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NZSTA Area Meeting Minutes Spring 2015
(to be held between 5th October and 31st October)
Number of Members present at meetings: Canterbury/Westland - 24 Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim – 19 Otago/Southland – 12 BoP/Waikato – 14 Central – 27 Auckland – 55 Northland - 10
Review of last Area Meeting Minutes Are there any further comments from collated area meeting minutes with EC responses? Central A number of members agreed that it is nice to see collated minutes before meeting
Submission to Parliament
Thank you to everyone who supported us in writing a submission for the Parliamentary Inquiry. The submission is currently being written and will reflect the views of members.
Otago/Southland
Discussion around this submission – Some members of the area completed the submission. They found it was a very in-depth survey. Ministry of Education therapists could not submit a response that was associated with the Ministry i.e. had to complete the submission in personal time using a personal email address. A question was raised whether it would have been more beneficial for individuals to submit directly, rather than collectively through the NZSTA?
New Graduate Framework In view of a few queries, just to clarify, the New Graduate Framework can be used immediately but should be consistently used with the new graduates graduating at the end of year. Any new graduates in practice this year are welcome to take it on OR continue with their current plan of supervision and support. Waikato/BoP Annabelle Blue: Been using this, has found it in-depth and useful. Would be good for new-grads who don’t have a huge amount of support by way of regular supervision.
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Canterbury/Westland In a transition phase. New grads at the moment don’t need to fill out CPD log, Kathy can print it but you can’t access it online. After this year there will be no provisional members. Auckland Reiterated that it comes into effect on 1 Jan 2016
Northland
It is good that this has been clarified, new graduates have been receiving different information on which framework they should use.
Cultural Competence Survey A reminder that this valuable research into the New Zealand environment is underway, please contact Karen Brewer at [email protected] for further details but the link to the survey is https://auckland.asia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6X90miHovXbuOPj The survey will remain open until 30th October It would be great to have SLT’s from all areas of the profession contribute to this research and please feel free to share this with non-member colleagues as well. Otago/Southland Several members had completed the survey already – they commented that it is a long survey. This had been approved by the Ministry of Education practice supervisor and has been distributed to all MoE SLTs to complete. Auckland Several therapists have completed it and Jessamy encouraged others to participate in
this research
Awareness Week Awareness week was held during the week of September 13-19. We saw many events taking place around the country as seen posted on our Facebook page. Thanks to Annette Rotherham our Communication s Portfolio holder for putting the theme together and to her local team of helpers for the website and Facebook posting, in particular to Danielle Waterhouse who set up the social media site with colourful banners and SLT facts, it was a huge success. We reached over 1000 likes to our Page and even had international attention. Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim Masterton Hospital did a wonderful speech language therapy topic quiz The Blenheim SLTs took the opportunity to get together as a group. A patient of Naomi Seow had a fabulous article in the Wellingtonian about Aphasia. This lead to a video clip on Stuff and a story on Seven Sharp. Otago/Southland Members liked that the NZSTA were proactive in using Facebook this year and all really liked the colourful banners/cover photos. They found these were really accessible and user-friendly. Several members participated in Awareness Week activities including morning teas, quizzes, fact of the day, AAC hour, noticeboard displays, and an article in The Star.
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Waikato/BoP Carla Knott: Thanks to Danielle Waterhouse for the great work she did on social media and resources – banners etc. were very useful. Karen Warn: Agreed. Was best-organised Awareness Week so far and was very easy for SLTs to engage in activities of Awareness Week. Canterbury/Westland Feedback from Annette Rotherham: Lots of enthusiasm this year, the themes were overarching and worked well across the different areas of SLT. Members did lots of work to assist the success of the week. 1 social media post reached 10,000 people, including internationally. Auckland Members really liked the electronic resources published by the NZSTA and would like
them to be made again next year. One member asked why “language” was omitted
from all of the electronic resources – this is our title and language is an important
aspect of our work.
Spectrum Care ordered a big cake and had a quiz, which went really well
Auckland uni made resources in the atrium
Communication Matters will be publishing information about awareness week
Central Sarah Martin – Anna Jerebine sent a quiz each day to the national team; also included the banners from the website at the end of e-mails Stewart Centre – Silent morning tea – all used AAC devices HBDHB – quiz sent to all staff; presented at grand rounds on FEES and VFSS TDHB – Afternoon tea for all dysphagia trained nurses via modified diet foods – trifle
for minced moist; sponge for soft; biscuits for normal; smoothie for thickened fluids.
