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  • April is National Autism Awareness Month – see what The Speech Centre has to say

    Focus on what’s strong, not on what’s wrong Therapists from The Speech Centre attended the Konfident Kidz Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) workshop, where Ciaran* spoke about his own journey through diagnosis, school & independent living, Stella* shared her experience as an adult diagnosed with ASD and focused on the female presentation of ASD, while Hannah* […]

  • Invitation to present at the ESSD conference

    We are so proud of our Speech and Language Therapist, Elaine Higgins, who has been invited to present her research at the European Society for Swallowing Disorders Congress (ESSD) in Barcelona in September. Elaine’s research, entitled “Exploring the effects  of carbonation on swallow safety and efficiency in adults with neurogenic dysphagia:A FEES study”, will be […]

  • The Speech Centre’s Hannah Pfaff to present at National Conference

    Hannah Pfaff, who has recently joined The Speech Centre team in our Mallow and Mitchelstown clinics, will present her research on the validity of a new assessment tool, Captain Grey and the Greedy Aliens, at the Irish Association Speech and Language Therapy (IASLT) biennial conference at the end of May. This new assessment tool is […]

  • Teachers need to mind their voices as they return to school

    Raise your hand, not your voice! Returning to school after the holidays can be a shock to the system in more ways than we think. Teachers’ voices come under a lot of strain in the first weeks after the holidays, as children are excited and full of energy, while teachers may need more time to […]

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