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Laura
@lmbfromthecle.bsky.social
Midwesterner (US-ian) 🌽 in West London 🌆. My old account got suspended. Speech and language therapist working in the NHS and in private practice. Passionate about executive function and its impact on speech, language and communication needs.
And I hope summer term will feel a bit easier! Starting as I mean to go on with discovering a new-to-me coffee shop!
April 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It's gotten a bit easier as the term has gone on, and it has been wonderful to get to know the CYP on my caseload, be a part of 'team around the family' meetings, and to have regular supervision and team meetings. But yeah, definitely going to try my best to switch off this week 4/n
April 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Annual review reports--how could I forget! Different terminology, understanding the scope of practice, trying to get to grips with targeted groups, having to model therapy to an LSA so they do it more than I do it (since it's not possible for me due to time constraints). 3/n
April 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Working directly with children and young people feels mostly the same, but getting to grips with the target sheets, packages of care, EHCNAs, the way to write up therapy notes, working in four different schools each week, GP assessment wait lists, etc has been a HUGE learning curve 2/
April 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today is my first day of a week's proper holiday/vacation since starting my NHS job in the mainstream and alternative provision schools. This first term was TOUGH. You'd think being a paediatric SLT would be transferrable from US to UK but I haven't found it that straightforward. 1/n
April 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is what I love about London. Just a small sampling of languages spoken at home by pupils in one of the secondary schools I work in.
March 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Eek! I haven't been on BlueSky for a long while. My old account got suspended. I guess it got hacked?? 😩😩😩
February 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM