Communicability Global

21/10/2021

Communicability Global has been reimagined as Helen Barrett Inclusion Consultancy. I'll be posting new content on my new page. Follow me here! https://www.facebook.com/helenbarrettinclusion

Consultancy services on disability and social inclusion in development and humanitarian contexts

12/10/2021

04/10/2021

Tune in on Wednesday this week to hear me present with colleagues Prof Julie Marshall and Catherine Harris, about our work with refugees who experience communication disability in Rwanda.

23/08/2021

Interesting! And certainly has implications for the way we deal with auditory processing and speech sound difficulties.

After years of research, neuroscientists have discovered a new pathway in the human brain that processes the sounds of language.

15/08/2021

Resources now available online. This one focuses on communication for children with developmental disabilities, including Cerebral Palsy.

“Communication means understanding what others say to us, and expressing our thoughts, needs and feelings to them. Communication is a basic human right.” Resources on helping parents of children with learn effective communication are in our modules: https://www.ubuntu-hub.org/resources/

23/03/2021

Less than 3 weeks until CTI's webinar: 'Cultural Incompetence - what can we learn from past mistakes?' Saturday April 10th 10-11am BST. Speakers who have worked in Uganda, Ghana, Trinidad & Tobago sharing their perspectives on working as SLTs in low/middle incomes countries. Attendance free but donations welcome to our small grant scheme. https://communicationtherapyinternational.org/study-day-2021/

20/03/2021

To all my SLT crew, the world is a better place because of you.

30/01/2021

Delighted that and research on communication rights of survivors of in cited in submission to the Lords debate on the Domestic Abuse Bill and discussed by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff: https://t.co/jbZ1YtGx16 .

To read the report used in evidence, follow this link.https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/media/mmuacuk/content/documents/hpsc/research/understanding-SGBV-in-refugees-with-a-communication-disability-literature-review.pdf

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TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.

03/11/2020

https://www.elrha.org/researchdatabase/gap-analysis-the-inclusion-of-people-with-disability-and-older-people-in-humanitarian-response-beyond-the-evidence/

Part 2 of the Gap Analysis presents the insights from individuals working in humanitarian response, disability inclusion, and older age inclusion.

20/10/2020

Communication Therapy International has developed a competency framework for SLTs working, or thinking of working, internationally. The framework is a self assessment tool that helps SLTs think about their current knowledge, understanding, and skills and plan for their continuous professional development when working cross culturally. But be aware that ticking off competencies does not lead to competence! We can never be fully competent when working in and with other cultures into which we were not born. This document serves to help focus awareness on areas of work that we may want to improve upon.

Welcome to the Competency Self Assessment Framework. The CTI committee have put together this document to help Speech and Language Therapists who are already working in and those who are thinking o…

10/09/2020

Great news to hear that SLT has been gazetted as a recognised profession in Rwanda as of this month! Well done to everyone involved!

28/08/2020

People who easily name racism and sexism do not seem to see the human rights issues that underscore ableism. So that silence is problematic, Ellen Fraser-Barbour writes.