Laura Holmes
lauraholmestm.bsky.social
Laura Holmes
@lauraholmestm.bsky.social
Senior Associate at Talking Mats Ltd. Speech and Language Therapist by trade. Everyone has a right to have a voice and be listened to. Passionate about good communication, family, and tennis!
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🗣️ Open conversations about sexual health and relationships with confidence!

Join our advanced @talkingmats.bsky.social webinar and learn to facilitate meaningful discussions in a safe, structured, and supportive way. 🌿

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#InclusiveCommunication
Talking Mats Sexual Health | Course Beetle
This webinar focuses on the Talking Mats Sexual Health and Relationships resource which is supplied as part of the course fee.
coursebeetle.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Delighted to partner with @coursebeetle.bsky.social to deliver the next advanced course on using the Talking Mats sexual health & relationship resource, use helps understanding, assesses knowledge & opens up honest conversations coursebeetle.co.uk/courses/talk...
#socialworkers #lookedafterchildren
Talking Mats Sexual Health | Course Beetle
This webinar focuses on the Talking Mats Sexual Health and Relationships resource which is supplied as part of the course fee.
coursebeetle.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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This reminds us of the work we did with ARC Scotland when we worked with people with #learningdisabilities to become talking mats listeners, then they interviewed others receiving care about how their lives were going . This fabulous video was the final report arcscotland.org.uk/resources/fi...
March 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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It’s a great feature of 🦋 that you can curate your own feeds . This is a great one to pin to your feed if your are interested in inclusion , education, additional support needs, #ehcp #Send Thanks a lot @halfwayupagain.bsky.social
I've set the #SEND feed to capture these:
#SEND
#SENDCO
#NPQSEND
#SENCO
#SENDSKY
#EduSEND

And I've seen someone suggest adding \b on the feed builder to limit the capture to the shortened #. Apparently it could take a while to update so🤞
January 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Enabling people to think about an issue , weigh up their views & say what they feel, is what Talking Mats is all about. It’s an evidence based visual communication tool Find out more here www.talkingmats.com/about/what-i... Please give us a follow if you are interested in communication & inclusion.
What is a Talking Mat? - Improving Communication, Improving Lives
Talking Mats is a social enterprise whose vision is to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties. Improving communication and improving lives.
www.talkingmats.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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To kick start our monthly feature on our Research Network we are focusing on Dr Joan Murphy, Co-founder of Talking Mats and still actively involved in research.
Follow this link to her latest paper.
www.talkingmats.com/research/pub...
January 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!
January 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
New date and booking link will be live next week!
Great meeting with @juliapollock.bsky.social @lauraholmestm.bsky.social @loiscameron.bsky.social & others from the REACH team planning our online course exploring use of the sexual health & relationship TM resource . Feb course now fully booked but don’t worry we have set another date in June
Advanced TM 3 hour, online, courses are combined with a resource & allow you to build skills for using in different contexts, courses in 1. Sexual health & relationships 2. Planning for End of Life 3.Using TM in a capacity context . Book your place for 2025 now www.talkingmats.com/new-online-a...
January 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM