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13th Mar
National Swallow Awareness Day
Today is National Swallow Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of how speech and language therapists (SLT’s) help people living with eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties. We are also using this day to raise awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of the management of dysphagia and the role that team members play. Dysphagia is the […]
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6th Apr
Aphasia
Last week it was announced by Bruce Willis’s family that he would be retiring from his Hollywood acting career following a diagnosis of aphasia, which is affecting his cognitive abilities.News item can be viewed here. Following the announcement, ‘The Bill’ star Chris Ellison’s wife also shared that he has lost the ability to speak since […]
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