Speech and Language therapy 2016

Has anyone heard back from Leeds Beckett or know if they said when about they would be getting back to people?

Hi anyone hear back from Newcastle yet?. Or Queen Margaret university Edinburgh? Xx

Hey, I applied to QMU, Strathclyde, Newcastle and City London. I got an offer from Strathclyde and interviews for Newcastle and City but QMU is the one I really want and I'm dying to hear back!

I got a no from Strathclyde, was late in applying for Newcastle so still waiting. I so want to go to QMU to, the admissions people said we will find out this week at some point. X

Yeah I saw they had replied to you on the QMU page, I've been checking way too often haha. Its really scary that there are only 25 places available :/ x

I know, it's so scary. I am a adult returner, I never thought waiting for them to make a decision would be so stressful. Good luck and well done for getting an offer from Glasgow. X

I'm a 'mature' student, just turned 25 and the waiting is much worse than when i was 18 haha. Good luck to you too! x

I sometimes help deliver SLT interventions in my job, if anyone wants any advice x

I work as learning support in a primary school, so I work closely with the the speech and language team, we meet regularly and I then deliver speech and language interventions within school. Sometimes these are aimed at addressing speech problems due to dyspraxia and poor muscle coordination, sometimes due to things like poor phonological awareness caused by dyslexia or hearing glue ear/ other hearing impairments.

Anyone else heard from Birmingham city?

I think they are likely to suggest you just pick one course otherwise it will be an easy rejection for them to make if you try and tailor it for both subjects.

I study at Newcastle. If you did want to do SLT then at Newcastle you get taught anatomy and physiology by medical and clinical neuroscience staff. The anatomy lecturer (McHanwell) is probably the most famous anatomist for SLTs along with his colleague at Sheffield. He literally wrote the book for SLT anatomy and has chapters in Gray's Anatomy on the pharynx and larynx. Some of this is completely overkill to be honest (e.g. a consultant cardiologist teaching us about the heart and brain circulation). But the 'medical' SLTs who specialise on things like motor speech disorders and stroke/aphasia are among the best in the UK if not the world too (e.g. Miller, Howard, Webster). This sort of course would be a good compromise as not all the SLT courses study anatomy etc. in as much depth. I guess Sheffield's would be another option (from what I have heard).

Anyone else planning to go to Sheffield?