Lindsey shares her experiences of being diagnosed with ADHD in her thirties and the difficulties she faced in navigating the healthcare system and advocating for herself to get the support she needed. Lindsey also shares her story of intensive and invasive jaw surgery and orthodontic input due to the impact of thumb sucking on her adult teeth. Lindsey reflects on how having speech therapy as a child affected her communication confidence as an adult, and how she feels about her son's speech and his speech therapy input. Check in with us as we debrief after Sophie's awesome hen do, and we signpost to a 'body doubling' app to support motivation to complete mundane everyday tasks.

Follow Lindsey on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/motivadhd?igsh=MTEzeGk1N2dldTZnYw==

Dubbii the body doubling app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gravitywell.adhdlove

Help! My child is stammering! This is a common enquiry we receive here at Talking Lab, so we've made this episode to answer all your questions about stammering including:

- what is a stammer?

- do I need to seek help for my stammer or my child's stammer?

- what does speech and language therapy support for a stammer look like?

If you or someone you know is a stammerer, this episode is for you!

I Talk Like a River book I Talk Like a River https://amzn.eu/d/bJkhGHg

NHS Stammering Network https://nhsstammeringnetwork.uk/

Have you ever wondered about life on a submarine? Former Petty Officer Joe Dowds joins us at Talking Lab HQ to talk all about what it's like living and working at great depths under the ocean. Forget what you've seen on Vigil, Joe gives us the real, behind -the-scenes action on board the Vanguard class of naval submarines. We delve into the fascinating world of communication on board and find out all about news updates, family grams and football scores.

Talking Lab is loving Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, a great day out for the whole family https://historicdockyard.co.uk/discover/

Don't forget to chat to us via our website for requests, questions or if you'd like to join us as a special guest! Talking-lab.com

In this episode of Talking Lab Live I’m sharing the incredible story of Jean Domonique Bauby, a

fashion magazine editor who suffered a devastating stroke at the age of 43 in December 1995 which

resulted in locked-in syndrome, a state of total paralysis in every part of his body except his eyes.

Jean-Do as he was known to his friends had to learn a new way of communicating with the support

of his talented and dedicated speech and language therapist who introduced a letter based system

allowing Jean Do to spell out words using just his left eye. It’s an inspirational story of persevering

through the most extreme circumstances to be able to communicate and it’s a story that’s always

stayed with me through first hearing about it as a little girl.

In our communication check-in we’re reflecting on our experience at the conference in London

hosted by the Association of Speech and Language therapists in Independent Practice. Sophie

confesses to not knowing her fiance’s year of birth, and I’m reminiscing on my amazing time as a

bridesmaid this weekend.

This week at Talking Lab we are Loving Chat GPT and Sophie shares her story of how she was first

introduced to the technology and how she uses it to carry out tasks in all areas of her personal and

professional life, including writing and illustrating a story about a goat who goes to war. That’s all coming up right now on this episode of Talking Lab Live!

Link to the book: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly https://amzn.eu/d/39MnqER

Watch the film on Sky: https://www.skystore.com/product/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly/dd3876c8-548d-4cc0-8b49-c488577fcc24

Join the Chat GPT revolution: https://chat.openai.com/

Have you ever wondered what happens in a speech and language therapy assessment? We're giving you all the inside information of the process of a speech and language therapy assessment with Talking Lab - from the initial contact right through to being given strategies and a clear plan for support. Step into our clinic and join us for a journey through a speech and language therapy assessment!

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The You Choose book series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Choose-Pippa-Goodhart/dp/0552547085

In the first ever episode of Talking Lab Live we're talking about Helen Keller, a deafblind historical figure, and her tutor Anne Sullivan who taught Helen to communicate by using American Sign Language (ASL). Helen went on to learn how to read, write and even speak using the Tadoma method. More information about Helen Keller can be found in the film The Miracle Worker https://g.co/kgs/CBDXXeM

If you're interested in starting a signing journey with your under-2s, check out Little Bear Baby Signing https://www.littlebearbabysigning.com/

Our rockstar supervisor Emily Price: https://www.autisticslt.com/

And us! We are Talking Lab speech and language therapists, talk to us about any of your communication concerns: https://www.talking-lab.com/