The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Education Awards success
There were celebrations for NHS Lanarkshire’s Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service at the Scottish Education Awards.
Along with North Lanarkshire Council, SLT staff were winners of the prize for Raising Attainment in Literacy.
The award came for their work at Redburn School in Cumbernauld, where pupils have a range of complex learning and/or physical difficulties.
NHS Lanarkshire specialist speech and language therapist Phillippa Watters, who worked on the project, said: “Teachers at Redburn have put a huge effort into improving language and communication – believing they are the stepping stones to improving literacy among the pupils.
“The school examined the progress of children in communication and language and monitored the impact speech and language therapists had on the school.
“They decided an overhaul was necessary.
“Now speech and language therapists work alongside staff in the classroom and teach parents and siblings to help deliver communication and literacy.
“All the children have an iPad and every one of the pupils has made progress.”
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