Northland
Gay distributed SLT stickers around kindergartens. At the hospital there was a modified morning tea where staff could try different diets and fluids, and SLTs distributed lollies with SLT facts stuck to them around the wards.
Strategic Planning Twentytwenty Thank you to everyone who contributed ideas and suggestions regarding the Twentytwenty Strategic Plan for NZSTA. The Executive Council have taken all these suggestions and met on September 12th to begin the process of drafting our new Mission and Vision statements and putting together the themes of our objectives for the next five years. Here are the values agreed upon: Excellence, Strength, Partnership, Integrity, Professionalism, and Leadership. The Missions of NZSTA for the next five year have been determined as:
To guide and govern the clinical and ethical standards of SLT practice To facilitate and promote opportunities for SLT To represent the interests and views of SLTs
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To be responsive to Te Tiriti o te Waitangi To promote quality evidence based SLT practice
We would appreciate feedback on these Values and Mission Statements by the end of November. This feedback can be sent to [email protected], otherwise feedback can be provided during the area meeting. Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim Feel that the last point “to promote quality evidence based SLT practice” is a little bit airy fairy, and requires further clarity. The idea of “evidenced based” is quite broad, and has an area of personal bias. Some disappointment by lack of becoming a registered body – request for a why statement. Otago/Southland Members commented that the missions are great but fairly ‘wordy’. Would like to see measurable missions to be able to see exactly what the NZSTA is aiming to look like in 5 years’ time. What type of opportunities? Careers, Professional Development? Is there any way that NZSTA could utilize other countries resources i.e. ASHA, SPA –
rather than re-inventing the wheel? Waikato/BoP Karen Warn: Very positive, pro-active missions and values but also generic and vague. How do we measure outcomes of these missions and values? ‘Strength’ – strength in what? As a profession? We’re not yet a registered profession ‘Excellence’ – in what? Limitations i.e.; funding, resources. Deb McKellar: Missions don’t include anything about what makes our profession different to others - i.e. communication and swallowing Biddy Robb: agreed – they should be profession-specific. Carla Knott: ‘facilitate and promote opportunities for SLT’ – does this mean promote employment of SLTs? Or opportunities for PD? Career structure and development? Or promote opportunities for equal and easy access to SLT for all who need it? General consensus that it’s difficult to provide feedback on these values and missions until clear definitions are drafted. Auckland Philippa (President) briefly talked about the review and asked for feedback.
Discussion in small groups was completed:
o Discussion around who NZSTA is for – members or clients?
o Do we move away from having multiple key values, less is more?
o Visions:
Add something about communication/dysphagia
How are we changing lives?
“A thriving profession working in partnership to change lives
by … (encouraging/advocating) to empower everyone to be
able to communicate”
There is no mention about ‘advocate’
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Consider including Maori word in the values, e.g. manaaki –
tanga
It feels a bit business like – there is no strong connection felt
towards the current wording.
Change the word ‘change’ to ‘enhance’
Like these words: thriving, partnership, integrity,
professionalism
Should we not include a mention of who we work with as a
profession ‘communication, swallowing, voice, etc’
Is ‘thriving’ something that we can actually achieve? There are
so many external factors that can impact us as part of the
allied health team.
o Values:
What is the meaning of strength? Several asked this question.
Other words suggested: empathy, care, compassion, advocacy,
therapy
Don’t really know if we need the word ‘strength’. It is a difficult
concept to conceptualise and how does it apply to practice?
There is no mention of ethics/empathy – though perhaps
suggested by partnership/integrity
o Mission:
Like: ‘promoting quality evidence based SLT practice’
??? not sure about: govern in view that we will not be a
registered profession; does ‘promote opportunities for SLTs
mean PD opportunities or promote our interests to
government or clients;
Should there be something about promoting research and skill
development
Should it say something about ‘in the NZ context’
Should it say something about ‘collaboration with other
professionals’
Should it say something about ‘raising awareness all the time’
There was some discussion about whether the mission should
include something about “to represent the interests and views
of SLTs and clients”
The mission statement does not say who we are (professional
group) and who we work with.
o There is some complexity reconciling the roles of the NZSTA as a
professional body and my employer (who has its own values, visions
and mission statement, etc). Two groups commented on this.
o Whatever is written should be easy to read and remember.
o Maybe don’t need to separate the vision and mission as they pretty
much mean the same thing?
