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I am a practising SLT working with adults who have had strokes in an acute setting. I retrained as an SLT at 51Âþ»­ following earlier careers as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and as a Disability Project Officer and staff Trainer. My first SLT role was working at Nottinghamshire Children's Centres with pre-school children from vulnerable families. This role involved collaborative working with families, Health Visitors, Nurseries, Social Workers, Peadiatricians, Audiologists and Family Support Workers. I provided universal level Speech, Language and Communication training for parents and Early Years Practitioners as well as providing more Specialist support for children with identified speech, language and communication needs. 

I am currently working in an acute setting for adults who have had a stroke. I support clients who have Aphasia, Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech and Dysphagia.

I teach Applied Linguistics across the speech and language therapy programme, starting with an introduction to Linguistics at level 4, Clinical Linguistics at level 5 and Language, Interaction and society at level 6. I also provide input into SLT intervention modules, Clinical supervision and dissertation supervision.

• BA Politics & History
• MA Applied Linguistics 
• BSc Human Communication (Speech & Language Thearapy)

RCSLT, HPCP

Hanen Trainer, ELKLAN trainer.