Hi everyone. Hope you don't mind me posting this here.
My best friend is a (very good) SALT in central Scotland who would apprecitate as much support as possible. I've copied and pasted her email. If you agree with her petition then please support her and her colleagues by signing it. If not, then thanks for reading it anyway.
Dear All,
sorry to bother you all again, but our petition to the Scottish Parliament is closing next week, and I would be very grateful if you could read the following and visit the petition site if you agree with us.
Cheers
The ability to communicate is central to all that we do - to who we are, how we learn and how we relate to each other at home, at school and at work. Thousands of people fail to access education, social, economic and career opportunities due to communication difficulties. In the UK, approximately 2.5 million people have a communication disorder of some kind. Of those, 800,000 have a difficulty so severe that it is hard for anyone outside their immediate family to understand them.
People with communication difficulties include;
o Children ? at least 2 in every classroom
o Older people
o Young offenders
People with
o Aphasia, for example following a Stroke
o Progressive neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson?s.
o Head Injury
o Autistic Spectrum Disorder
o Dementia and Alzheimer?s
o Mental Illness
o Learning Disability
o Cerebral Palsy
o Dysfluency, e.g. a Stammer
o Dyslexia
o Cancers ? oral and laryngeal cancers, brain tumours
o Specific Language Impairment
o Voice Disorders
If you have ever experienced one of these problems or knbow someone who has, then you may appreciate what SLTs do. Government proposals changing the way we work will affect uus, BUT THEY WILL ALSO AFFECT YOU - OUR PATIENTS!!
If you share our concerns, please visit:
SALT petition
and click on 'agenda for change & speech & language therapy'
Thanks.