Today, we are celebrating Laura, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, who recently qualified as a Dysphagia Practitioner. Dysphagia is the medical term used to describe swallowing difficulties (NHS, 2021). To celebrate Laura’s latest achievements, we sat down with her to discuss her career. Let’s take a look at her story… Laura started [...]
10 Year Service Awards On Friday 23rd July, we celebrated another four members of our team reaching 10 years of service at CCL. Vikki Pryce, our Chief Executive, hosted the morning awards, accompanied by CCL’s Executive Group and tea, coffee and, most importantly, cake! For those of you who aren’t aware, we started our 10 [...]
CCL’s Celebration Day 2021 On Wednesday 21st July, we hosted our CCL Celebration Day. Whilst we would have loved to all celebrate together in person, with the rise in COVID cases, we did not feel it was safe enough to do so. Therefore, similar to last year, we held the Celebration Day via Zoom, with [...]
Take a look at CCL's June 2021 highlights: CCL e-Newsletter June 2021
Update: Thursday 24th June As I am sure many of you know, last week was Learning Disability Week. To celebrate, Hannah and Emma from Church View signed 'You've got a friend in me' in Makaton. Take a look: https://youtu.be/w3lkQbbyR5U http://youtu.be/w3lkQbbyR5U Update: Tuesday 22nd June 2021 Last week was #LearningDisabilityWeek. This year it [...]
At CCL, it has been a life-long goal to raise funds to build and open a Hydrotherapy Pool. In 2020, CCL achieved this goal. Unfortunately, due to COVID, CCL’s young people have been unable to use the pool since it was built. However, today (07/06/2021) the pool opened, allowing CCL’s learners and residents to begin [...]
On Sunday, the lovely Sam V from Harley Road celebrated his 21st birthday! He had a wonderful day with balloons, cards and lots of gifts. As if that wasn’t enough, his parents organised an ice cream van, which was enjoyed by all at Harley Road. Sam’s day just kept getting better, with his mum and [...]
This week is Learning at Work Week. At CCL, many of our team members are learning at work. Every Support Worker completes Level 3 Health & Social Care as part of their role. In addition to this, many of our team members are completing qualifications up to post-graduate level. https://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/pages/news/category/learning-at-work-week Let’s look back at those [...]
Today, we are celebrating Jade, one of our Speech & Language Therapists, because we can, but also because she is one of 30 Speech & Language Therapists in the country to be trained in Sensory Integration. Jade completed her postgraduate certificate in Sensory Integration in March 2021, making her a qualified Sensory Integration Practitioner. Jade [...]
Take a look at our March 2021 e-Newsletter: CCL e-Newsletter March 2021