Central
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Hayley Keir emailed a query of why a mission is not to become a registered profession?
Sarah Martin – great to see broad headings that a lot can fit under
Jennifer Williams – some of the missions seem to be missions that should be there all the time for NZSTA. Jodi White commented that they need to be stated so that they remain at the fore front of the NZSTA
Marja Steur – where is the vision statement? Is strength a value? And if it is a strong profession we are aiming for then should it be a vision rather than a value.
Elisa Mynen – what is the view on becoming a stronger self-regulated body? Anyway to become like ASHA with their certification process?
Rachel – why is the option for registration not an option at the moment? Response from EC: Thanks so much to everyone for such valuable and well thought through feedback. This has all been considered and the updated vision, values and mission for NZSTA will be circulated with the first edition of Communication Matters in 2016.
Professional development a. Spend some time discussing recent professional development events people have been to, discussing a professional development topic of interest to the group, or listening to a guest speaker. (Please only list the person’s name, topic and e-mail contact address in the minutes) Wellington Molly Kallesen – Attended and presented at The European Society of Swallowing Disorders Congress in Barcelona. There was a large NZ representation from NZ with posters and presentations Hannah Clements- Presented at the Nurses neonatal conference Otago/Southland
- Voice SIG: (Vanessa Jerome) This is going well and they now have 65 members. Thank you to everybody who contributed to the newsletter. They would like more members to feel they can contribute, no matter how small. Questions raised regarding what stops someone from contributing – members replied with they sometimes feel daunted, a time issue, feel they don’t necessarily have anything worthwhile to contribute, and want to be part of the SIG to learn/receive info rather than contribute. Overall, members feel the SIG is great however there is a lot of emails that come through.
- Cognitive Communication SIG – Bridget McArthur attended a Skype course on paediatric discourse run by Dr Catherine Mooran which was great.
- Talking Trouble Aoteroa SIG – Bridget McArthur – Skype discussions now available around behaviour, youth justice, etc.
Waikato/BoP Carla Knott: Has had a supervision training course at MoE, run by psychologist Beverley Burns. 2 day course included practice and video recordings. Found this very helpful – it will be offered again at MoE. Biddy Robb: has had similar course at Waikato DHB, found it very helpful.
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Gwen Lake: organised study day for BoP-Waikato-Lakes recently, held at Tauranga Hospital. Annabelle Blue: briefly discussed article on thickened fluids and puree and their effect on medication release. Auckland Reminded members of the dates of the 2016 NZSTA Conference
Aphasia Conference
http://www.aphasia.org.nz/uploads/aphasia%20conference%20flyer.pdf
Hannen Conference Kerri Podolsky 9-11 Dec 2015 http://www.hanen.org/Professional-
Development/It-Takes-Two-to-Talk/2015-Dec-09-Auckland-New-Zealand.aspx UK therapist Judy Cleg is coming to NZ
o children and young people with behavioral issues who live in deprived
areas
o 11th sept – Auckland uni – free
o Talking trouble webpage for more info
o Useful for SLTs working with this population
From: Janka Ritchie (WDHB) [mailto:[email protected]] - Is there a possibility of using skype or facetime to link into PD events in the
future? From: Rachael McEvoy (WDHB) [mailto:[email protected]]
Is it possible for events such as conference and other NZSTA organised PD events to be recorded and uploaded onto the NZSTA website, so that they could then be accessed on a pay per view by members not able to attend?
Central
Kathryn Palmer – LSVT Training in Melbourne – [email protected]
Hayley McKenzie and Rachel Walker – Supervision training – [email protected]
Stacie Clark – RBEI Training – [email protected]
Melody de Burgh and Emma Irvine – Sydney Paediatric Dysphagia Conference o [email protected]
Elizabeth Youard – Hanen It Take Two to Talk – [email protected]
Northland
Loraine Hamm, Paediatric dysphagia conference in Sydney, [email protected]
Kristen Shepherd and Loraine Hamm, Workshop on multidisciplinary approach to neurodevelopmental disorders, [email protected], [email protected]
b. Please also ask about Prospective PD events that members are aware of. Please then add these to calendar on the Website. Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim Coming up
PECs Level one in wellington – several members to attend
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Routine based Early intervention
Sensory Oral Sequential Training in Feb in Brisbane. Central
Rachel Walker and Stacie Clark – PECS Course
Gillian Bell – Aphasia Conference 19 & 20 November in Auckland
Paediatric Dysphagia Study Days – 26 & 27 November in Christchurch
Marja Steur - Cognitive Stimulation Workshop – 7th November in Wellington Response from EC: regarding queries about linking in via videoconference etc for professional development – this is something NZSTA is looking into but there are specific considerations depending on the presenter and the topic. It will be some time before streaming PD events could become a reality.
