Speech and Language Therapy Clinic

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The practitioner team

Claire Dolby

Lecturer / School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Naomi De Graff

Senior Lecturer / School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Sarah James

Head of Subject / School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr Lindsey Thiel

Senior Lecturer / School of Humanities and Social Sciences

In their own words

A selection of quotes from the clinic team, the students that support the clinic and some of the clients that they treat.

"I want to support our students and help them develop their clinical skills - to enable them to be absolutely fantastic Speech and Language Therapists to work in our NHS service. I also want to give clients a good quality care after their NHS journey has potentially ended and to support where they want to go with their goals."

Claire Dolby Lecturer
"My research is focused on how to support people with aphasia to improve their ability to communicate through writing, particularly through assistive writing technologies. The clinic has given us the opportunity to do some research exploring clients’ outcomes to writing related to their individual goals, as well as their experiences after taking part in a writing therapy group.”

Dr Lindsey Thiel Senior Lecturer
“It is wonderful to see the clinic in action, providing excellent student placements. We are working with colleagues in the NHS, independent practice and across other organisations, to support clients with their speech, language and communication needs, in the best way possible. What an incredible experience for our SLT students to have at Leeds Beckett.”

Naomi De Graff Senior Lecturer
“The clinic is a fantastic opportunity to combine high-quality learning experiences for our students with providing speech and language therapy for people with communication difficulties in our region. On top of that, research taking place at the clinic will mean that we can contribute to our understanding of what therapy works best for different clients to help them reach their communication goals.”

Dr Sarah James Head of Subject

Speech and Language Therapy student with client

Speech and Language Therapy Student with a client

Working with a Speech and Language Therapy client

A client at the Speech and Language Therapy Clinic

“It is really nice to get some hands-on experience working directly with the clients. A lot of them have had their strokes quite a while ago and they haven’t seen Speech and Language Therapy for quite a while, so they have new goals to what they had when they initially had their stroke and very functional goals of being able to write emails or get back to work and things like that.”

Katrina Lewis BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
“It’s really good. I think you can learn so much academically, but I feel like you don’t actually understand it until you’re putting it into practice and you’re working hands-on with the clients. We’re currently working with people on their writing skills, so we’ve established a writing group in the clinic so people with aphasia come in and we discuss their aims with them, set out what they want to do, and we’ve been using different technologies and software to work on these aims.”

Sophie Padfield Speech and Language Therapy student
“I was an IT consultant, and I had a stroke ten years ago. It left me with aphasia and a weak arm and leg. The clinic is new to me; it is good because it gets you to write and express yourself as you want and writing for me is hard and I want to do it better. The students are very important because without the students, there’d be no SLTs of the future and they need SLTs for umpteen things and a SLT is a very important person.”

John from Knaresborough Attends the SLT clinic following a stroke ten years ago

Speech and Language Therapy student and client working together

A Student Placement Success Story - in partnership with Aphasia Support

Aphasia Support has had the pleasure of collaborating with our trainee Speech and Language therapists.

This placement saw students harness their knowledge, skills and experience to create a bank of Aphasia-friendly resources and activities 'to promote communication, social interaction and cognitive stimulation'.

Together, they have created a wealth of resources for Aphasia Support - these will be used by our staff and volunteer team to deliver the charity's pathway of support across Yorkshire and beyond.

Speech and Language Therapy courses at Leeds Beckett University

BSc (Hons)

Speech and Language Therapy

MSc

Speech and Language Therapy (Pre-Registration)

Get in touch

We are currently working on our referral process via NHS providers and we will update with information as soon as possible. If you would like more information about the clinic please contact the clinic.

SLTClinic@leedsbeckett.ac.uk