UHMBT Children's Speech and Language Therapy

17/03/2025

📣 We are excited to announce that we currently have vacancies for 2 Band 6 Speech and Language Therapists!! If you are interested then please see the link below. 📣

17/03/2025

Please see below to find out about an exciting opportunity to join our wonderful OT team!

☎️ Calling Occupational Therapists! An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our wonderful Children’s Occupational Therapy team at UHMB 🎈🌈🧒

Band 6 Occupational Therapist applications close 27th March 2025!

https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9331-25-0216?searchFormType=main&keyword=children%27s&location=Lancashire&language=en

26/02/2025

‼ Our advice line number has recently changed.
📱 You can contact us every Tuesday 09:00 - 11:00 on 07843 315233.
🖱 Our email remains the same: sltadvice@mbht.nhs.uk

Our advice line is open for parents, carers and other health and education professionals.

📋 If you feel your child requires a full referral, we can not accept these through our advice line. A health or education professional must complete our referral form which can be found here: https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/download_file/view/4408/831

💻 You can find out more information about our team by visiting our website: https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/our-services/services/paediatric-hospital-and-community-services/integrated-childrens-nursing-and-therapy-team/childrens-speech-and-language-therapy

12/02/2025

IMPORTANT NOTICE 🚨
We have a new number for our Advice Line. Please see the below for the details.

28/12/2024

We wanted to share a really inspiring story that was recently featured on ITV news.
Stambassador, Sam Bagshaw () shared his story with the message that “stammering doesn’t need to define you” and “your voice should be heard”.
You can watch it here: https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2024-12-28/stambassador-shares-daily-life-with-stammer?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2dxmZ7Yt7om7Hx3Q9CdRB3W70KlwuOqa-aZpYg8qh6jv3v74E3noOB2PI_aem_smpoS-u9tAXFgJXePmt3Bg

Breaking news and analysis from across the UK and around the world. ITV provides video, audio, podcasts and headlines you can trust.

24/12/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Team! 🎉

As the festive season fills our homes with joy, it also offers wonderful opportunities to support your child’s speech and language development through fun, everyday moments. Here are a few festive tips to help:

🎅 Christmas Vocabulary: Use Christmas items like ornaments, gifts, or decorations to teach new words (e.g., “star,” “bauble,” “reindeer”). Talk about colours, shapes, and textures to expand their descriptive language (“brown reindeer”, “shiny bauble” etc).

📖 Festive Stories: Read Christmas-themed books together. Pause to ask questions about the story or pictures, such as “What do you think will happen next?” or “Can you find the snowman?”

🎶 Sing Carols & Songs: Songs like “Jingle Bells” or “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” are great for building vocabulary, rhythm, and memory skills. Encourage your child to join in, even if it’s just with gestures or single words. You can pause in the middle of a song to see if your child will either signal for you to start again, or for older children, continue singing the song themselves.

🎁 Playtime Conversations: While unwrapping presents or playing with new toys, talk about what you see, hear, or feel. Try phrases like “Wow, this is a big truck!” or for older children, ask open-ended questions: “What will we build with this?”

🎄 Imaginative Play: Set up a pretend Santa’s workshop or play with a toy nativity set to encourage storytelling, role-play, and sequencing skills.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas 🎄

The Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Team

23/12/2024

📱We are currently having technical difficulties with our advice line phone, however our email is still working.
📧 If you want advice from the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy team, please email us (sltadvice@mbht.nhs.uk) and one of the team will respond once our advice line opens again in the New Year.

15/11/2024

Do you want to know more about what Lancaster and Morecambe Family Hub offers? Why not pop to Carnforth Family Hub (dates on the poster below). Carnforth Integrated Care Community will also be in attendance to offer support, advice and signposting.

Starting next week. Carnforth ICC will be supporting. We hope to see you there ☺️

05/11/2024

🎆 Happy Bonfire Night! 🔥 For some children, young people, and adults, fireworks can bring more worry than joy. Here are some links to helpful tips to make the night enjoyable for everyone, whether that’s staying cozy at home or adjusting how you experience the fireworks. 🌠

🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/articles/z7pyydm
🔗https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/leisure/bonfire-night/all-audiences
🔗https://www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/blog/top-tips-autism-friendly-bonfire-night

Safety tips can also be found here:
⚠️ https://www.lancsfirerescue.org.uk/safety/celebrations/bonfire-night-safety-tips
⚠️ https://bonfire-night-safety.co.uk/

Stay safe this bonfire night with our free guide and downloadable PDF resource.

04/11/2024

Tomorrow is bonfire night 🔥🎆 and we've created some activities that you can do with your children using the theme of bonfire night. Some children don't like being out when there are loud fireworks or lots of people in a crowd, so you can adapt these activities to do at home too.

01/11/2024

It’s and today we want to share a really useful resource: BBC Tiny Happy People who have advice and ideas on how you can support your child at home with their speech, language and/or communication targets, sections include:
• Early interaction and pre-verbal skills
• Symbolic play
• Listening and attention skills
• Understanding
• Expressive language
• Speech
• General advice & tips

https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/articles/zk2p3qt?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3yDpHUY5PSyC0cDDxHOJG4WrXJvvwze0sYgRqJFV07B7J3OIZHFLHqoIc_aem_fW1DpgneY0MvcekMKmalzg

Tiny Happy People is a resource from the BBC full of content that can help if you're waiting for an SLT referral or have been set speech and language targets by an SLT.