Open Forum This provides a time for members to share websites, articles and resources of interest or to discuss any issues facing them professionally. Note to ARs: The minutes from this section can be included in the minutes for those members in your area and may also be used to write your summary for Communication Matters. Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim Although we know that the NZSTA are aware and Anna Miles is potentially coming up with a statement, there was some discussion about The International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI). There is no real need to change any practices at this stage. But it is a great resource with a 10sec test for viscosity. Resource room discussion: Main issues raised
Emailing and being turned away or not getting any replies
Large waiting list for most popular resources There was a review into this. The intention from this was to continue running the resource room. Not looking at buying new Ax at this time. There is a need to cull and sort the resources. There is a list on the website but some items are very old and perhaps some resources are used more than others. 34 people used this resource last year. Thoughts
There is limited knowledge about it’s existence. But then when you find out about it there is at least a 6 week wait.
If you book it takes 4 days to get to you
Limited adult resources If you are not a member there is a $60 fee to use the service. Where does this money go? Could it be made 21st century with a virtual resource room tour or virtual checkout Could we look into access to journals Is a committee needed. There is passionate volunteers in wellington to be part of this. Response from EC: We need to look further into the Resource room issues and gain a better picture of exactly who the users are and whether an NZSTA run resource room is the best option.
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Otago/Southland Resources:
- Discussion re: great resources on Facebook i.e. Smart Speech Therapy LLC, Feeding Matters, AS Network, Sue Larkey, My Munch Bag.
- Hanson Website - Olivia Cowell handed over that she has been using activity cards from
slpath.com. - Invercargill MoE have ordered a new book on Cleft Palate for their office
Waikato/BoP Karen Warn: MoE has just purchased three licenses for Nuffield Apraxia of Speech computer programmes which are used to quickly individualise childhood apraxia of speech programmes and include quick colouring of resources which previously were all done by hand. Tauranga has who programmes and Whakatane has one. Hazel Gray: is creating a table of evidence for different areas of practice including summaries of articles and levels of evidence. Can this be shared across region? Can’t use DropBox or GoogleDocs – can a forum page be set up on the NZSTA website with shared access to this document for people to add to it? [email protected] Karen Warn: sharing a resource like this would back the proposed values of ‘excellence, partnership’ and the mission of ‘promoting quality EBP’. Response from EC: this will need to be investigated further and discussed with the website hosts. Will feed back further when more information available Auckland
Discussion around Social Media in small groups: (some of electronic feedback
has already been sent in the previous meeting minutes and therefore has not
been duplicated here)
o Facebook groups – professionals providing advice to parents about
specific clients, is this ethical!?
o Promoting the profession – NZTSA could put up a video of the week
like some organisations are already doing.
o Text messaging – policy around privacy of information in text
messages. Some organisations do not provide work cell phones, so
therapists have to use their own personal phones to contact families
(if they are not on email and don’t have a home phone number),
therefore families could have access to your after hours.
o FaceBook – there is concern around previous clients finding your on
FB – can we ‘friend’ them if we are not actively working with them
anymore. Guidelines around supervisors and students being friends
on FB.
o Realistically is it almost impossible to monitor all social media,
especially personal accounts, therefore each individual needs to be
responsible for themselves and needs to ‘call out’ colleagues if they
see something inappropriate on social media.
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o Benefits – it is a great way to get resources and to make connections
with people all over the world. Many clients want to be able to get
information from the comfort of their own home, so this can be
useful.
o TalkLink have a YouTube channel which they send clients to model
use of AAC. This is useful for showing isolated families how to use AAC
in real life situations.
o Hearing house have strict policies around social media and groups
o Does social media need to be reviewed as it changes so frequently?
