Breaking Barriers: Disabled and neurodivergent SLTs changing practice
£24.99
Claire Westwood (Editor)
In the UK, 22% of SLT students and approximately 1 in 5 SLTs have a disability. And yet 50% of disabled SLTs report that their employers either have limited or no understanding of disability itself. Not only that, but disabled SLTs report negative experiences or discrimination in the workplace.
Description
In the UK, 22% of SLT students and approximately 1 in 5 SLTs have a disability. And yet 50% of disabled SLTs report that their employers either have limited or no understanding of disability itself. Not only that, but disabled SLTs report negative experiences or discrimination in the workplace.
Despite all of this, being a disabled or neurodivergent SLT can enrich the clinical role with, amongst other things, a unique empathy for service users. At the same time, like the service user, they experience the challenges faced by being a disabled person in an ableist society.
Breaking Barriers is the first book to bring together a collection of lived accounts and commentary specifically on the disabled and neurodivergent SLT and student SLT experience. It aims both to bring to light marginalized perspectives outside of the main narrative and to radically reconceptualize and reframe disability in order to challenge ableism within the profession and wider society.
ISBN 978-1-917465-14-4
Forthcoming Spring 2026
Price guide £24.99