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Welcome to the longest running UK website for Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs).

On this site you will find links, resources and audio and video files related to speech and language therapy.

Please explore using the Menu (top right).

This is a web site run by Dr Sean Pert, Consultant Speech and Language Therapist and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy. The site has been a hobby for many decades.



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History of the web site

I have maintained a website on speech and language therapy matters since the beginnings of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s. In 1994-1995 just prior to qualifying, the first iterations of this site appeared on U-NET. The domain name www.speechtherapy.co.uk was registered on the 12th February 1998. At that time, the web was in its infancy and websites were just beginning to appear. Web pages had to be written in HTML and so were a labour of love. Mike Ryan, Andrew Russell, Gerrard Woods and Sean Maloney all helped with the early hosting and technical support.

This site appeared prior to official sites such as the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).

My undergraduate dissertation was one of the first to include a web reference! At graduation I was awarded a book on web authoring (Heslop & Budnick, 1995) as part of the Speech Therapy Prize for being one of the best students. This book helped me to craft an early site, collecting together the links then available.

I also published the now hilariously titled 'The haves and the have-nets: A Review of the Internet' for the RCSLT Bulletin magazine in December 1995. Little did I know, that some 27 years later I would become Chair of the RCSLT during our online Annual General Meeting. How far the web has come during the course of my career.

Years Elapsed

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Why not check out our site over the years?

Click the original website logo to see past iterations of this site:
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A very special career pathway



Dr Carol Stow and I worked together clinically and supported each other during our PhD studies, which led to collaborations on the clinical specialist areas of Speech and Language Disorders in a Bilingual Context, Speech Sound Disorder (SSD), and Developmental Language Disorder. We both have a strong commitment to diversity and this is reflected in our clinical specialist interests and research publications.

We have been fortunate enough to work with many talented and insightful colleagues, including Professor Barbara Dodd, Professor Cristina McKean, Professor Pamela Enderby and Sandra J. Robertson, Past Chair of RCSLT.


Dr Sean Pert


I am a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, Senior Clinical Lecturer and CPD Trainer working in the UK.

I have a special interest in:
Speech and Language Disorders in a Bilingual Context,
Voice & Communication therapy (VCT) for trans and non-binary people, and
Speech Sound Disorder (SSD).



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Gallery


Some memories of the wonderful people I have met and worked with.

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Dr Sean Pert, (IALP Rep. Large Affiliated Societies) Kamini Gadhok MBE, IALP Vice President for Membership, with Cristina Politi, and Mami Kaneko (IALP Reps. for Small and Medium Affiliated Societies) . IALP Vienna. 29th June 2024.
Derek Munn, Jois Stansfield, Emeritus Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dr Sean Pert, Professor Pam Enderby OBE, Steve Jamieson at the IALP Centennial, outside the Sucession Building, Vienna. 1st July 2024
Dr Sean Pert with the Royal College of Speech and Language therapists (RCSLT) Chain of Office. Read more about the chain here. 9th October 2024.
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Voon Pang and Dr Sean Pert at IALP 2023, Auckland, New Zealand. 21st August 2023.
Dr Sean Pert and Dr David Azul at the 32nd World Congress of the IALP, Auckland, New Zealand. 23rd August 2023
Dr Sean Pert, Chair of RCSLT and Irma Donaldson, Deputy Chair at the Palace of Westminster 19th October 2023.
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Dr Sean Pert, Mayor's Consort and Dr Carol Stow, Mayor of Hebden Bridge at Happy Valley Pride, 26th July 2019.
Dr Sean Pert, Deputy Chair of RCSLT with Mary Heritage, Chair of RCSLT, East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London. 1st September 2022.
Dr Carol Stow, FRCSLT, Kamini Gadhok, MRCSLT, MBE and Dr Sean Pert at Kamini's retirement party 22nd March 2023.
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Peter Tatchell and Dr Sean Pert at Happy Valley Pride, The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge. 13th August 2016.
Louie Stafford and Dr Sean Pert receiving the Making A Difference Award for Social Responsibility (Winner) from Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL, Chancellor. Whitworth Hall, The University of Manchester, 11th May 2017.
Christine Burns, MBE and Dr Sean Pert. Christine is a trans activist and author, and former alumni of The University of Manchester. The University of Manchester AllOut talk on 20th February 2019.
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Dr Carol Stow, Professor Barbara Dodd and Dr Sean Pert. 6th-9th August 2007, 27th IALP World Congress, Copenhagen.



Dr Carol Stow

The Bilingual Service and a Home Language Approach



Past iterations of the website included information about Dr Carol Stow FRCSLT, retired Consultant Speech and Language Therapist in Bilingualism. Carol was a pioneer in developing a ground breaking Speech and Language Therapy team ('The Bilingual Service') in Rochdale, North West Manchester, UK dedicated to working with children whose families spoke languages other than English (LOTE). This team consisted of specialist speech and language therapists, bilingual assistants and professional interpreters. The service worked with refugees and asylum seekers as well as members of more established local minority ethnic communities and delivered assessment and intervention in mother tongue: delivering services in at least twelve different languages at any given time. Children whose therapy was to be delivered in English were transferred to ‘The Monolingual Service’. Children and young people with a wide range of speech and language disorders benefitted from this approach, which ensured that children did not lose their home language skills through language attrition.


Publications


Many of our publications discuss the development of the service, assessments and how home language enabled families to retain their home language and cultural identity. You may explore this body of work, and how it influenced clinical guidelines in the UK in the list of publications, below.
Note that many are collaborations and may be duplicated across these pages!



Recent publications by Dr Sean Pert




Referrals and Clinical Enquiries



Any information about Speech and Language Therapy itself, including referral, assessment, and intervention/treatment should be directed to the relevant officer at the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT), or you should make contact with your local Speech and Language Therapy Department.


Referrals to Private or Independent Speech and Language Therapy



Please visit The Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (ASLTIP) website.


References



Heslop, B. And Budnick, L. (1995). HTML Publishing on the Internet for Windows: Create Great-Looking Documents Online: Home Pages, Newsletter, Catalogs, Ads & Forums, First Edition. Chapel Hill, NC: Ventana Press, Inc.

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