Do parents/clients know what they are signing in terms of consent
o Story park – cloud based information sharing platform ? Seesaw?
Instagram?
o Does NZSTA need guidelines around this?
o We need a document that will protect us that we can offer to family
members if they want to video us that will require them to get written
consent from us first.
o Consent form – needs to define what the video will be used for, e.g.
home to show grandparents that to do, or will it be posted on
YouTube. How often do these need to be reviewed and consent be
re-gained as clients may change their mind over time – is this up to
the client or the organization to check.
o If therapists see something inappropriate anywhere on media they
should email [email protected],.nz and talk to
Annette about it.
o Overall if was felt that the NZTSA should develop some sort of best
practice/guideline document.
o All unis have a “professional Behaviour Contract” which all students
must sign. However many new grads and a few current students did
not feel that they had had any teaching on social media, keeping
yourself safe and what is appropriate or how to use social media to
raise awareness of our profession. Everyone I talked to felt strongly
that this was needed and that it would be useful to look at some case
studies/review real guidelines or policies from SLT
organisations/discuss what would be appropriate and what would
not. One new grad felt that the current generation of graduates are
leaving uni with a very different view of how to use social media
compared to 3-4+ years ago and therefore more time needs to be
spent ensuring that each student/new grad understands how to use
social media appropriately to protect themselves and their clients and
how to promote our profession.
o Several members offered to email links to policies, articles, best
practice guidelines, etc These have all been forwarded to the EC by
Jessamy
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o MOE and schools have clear guidelines – could the EC ask for a copy
of these?
From: Georgina Kevany (CMDHB) [mailto:[email protected]] Hi Jessamy, I wanted to add a discussion point around social media and privacy for therapists. What are the views of the NZSTA regarding the use of social media and the privacy of SLTs that are mentioned? For example, in our workplace we have been filmed during procedures, and been mentioned on patient blogs on social media sites such as Facebook. Does the NZSTA have any existing policies surrounding this? We have discussed this topic in meetings at work and from our discussion we have thought policies tend to vary from workplace to workplace. What are the policies of peoples’ workplaces? Response from EC: This was discussed at the December EC meeting and the response was published in the EC update that was sent out during the week 14-18 December.
AUCKLAND
Discussion around access to area meetings:
o Fern hopes to have video/audio conferencing set up by 2016 which
will allow members to come to 1 of 5 sites across the Auckland region.
This should also help reduce the need to find a large venue and
minimise parking difficulties. A massive thank you to Sunnydene
School for hosting this meeting.
Members encouraged to email Jessamy with any other good news stories or
area updates
Northland
Discussed difficulties with Work Place Development CPD points for SLTs in private practice. Discussed format and venue for future meetings in the north.
Communication Matters Are there articles from the Spring edition of Communication Matters members (at your meeting) would like to discuss? [Please facilitate this discussion as necessary]. What area updates do members in your area (Members Issues, challenges and things to celebrate)? Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim Wellington DHB Ruth Price has returned We would like to welcome Amy Collins to the CDS and Natasha Currum. Blenheim SLTs took advantage of SLT awareness week to get together and network across school, health and private practice.
