RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Podcast
1) RCSLT news Dec 2025: review of the year; lots in Scotland; head and neck cancer; House of Lords committee on Autism Act and more
Send us a text In our update this month Derek Munn, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the RCSLT covers: Big news from 2025, including RCSLT successes such as the Invest in SLT debate, Voicebox ...Show More
2) IJLCD - Six questions, eight years later: identifying early predictors of language development
Send us a text In this podcast we chat with Loretta Gasparini about the research she led on finding a robust predictor tool for persistent language disorders. The aim of this research is to identify ...Show More
3) RCSLT News November 2025: NHS news, oracy, waiting times, Scottish Advanced Practice guidance for AHPs, assistive dying and more
In our update this month Derek Munn, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the RCSLT covers: Update on the NHS in England.Curriculum review - our definition of oracy adopted and evidence based appr...Show More
4) Awake craniotomy: speech and language therapists at the cutting edge
Join us as we uncover the fascinating role of speech and language therapists working in awake craniotomy. We go to Birmingham to meet SLT Georgie Harrington and Mr Ismail Ughratdar, Consultant neurosu...Show More
5) Findings of a systematic review of interventions based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition
In this episode we chat with Professor Bronwyn Hemsley and Dr Lucy Bryant, both of the University of Technology Sydney, about their recent systematic review of interventions based on Gestalt Language ...Show More
6) RCSLT News October 2025: update from CEO and key policy news
In our update this month: Special guest Steve Jamieson CEO talks about: RCSLT’s 80th anniversary year https://www.rcslt.org/about-us/rcslt-at-80/ Annual conference coming up https://www.rcslt.org/eve...Show More
7) IJLCD: 'It depends who I'm with' - How young people with developmental language disorder describe their experiences of language and communication in school
In this podcast we speak with Anna Ekström and Olof Sandgren about their study of experiences of young people with DLD, which focused on language and communication in a school context. The study is gu...Show More
8) RCSLT news Sept 2025: Special educational needs update for England and N. Ireland; partnership report on children's services in Scotland; CAUK; RCSLT conference
In our update this month: Update on special educational needs in England and Northern Ireland.Partnership report on children's services in Scotland.CAUK training for parliamentarians as part of Nation...Show More
9) RCSLT August News: spotlight on Wales inc 2026 elections, Welsh version of CAUK and more; plus quick round up from rest of the UK
In our update this month: For Wales: Preparing for the Senedd elections in 2026: https://www.rcslt.org/wales/#section-2 Work has begun on a Welsh language version of CAUK training, funded by the Nat...Show More
10) RCSLT July News: response to 10 year health plan for England; exploring workforce impacts of waiting lists; focus on SEND and more
In our update this month: Exploring the workforce implications of waiting lists in children and young people’s speech and language therapy services.Response to the 10-year health plan for England.Cont...Show More