Had fascinating, moving couple of afternoon/evenings introducing #LisnTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling face to face to #SpecialEducation Teachers & Movement/ #ArtTherapists frm India, Malaysia,Taiwan & Sri Lanka 🇮🇳🇲🇾🇹🇼🇱🇰Sharing tales, acknowledging different cultures, faiths, customs. #EurythmyIndia

At #FridaKahlo the Making of an Icon reception #TateModern. Holding my new book in wonder. This painting "The Frame" encouraged me as a #speechandlanguagetherapy student with severe #scoliosis and #spinalinjury. Wonderful to be invited to introduce, curate, edit this bk @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social

FAB party for my book #wingstofly on Creativity & Endurance in the words & pictures of #FridaKahlo. Thrilled Fanny Mozu-Simpson came: a ' #scoliosiswarrior sister', Senior Teaching Fellow in diagnostics & anatomy to medical students @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Her www: fusednotfragile.co.uk

Oh Thank you kindly @carolinebowen.bsky.social ! Such a surprise being commissioned for this. It took me to old archives & FK's last lover's nephew, whom I found in 🇫🇷. My personal connection to FK goes back to my 20s, living with scoliosis & the guy who brought her work to the UK. All in the intro❤️‍🔥

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social Still thrilled about me new book published yesterday. Frida Kahlo's quotes and pictures personal connection to her life & work. September Publishing says it's already stocked:UK; Scandinavia;Spain; Australia; New Zealand; Germany;France;Romania;Slovakia & S Africa❤️‍🔥

do you happen to know where she actually said/wrote this exactly -I'd love to know 🙏 ( my new book of her quotes and pictures just out and I cd never find the provenance of that one- so only mentioned it in the forward asking for clues...)

My book is out today!"Wings to Fly on Endurance and Creativity" in the words and pictures of #FridaKahlo - commissioned by September Publishing -compiled, edited, introduced by me. Stocked in the UK Scandinavia;France;Spain;Germany;Italy;Romania; Slovakia;;South Africa;Australia & New Zealand asap

Thank you - Really glad to have found it! I'm preparing next storytelling performance : Back to Back with Frida Kahlo - which we premiered on the centenary of her accident last September. Although mostly I use storytelling as a way to promote communication with chn&adults with severe disabilities...

Wonderful time gathering plants for The Dusk Gardener, picked this morning by two seven year olds I help with on Fridays - a bit of biodynamic nutritious heaven - both the food and blossoms and being with them...

How was World Book Day? Any favourite costumes or books?! Here's a brilliant staircase & graffiti at the schl where I ran Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling part1-2day training for the Children's Integrated Speech & Language Therapy Service for Hackney and the City which was a very vivacious day!

Touchd to be invitd to the Memorial Wednesday night for the wife of #SirMarkRylance: composer & playwright #ClaireVanKampen I've never wept so much at a performance. Exquisite portrayal of power of #music & #song thro CVK's wit & wisdom, MK's inner child, #MelodyGrove's grace & #IestynDavies voice!👏

Excitedly preparing to train 50 Attention Autism Practitioners day after tmw #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #InclusiveEducation #autismawareness Gathering my #storytelling tools....only sad to be going away from husband The Dusk Gardener, and lovely SaLT who stays with us Monday nights.

Some poignant and celebratory moments in the Q'nA at the launch of Living with Scoliosis photo courtesy of Amelie scoliosis.with.at c/o scoliosis research uk ssr.org.uk #scoliosis #scoliosisawareness #scoliosiswarrior

Lovely to be called in as a kind of #storytelling ambulance - and great to be able to rearrange day so can be there to run #CPD for #Teachers #Authors #Storytellers #Therapists #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #education #accessibility www.hastingsstoryfest.org.uk/2025-adults :

friend to me to old Hastings this eve....

Tmw! Invited to run training day & do some storytelling at Ringwood Shelling School, where I lived & worked as a volunteer Carer/ #SaLT for 6 yrs with chn with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities& autism.They taught me how to be a Human B & SaLT. Now: ⬆️ EB oral #storytelling rhythm gesture.

Fine group of Speech Pathologists, 1 #OT and a manager #childrenscare who took part in #Lis'nTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling part 1 training, end of May this year. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 #Lis'nTell core practitioner #SaLT @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying me & to fabulous 🇲🇹 hospitality, commitment & experience 👏🏼

Unexpected article abt the essence of Lis'n Tell:live inclusive storytelling by 🇲🇹 #SLP Veronica Montanaro (PhD student Leeds Uni) b4 our recent 🇲🇹 visit. Many thanks to VM🌞 for inviting me to run Part 1 again & to @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying brilliantly🌟 www.taascmalta.com/blog/span-cl...

Back from training #SLP team in Malta🇲🇹 with Lis'n Tell Core Practitioner #SLT Caroline Casula. Loved their expressiveness, engagement, insights. Moved by 'de-institutionalisation' in senior /child care homes & how they see Lis'n Tell part of that. Special Assistance at airports fantastic each way ♿

Finding this so interesting and looking forward to conversation this evening #SaLTBkGrp about: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin...

Glasses with windscreen wipers & flashing lights are sometimes useful for telling a story #inclusivestorytelling #props #attentiondevelopment #languagedevelopment previous #liveinclusivestorytelling training Part 1 Intensive. Next: 15-16 May 2025 London with Core Practitioner SaLT Siobhan Ray & me

#SaLTBkGrp a deep searching journey into our practice & experience it was with #AVisionFromtheMargin #intersectionality #racism Suggestions coming in for next book.We'll decide soon. #RCSLT April 2025 paper on Learning from the experiences of disabled SLTs in the workplace?or📙👇🏼? Or a research paper?

"Individuals with intellectual disability may have limited narrative skills....findings indicate ⬇️ coherence, syntactic complexity& grammatical sentences" Altman et al 2022 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35428038/ Strengths also cited & ongoing devlpmnt👇🏼Lis'n Tell acknowledges & aims to build on strengths.

🎉 to be invitd 3rd time to train #SaLT team in Malta. This yr assistd by SaLT Caroline Casula. I've met FAB friendly engaging Maltese teamwrk. My spinal surgeon 'retired' there & as volunteer-introducd pioneering programme to screen & treat children's scoliosis. Eventually backed by the govrnmnt ❤️ 🇲🇹

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