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Hutt DHB are aiming to run parent workshops and feeding groups next year for restricted dieters. Waikato/BoP Local level agreement between MoE and BoPDHB regarding eating, drinking and swallow safety – template has been signed off for use. This guides roles and responsibilities of DHB SLTs and MoE SLTs re. dysphagia management in children under 2 and then beyond age 2. Billie Hampton-Edwards has started at Kaka St Special School Michele Cunningham is leaving her outpatient position at Waikato Hospital and taking up a role in Nelson Hazel Gray is leaving her outpatient/rehabilitation position at Tauranga Hospital and is going to London to locum. Canterbury/Westland Article: The Angelman Network: The Right to a Voice a great advocate for communication disabilities. What articles are members in your area going to submit for the Spring edition? (please include names and contact e-mail addresses) Canterbury/Westland Paed Study Days review CHCH Hospital SLTs (for Autumn addition of Communication Matters due to dates) What websites of interest or links to resources do members have to share with their colleagues? (please ask members to give a brief summary of the website or resource as well as the link/web address). Wellington/Nelson/Blenheim Question for Team: There was talk about having a section in CM with interviews with people who are SLTs but have moved to other management roles. Canterbury/Westland https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.helptalk&hl=en App for AAC devices to use in emergencies and to facilitate communication with an AAC user. Emergency contact details, calming techniques, communication strategies etc. www.iddsi.com International dysphagia diet standardisation
Other Matters for Exec
Please provide member name and contact details (if member consents) so that a member of the EC can follow-up directly and gather any further information to ensure that the member’s request, question or issue is appropriately & accurately responded to. What other issues/queries/feedback would members in your area like to raise with the Exec? Waikato/BoP Accessibility of dial-in to teleconferences. With budget on teleconferencing, people who are isolated from teleconference ‘hubs’ or who need to dial in from home are
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sometimes not meeting minimum requirements for attendance of two meetings per year. Gwen Lake: At next meeting, people can call in to someone’s iPhone which can link up to many different calls at once. Price for this is quite low and ‘minutes’ will be taken from individual’s phone plan. General consensus was that this would be a good idea. New Area Rep to trial this at Summer meeting next year. Auckland
Discussion around what our title is as Canterbury changed their degree title and students are taught to call themselves “Speech Language Pathologists”. Members felt that this could be very confusing for clients and families and that we should have national consistency around what we call ourselves. A member of the EC said that if we become a registered profession, protection
of title will be a talking point. It was suggested that the Program accreditation comity could meet and discuss the titling
do we call ourselves speech language therapists or speech language
pathologists? I’m aware Canterbury call the degree 'Bachelor of
Speech Language Pathology' and then people graduate and may call
themselves Speech Language Pathologists? But this is not consistent
across the country, as jobs advertised are for Speech Language
Therapists and we still use Speech Language Therapists term under
NZSTA - ? What is with change of title in degree? Shouldn’t everyone
be changing over title at same time, if this is the way we going?
Thanks
James Ray
Speech Language Therapist - Arohanui Special School and
Specialist Outreach Service
Response from EC: Although Univeristy of Canterbury degree is now titled
Bachelor of Speech-Language Pathology, all therapists in NZ should continue to
call themselves Speech-Language Therapists. All three programmes have
consulted and agreed that irrespective of the title of the degree – your title will
still be SLT.
Ann Smaill (TalkLink Trust) brought up the inconsistency of SLT service across
DHBs. Some DHBs allow therapists to go into rest homes and private homes
and others don’t. There is a distinct difference in quality of service, safety and
access to information between DHBs that allow therapists into these areas
and those who don’t. There was a general agreement that members would
like the NZSTA to put a motion before MOH to increase consistency of service
across the nation. Sharon Broardmore (DHB) said that she would very much
like consistency to be increased.
Early Years discussion over email: o From Tracy Kendall - I recently made a submission to PLUNKET who
were asking for submissions on how to get more foreigners-particularly Asians, on board with Plunket checks-community newspaper appeal. I have noted a decrease in referrals from Plunket
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in general. I wonder how much training is given to Plunket nurses on normal speech-language development, especially now that they are responsible for the 4 year old checks prior to school?
o PN’s learn about normal speech development and their role is to refer and facilitate connection to agencies, such as you identified below when there are delays. PN’s are ‘expert’ at well child (normal ) and have criteria for all referrals eg) development, speech, hearing, etc. they are not however ‘expert’ on abnormal as there are so many ways children may need extra support-of course they do gain a very good understanding of the more common ‘abnormalities’ Stephanie Shennan - General Manager Community Development and Volunteers
o From: [email protected] Subject: Early identification of SLT difficulties Hi Jessamy In the UK, there was lots of great information available for parents in early years centres to raise awareness of typical language development and when you might want to refer to SLT services. In the pre-school setting I worked for, health promotion was a large part of our role. We did lots of work in the local community to raise awareness of our service and help parents and staff working with young children to identify communication difficulties early on. We would put posters up (I-Can) in pre-school centres, provide leaflets and we did regular talks every few months to post-natal parent groups about typical language development, SLT services and how they can support their babies with their communication development from birth. This website is great as parents can use it themselves to check on their child’s progress from birth up to 17. http://www.talkingpoint.org.uk/ Thanks Polly Khushal
Speech and Language Therapist Northland CPD log – members are finding this really easy to use Speech, Language Hearing Journal – would it be possible to have the option of an online subscription or receive the journal electronically? Some members prefer electronic journals and wonder if it would reduce costs? Response from EC: the journal is available online, there is a link on the website once you have logged in.
