Specific Language Impairment

This week Dorothy Bishop, a Professor in Developmental Neuropsychology, wrote for The Guardian’s Science blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/01/sli-autism-childhood-developmental-disorders Professor Bishop wrote about... Read more

Autism Research

 I.T.S. work with a range of age groups, including young children, school-aged children, teenagers, adults and older people. Many of these individuals have learning, developmental, physical, social or communicative difficulties.... Read more

Youth Offending Report

We have paid particular interest in the work ofKaren Bryan's work in Youth Offending this week which is very relevant tothe world of speech and language therapy. The project in Leeds reports back about their intensive supervision and... Read more

2011 National year – SALT

It  has been recently announced that 2011 is to be the National Year of Communication. Originally proposed in the 2008 Bercow Report, the aim is to help all children and young people fulfil their potential through better communication.... Read more

Update – IPods & IPads as AAC

Way back in May we reported on the possibility of using everyday iPods and iPads as a cost-effective, easy-to-use method of alternative augmentative communication (AAC). You can find the article here -... Read more

Locked – in – syndrome

“I couldn’t talk – but I could feel, hear and smell" This week in The Guardian, Graham Miles discussed his experience of ‘Locked-In Syndrome’, a rare neurological condition that leaves individuals ‘trapped’ in their own body... Read more

Language Disorder – Teenagers

A North Wales newspaper reported this week on a 17 year old teenager who found himself in court on firearms offences because of an undiagnosed language disorder (http://tinyurl.com/2ft333z). Gwyndaf Jones had been shooting birds with... Read more

After a Stroke

The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) reported this month on access to support services for people who have had recent strokes. There is widespread acknowledgement that acute services for stroke patients have... Read more

SEN – A Backlash

The Daily Mail recently reported on Quintin Kynaston School, a Central London based school where a third of the staff are ‘non-teaching’ teachers. By this, the article (at... Read more

Siblings of children with ASD

Language Delay - Siblings of Children with Autism As a relatively new and often misunderstood condition, autism is of great interest to researchers around the world from a variety of disciplines. New developments within the field are... Read more