Our #ChildSLT team @bhamcommunity.bsky.social
wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thanks to Vicky, Andrea, Lucy, Helene, Amy and Dorrell for their fabulous Makaton demonstration 🎄🎅

It's December, and our teams will be working hard throughout the month to provide quality care to our patients and service users, but with a bit of festive fun! #adultrehabilitationBCHC #ChildBCHC #LDBCHC

One of our therapists attended a 2 day course led by Maggie Lee Huckabee on the neurology behind comprehensive dysphagia assessment and rehab last week. A very jam packed but incredibly informative couple of days! Learning doesn’t stop when you graduate ✏️📚🧠 #CPD

Happy AHP day to our fellow SLTs, OTs, physiotherapists, psychologists, dietitians, paramedics, and all other AHPs who we work closely alongside to assess and manage service users holistically!! #AHPsDay2025 #teamwork #MDT ❤️❤️

Had some great teaching from our nutrition nurses this afternoon on the different types of feeding tubes. It was interesting to hear about how they're inserted, how they're removed and why one may be used instead of another. Also loved the models!!

Our amazing Terry has been achieving some functional goals recently and wanted to share! - handwriting a birthday card for his niece, and joining the OT gardening club! #AdultRehabilitationBCHC #MDT #Neurorehab

Our brilliant Children's Dysphagia team presented at the West Midlands Neurodisability Study Day to Paediatricians and other professionals about MDT management of eating, drinking and swallowing 💪 Well done team!

#ChildSLTBCHC #ChildBCHC

Last month was #AphasiaAwarenessMonth - thank you to our lovely Stroke rehab SLT's and Apprentice for your work involving patients (‪@rockingaphasia.com‬) and raising the profile to staff in the hospital of what we do! 🗣️ #AdultRehabilitationBCHC

To finish off we have the SLT "case reviews" meeting. We discuss our caseloads, review long and short term goals, discuss current Dysphagia recommendations and Communication diagnoses and share any ideas on management of patients. 📈🤓

Then time for my own lunch, catching up with my peer Naz, and getting started on session planning for the next day. Tasks I've prepped:
Reading and comprehension 📖
Sequencing tasks 🔢➡️
Writing tasks✍️
#MySLTDay

Lunchtime was busy! I did a mealtime observation with a dysphagic patient - picking out a Level 5 Minced and Moist meal to assess them with and practiced using thickener to make a Level 2 Mildly Thick Orange Squash. Lots of IDDSI learning 🍲🥛🍽️

Now time for some admin...writing case notes and completing sections in a discharge report for one of the patients on my caseload ✍️📝

Our SLTA is setting up for communication group. I am joining to observe one of my clients to see their communication skills in a group setting 👥. Today’s activity is Guess the Occupation 💼

Come with me to our first patient in the sunny therapy garden 🌳- we have a few tasks lined up:🎯
Orientation Tasks 🧠
Using family pictures to assess yes/no ✔️🚫reliability and cognition
Match spoken word to object 👄
Match written word to object 📖

I like to start my day with a hot pot of porridge oats in the hospital cafeteria and plan my day 🍚🕒📅

Hi everyone! My name is Gaby. Come with me as I show you a typical day at Moseley Hall Hospital 🧠 💡👩‍ #MySLTDay