by Diana McQueen | Feb 20, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
It’s been a year since the start of the war in Ukraine. Since then the UK has fallen into a crisis of its own – everything is more expensive – some of it frighteningly, mind-blowingly more. Most people are struggling on one level or another. But everything is...
by Jo Williams | Nov 23, 2022 | News, Resources
‘Did you know we have eight primary in-built emotions? Joy (happiness) Sadness Anger Fear (scared) Suprise Disgust Interest Shame Our secondary emotions are linked to these and reflect an emotional reaction to specific feelings, they are learned from...
by Diana McQueen | Oct 24, 2022 | News, Twin blog
You may remember that we concluded part I as the twins were approaching their 1st birthday. Here they are recovering from their big birthday bash! At the time of writing they are 16 months old and are growing into two distinct individuals. Like with any siblings...
by Diana McQueen | Oct 17, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
Currently there are regulations in this country which stipulate how many children of a particular age can be cared for by 1 adult. For 0-2s it’s 1 adult to 3 children, for 2 year-olds it’s 1:4 and for 3+ 1:8 (or 1:13 for a qualified teacher). Why are there ratios? ...
by Diana McQueen | Aug 22, 2022 | News
In 2011/12 Diana and Jo (Directors) were managing speech and language therapy services in neighbouring Trusts in the West Midlands… and then, after one restructure too far, they weren’t ….. It was a time of considerable upheaval: ‘re-configuration’ of services was...
by Diana McQueen | Aug 16, 2022 | News
The ASLTIP national conference took place remotely on May 20th. The theme of the event was ‘Adapt for Success’. Introduced by Kamini Gadhok (CEO of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists – RCSLT) Jo and Diana were invited to talk about heir journey...
