Ms. Lucy Strawford

Speech & Language Therapist (Adults)

"Awareness is the greatness agent for change" - Eckhart Tolle

I am a UK qualified Speech & Language Therapist, graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University.

I am an adult specialist Speech & Language Therapist with 11 years of experience working in the UK and the UAE. I have worked in a variety of settings including:

Acute and Community hospitals
Specialist Inpatient Stroke Unit
Post-acute Rehabilitation Inpatient hospital
Outpatient Clinics
Client home services

I have specialist experience and skills in:

Stroke Intensive Rehabilitation I have experience working in a specialist stroke multidisciplinary team offering intensive speech and language goal centred therapy.
Stammering (Adolescents and adults) I managed the local service for this population in the UK and was featured in ‘The National’ newspaper in the UAE for ‘International Stammering Awareness Day’. I have participated in the UK ‘Giving Voice’ campaign to educate and raise awareness about stammering and continue to attend specialist courses led by City Lit (UK) and Barry Guitar.
Voice I am dedicated in helping people to restore and preserve their voice from conditions such as Vocal Cord Nodules, Vocal Cord Polyps, Vocal Cord cysts, Vocal cord Palsy/Paralysis.

I have completed introductory courses in Art Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Solution Focussed Brief Therapy to integrate a range of therapy principles in my intervention and treatment.

Adults

I work with Adults who have any Speech, Language, Voice, and Swallowing difficulties in:

Stroke; including intensive Aphasia, Dysarthria & Dyspraxia rehabilitation
Head Injury
Parkinson’s Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Motor Neuron Disease
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Dementia
Stammer (adolescents and adults)
Vocal cord lesions (vocal cord nodules, vocal cord polyps, vocal cord palsy)

Dubai Health Authority (DHA); Dubai
The Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC); UK

BSc (Hons) Clinical Language sciences, Speech & Language Therapy; Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT); UK

Professional Development

Dysphagia for Speech & Language Therapists (Maggie-Lee Huckabee)
Resilience & wellbeing for Speech & Language Therapists (City Lit)
Advancing your practice - Stammering Therapy for Adults (City Lit)
Reading Adult Videofluoroscopies (UCL Hospitals Trust)
Laryngeal imaging in managing dysphonia & dysphagia (Aaron Ziegler, The Wellness Group)
5th Neuro Disorders Forum Conference
4th Annual Maudsley Health Conference
Foundation in Art Therapy (ATIC, Dubai) BAAT
Stuttering Clinical Education – An integrated approach to its assessment & treatment (Barry Guitar & G. Leal)
2018 Maudsley Health Conference
Voice Registration explained (Professor Ingo R Tize- Canto Song & Voice)
Surgery of the Voice (Prof Robert Sataloff - Canto Song & Voice)
Dementia Therapy: A SLTs Guide to Successful Interventions & Documentation
Interpretation of Videofluroscopic Swallow Studies of ADULTS (Jeri Logemann)
LSVT LOUD™ Professional Training & Certification
LSVT eLOUD™ Professional Training & Certification
Practical Voice Therapy techniques (London Voice CEN)
Advanced Medical Imaging (University of Salford); Masters level – Theory
Mental Capacity Act and the Speech & Language Therapist role (Adult Neuro SIG)
Stroke Joining Forces conference 'Responding to new challenges'
The Tobii Technology EyeGaze Learning Curve (Tobii)
CBT; An Introduction (Amanda Cole)
Art Therapy & Mindfulness (Barrie Damarell)
Introduction to Solution Focused Therapy (Nigel Smith)
Step-by-Step’ Therapy Software (Jane Mortley)
Clinical Educators Training (St Mark & St John’s University, Plymouth)
Management of motor speech disorders (SW Motor Speech SIG)
Aphasia (SW Aphasia SIG)
Apraxia of speech -SWORD (SW Motor Speech SIG)
Working with adults who stammer (City Lit)
Making communication access a reality (Connect, U.K)
Counselling Skills (Pauline Newson)
Dysfluency paediatric & adult study day (Fluency SIG)
Introduction to Advanced Clinical Reasoning & Decision-Making (Kate Malcomess)
‘Complex ethical decisions & caregiver burden’ (Dr Paula Leslie)