Succession planning
Author: Avril Nicoll
Magazine issue: Autumn 06
Page numbers: 14-16
Date: 28 August 2006
URL: http://www.speechmag.com/content/files/successionplanning.pdf
Editor Avril Nicoll asks what we can do to ensure the next generation of speech and language therapists are the right people to take the profession forward. Suggestions include offering hands-on time / work experience placements, videos, open days and careers talks, paying undergraduate students for visiting schools to talk about their chosen profession and raising awareness through talking about what we do. The background to the book ‘A Career in Speech and Language Therapy’ is explored and prospective students are encouraged to gain as much experience and information as possible through voluntary / paid work, reading and personal contact with therapists. Interviewees are Jane Rawlings, Clare Grennan, Samera Mian, Myra Kersner, Andrew Lawtie, Catherine Mackenzie and Lindsey Kent.
