Speech and Language Therapy entry 2012

Sorry - just thought of a few more questions, I hope you don't mind. Do you feel as if the UEA course gets straight into the SLT subjects from year one? It's just on other courses (Reading etc) you spend 1 or 2 years studying typical language development without much consideration of communication difficulties etc until later on.

Also, from 1 - 10 how would you rate the lecturers? :P engaging? enthusiastic? approachable?

Can someone give me a better idea about DMUL? Today I got a letter from them inviting me to an Open Day (not mentioning either interview, or place) Is it still worth going to their Open Day next Saturday...Personally, I just one a place I don't care about their Open Day. Did someone else get something similar? Shall I assume it is going to be an interview on the day? Is this letter an offer from DMUL? Is it going to be of any help? I forgot to say I am a mature student.
I will appreciate any answers, especially from students who experienced the same this year or in the past. Good luck to you all!!!

No of course i dont mind. First subject block up until christmas is called foundations. so you study structure of language, you learn to transcirbe in phonetics, you learn about development in general, not just language so things like memory, you also learn about the clinical role of slt so who you would be working with, how referrals are made, assessments used etc. there is also some psychology and biology bits thrown in. This subject block sort of brings everyone up to speed.
Then after christmas you learn about disorders of fluency, this is what i enjoyed doing most. As for the lecturers for this block, Mary Kingston comes to lecture and she works on the Lidcombe program for stuttering so its good quality stuff. After stuttering and cluttering you do developmental speech and language difficulties - bit of a mouthful. So this is things like specific language impairment etc, and that takes you up until 4 weeks of placement in the summer!
Sorry for the ramble on, just to clarify you learn about a disorder of impairment in 1 big go. Most of the lecturers are great, a lot of them have been therapists so really like to draw on their own experiences. But then again, you just get those lectures that nobody in the world can make exciting! I would give the lecturing at UEA 9 out of 10 and the course scores well on student satisfaction surveys. They are definitely all approachable, always welcome to take questions and provide extra information if you want it. Cant think what else to say really!!

Just got my first rejection email from Newcastle for their masters in Language Pathology

I sent my application in on thurs night and got the rejection today, so they had it for one whole day before they said no, so probably didn't even look at it

I wasn't particularly set on going there or anything but after all the work I put into the PS etc, its crap to get a rejection so soon

That's Naff, with a capital nuh Sorry mate - hope you receive some good news soon!

Thanks, it's the first application I've sent off so hopefully the other ones will be more successful. It just seems ludicrous to only take one day to consider an application, it couldn't have been that bad

Holding out for my undergrad choices to be honest!

How slow are they this year? Time just seems to be dragging on as slowly as possible -.-

It does seem to be dragging doesn't it?! Saying that I don't think it's any slower than previous years so we'll just need to learn to be patient until after Christmas! =( (I say this but I check my emails like a million times a day and everytime I do I'm like thistimethistimethistime..no..aww! lol)

I checked a couple of the older threads, last year had already recieved Reading questionnaires by this point and the year before it was loads faster.
I try to limit myself to checking once a day because I know there won't be anything yet, but i'm still so impatient, I know exactly how you feel!

Aw you're the exact same as me, I trawled through pages and pages of last years thread to see when people started hearing from my choices! Strathclyde were already giving out offers this time last year so I know how frustrated you're feeling about Reading! So much waiting! Even after we find out we'll have like 9 months until we actually get started! =P

I know, we're so sad Readings not my first choice but it's frustrating all the same. I won't start worrying until someone else has an offer from one of my choices though. I think Newcastle started giving out offers around New Year last year, so we have that to look forward to (or dread) and then we'll all swap from "I want an offer!" to "I want to start now!"

Yeah that'll be when it gets really awful - you KNOW they're giving out offers but you've heard nothing! Where is your first choice? x

Just got my first rejection email from Newcastle for their masters in Language Pathology

I sent my application in on thurs night and got the rejection today, so they had it for one whole day before they said no, so probably didn't even look at it

I wasn't particularly set on going there or anything but after all the work I put into the PS etc, its crap to get a rejection so soon

Any of my other choices really - Reading was like a "ooh, I should probably use all five choices" option. I wouldn't mind going there though. I loved Newcastle and Sheffield though You?

It's between Newcastle and Strathclyde for me really! I'm from Glasgow, and I've done another degree away from home so it's tempting to come back to Glasgow and sort of settle there if you know what I mean?! But I've heard amazing things about SLT at Newcastle, and I really like the look of the uni/city so it's a tough one! Did you go to the Newcastle open day? I was on hol and missed it =( Do they do an applicants day type thing at Newc? x

I did go - it's amazing! I love Newcastle city anyway but I couldnt fault it, other than the accom was a bit meh and they were rebuilding the student union so we couldn't see that. I also went to Sheff though, which had amazing accom and an amazing union, but it's a bit close and I spend a lot of time in Sheffield anyway,I feel like I need to branch out rather than settle down.
I haven't been able to see my other choices properly though so it's hard to pick. I think they will do an applicant day, it would be a bit odd if you couldn't see it to make a proper decision. I suppose it's different when you've already been away for a degree, i'd probably want to settle closer if i'd been away for three years

Down to my final choices now and I've one more spot to fill!

Its a toss up between Demontfort, Manchester uni and Birmingham. Does anyone have any info, pros or cons?
I've never been to any of these areas as I'm not from the UK, so anything about the locations that could be a decider?

I don't have any strong feelings towards any of them, although I'm not sure how I like the social approach taken in Birmingham.

Anyways any info welcome


Also another quick question, how did you all get your line count down for PS? I'm well below the character limit at 3,438 but I have 57 lines ! So no idea how I'm gonna get around this one :?