selectivemutism #situationalmutism
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SO excited for 2024 for a number of reasons, both personally & professionally 🌟 Today felt like there was a huge step forward with an idea of mine at work 💡 really channelling my new found confidence & rolling with it as long as I can! 💪🏼
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Such a lovely part of my day - back at my old primary school for careers week, spreading the news about how wonderful Speech and Language Therapy is as a career ❤🌟 the children were absolutely brilliant & asked fantastic questions. Thank you for having me @SSAMprimary 😊
Our final visitors for Careers Week were Dom Carey - an area manager for Tesco - and Lucy Balchin who is a Speech and Language therapist. Year 6 have had an insight into many jobs and careers this week and have impressed all our visitors with their questions and contributions.
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Had a huge shock when I realised the children's comic I picked up, purely for the SpiderMan/IronMan stickers inside, cost £5.99!! But it will be 100% worth it to surprise the children I work with, with stickers of their favourite superheroes at the end of their sessions 🌟
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Ready to start the course 'Working with Teens and Adults with Selective Mutism' by Susannah Thomson this morning 🌟 So lucky & grateful to have won a place as part of SM Awareness month 🎉
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So far this week, I've supported a new speech sounds group, joined a session of forest school for observations, had a meeting with CAMHS to discuss our SM pathway, discussed coaching skills - alongside the usual assessment & treatment appointments too... & it's only Wednesday! 🌟
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People generally have a hard time understanding SM. Swipe through to hear how Jonathan Kohlmeier, a SMA Board of Directors member, best explains SM. Head to the link below to read the full post. https://t.co/Ip1Pj4AtDv
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Very blessed to work in a wonderful team; we were invited to head in to work early before our team meeting this morning, so we could eat breakfast together and have a catch up. Connecting with each other is so important & it's amazing that it's valued by our leaders too 🌟
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After explaining my job to a little one I'm working with on my Selective Mutism caseload, they turned to me and said "maybe you could help me find my voice in school?" 🥺 so sweet & brave! I really do have the best job & have the privilege to work with the bravest young people 🤍
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Thank you so much to the talented year 6 @SSAMprimary who designed & made this wonderful bird box as part of their DT lessons 🐦 I absolutely LOVE it, all my favourite things 🌸🦋🐝🌳🌿 I can't wait to place it in the garden & keep an eye open for any inhabitants! Thank you 🤍
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Today I cried happy tears (after the meeting!) at the amazing progress one of the young people I work with has made 🎉 Young people with Selective Mutism have to be so brave & determined to overcome it. Being part of their journey is a privilege. I really do have the best job 🤍
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