SLTea Time

How can SLTs make the most of supervision? And how do we develop our professional identity?

In this chat, we are joined by Debs Harding, who offers insight into the supervision process as we discuss ways to develop professional identity in the face of challenges, particularly those for SLTs from ethnic minority backgrounds.

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We're back in full force with our new episode on the topic of Trauma. We share reflections from the recent Intergenerational Trauma Conference and are joined by wonderful guests Melanie Cross and Warda Farah.

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Join the whole SLTea Time team as we round off 2020 in true SLT spirit - lots of reflection and planning for the future!

Thank you for everything over the last few months and we will see you in the new year!

Happy holidays, from SLTea Time!

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We are joined by Dr Reem Khamis-Dakwar and discuss various topics including how our bias and experiences impact our work with families. The importance of working towards decolonising the profession and how best to support the families we work with. We also discuss Dr Reem Khamis-Dakwar’s research within this field and the LENA start programme. 

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Join us as we explore the meaning of microaggressions, how to identify them and how we can effectively respond to them in the workplace or university. 

We are joined by guest speakers Lorraine Omeku and Alysa Jeraj - speech and language therapists, as well as Ammeline Wang, who is researching the hate crime and microaggressions experienced by international students in the UK. 

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This Black History Month we are celebrating the achievements of Black Speech and Language Therapists along all stages of the profession. Join us for our short interview series across the month of October.

Today Aurora shares her experiences as a Speech and Language Therapist including her student experience from studying linguistics to a MSc in Speech and Language therapy.

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What is the SLT role within the youth justice system? And how should we be using our skills to break the school-to-prison pipeline?

Today we are joined by Jill, Christian and Warda, who offer valuable insight into the cause and prevalence of SLCN in young people within the youth offending system, particularly those from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds.

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This Black History Month we are celebrating the achievements of Black Speech and Language Therapists along all stages of the profession. Join us for our short interview series across the month of October.  Today Awurabena shares her experiences as a Speech and Language Therapist including starting her masters through NIHR and being part of the #listenin podcast.

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This Black History Month we are celebrating the achievements of Black Speech and Language Therapists along all stages of the profession. Join us for our short interview series across the month of October.  Today Dimitri tells us about her time in Barbados and shares her experiences of studying and working in the UK.

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This Black History Month we are celebrating the achievements of Black Speech and Language Therapists along all stages of the profession. Join us for our short interview series across the month of October.  Today Ikraan shares her experiences as a speech and language therapy student.

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"Language is the transmission of culture"

Today we discuss the impact of our communication culture and contexts on interaction styles. Why is this important to explore as a Speech and Language Therapist?

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Welcome back to Season 2 of SLTea Time!

We have had a phenomenal amount of support and engagement so far and we hope to continue having the uncomfortable conversations and driving the push for change.

In our Season 2 opener we discuss racial and unconscious bias and how it impacts us as SLT's from diverse backgrounds.

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We continue the discussion on cultural competency - how can we implement this into the workplace? We are joined by adult acute SLT Sarah Allen.  

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This time we are joined by amazing SLT's Dr Sharon, Mariam and Mehreen to discuss the education around the trending buzzphrase 'cultural competency'. 

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We are joined by the inspirational Nazia Rizwan to discuss working life, progressing and microaggressions as a SLT from an ethnic minority background. 

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Guest speakers Esosa, Karina and Maryam join us as we discuss interviews, student life and university experiences as ethnic minority speech and language therapists. 

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Today we explore the historical issue of lack of diversity within the SLT profession, how this impacts the inequitable representation in our workforce and our personal experiences on entering healthcare.

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Join us as we reveal personal experiences as ethnic minority SLTs and dissect the recently published statement by the RCSLT on the Black Lives Matter movement.

We are joined today by guest speakers Angela and Heeral - creators of the SLT's Of Colour platform (@OfSlts)

Find out who we are and why we're motivated to create this platform.

Listen to some of our personal stories, why we chose Speech and Language Therapy as a career and how we envision this space/platform supporting others. 

Hear from some of our team members about what this podcast will entail... Stay tuned for our upcoming episodes including guest speakers from the SLT profession and in healthcare.