Your chance to win the 2008 Sternberg Award
The RCSLT seeks entries for this year's £1,000 Sternberg Award for Clinical Innovation.
RCSLT Senior Life Vice President Sir Sigmund Sternberg established his annual award in 1996 to recognise outstanding clinical innovation in 1996 because, as he says, he is, "a great believer in awards".
Every year since he has generously donated £1,000 towards projects that have extended clinical practice in the field of speech and language therapy.
Last year there were two joint winners of the Sternberg Award.
The first was Daniel Hunter, who developed a structured model of service delivery for under-five-year-olds who stammer.
He also developed his own unique risk-profiling tool to target limited resources in a cost effective, cost efficient and ethical manner. This introduced equality of service, eliminated waiting lists and produced a 98.5% success rate in treatment.
The British Stammering Association recognised this as a 'gold standard' model and chose Daniel to lead on a major project, Every child's chance at fluency.
Using her experience with deaf students with cerebral palsy, Jackie Barker designed a set of communication pages that can speak and sign a message.
The Seashell Speak and Sign pages provide symbol access to over 1,000 moving signs.
In June 2007, Jackie extended Seashell to the interactive whiteboards in classrooms and teachers are delighted with it as a language resource for deaf and hearing students.
If you know of a speech and language therapy project that you think should be considered for the 2008 Sternberg Award, email Bridget Ramsey and send the following information by 25 June:
- Name of nominee, and workplace address
- Why they deserve the award (maximum 500 words)
- Names and signatures of one proposer and two seconders (all RCSLT members)