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Let's Talk about 'Doing what it takes, a selective mutism casebook'

Dawn interviews Libby about her new book 'Doing what it takes' which is about Libby's work with children and young people with selective mutism. Available from Amazon ...

Episode 13 Let's Talk AAC, well-being and Gestalt Language Processing

Libby interviews the wonderful Ali Battye, Speech and Language Therapist on Ali's three passions. She has written books about all of them. We love all her books but he...

Let's Talk about autism and parental blame

Libby, Donna and Bernadette were on the advisory panel for the NHS England commissioned Autism and parental blame study. In this episode they they discuss their reason...

Episode 11: Let's Talk about burn-out with Jodie Clarke

Libby interviews Jodie about autistic burn-out. This is a topic everyone needs to know about as it is certainly on the increase and is very damaging to the child or yo...

Let's Talk about neuro-affirming ways of working

Dawn interviews Rachel Winder about what it really means to be neurodivergent-affirming. Rachel was diagnosed as autistic with dyslexia and ADHD in her forties, has be...

Let's Talk Developmental Language Disorder

DLD is the biggest learning difficulty you've never heard of. 2 out of every class have it. At Small Talk most of the SLTs have extra training in order to be confident...

My child is struggling at school but.......'What if it's not dyslexia?'

Libby discusses the new book that she has been working on with Georgina Smith and Laura Graham. Georgina Smith, a specialist  dyslexia  tutor, and Laura Graham, indepe...

Let's Talk PDA with special guest Danielle Jata-Hall

Libby interviews the lovely Danielle about her experience of PDA and also her new book Black Rainbow about a family's PDA journey through https://amzn.eu/d/9pr6aGQ

Episode 6: Libby interviews Cathy Shilling about gestalt language processing and the upcoming conference

Cathy organised 2 very successful conferences last year. This year she is going bigger and better! She has all the experts on NLA in one place including Marg Blanc and...

Let's Talk Small Talk with special guest Laura Kerbey

Small Talk Speech and Language Therapist Dawn Tomalin interviews the brilliant Laura Kerbey, Autism & Education Consultant and Author. They discuss PDA and Laura's rec...

interview with Helen Daniel

Dawn talks to Helen Daniel about her work and her recent book. Helen is an autism and neurodiversity support practitioner who helps neurodivergent families  find their...

Let's Talk Selective Mutism

To celebrate the end of SMIRA's selective mutism awareness month, Libby and Dawn discuss all things selective mutism. Small Talk have several speech and language thera...

Let's Talk Small Talk Eposide 2

Libby and Paula discuss Paula's new book with her approach to family life when you have SEN in the mix, autism, parental blame and much more. 

interview with Steph Curtis about her book on PDA in the family

Listen to Libby interview Steph Curtis parent, blogger and author

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