Left Behind: Why Speech and Language Therapy Is Still Waiting for Digital Transformation Healthcare has spent the last decade racing toward digital transformation. Electronic patient records, AI-assisted diagnostics, remote monitoring, predictive triage — the language of "digital health" is everywhere. But if you work in speech and language therapy, you'd be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about, because very little of it has arrived at your door. SLT services have consistently sat at the back of the queue for digital investment. When innovation does show up, it rarely arrives for SLT. A generic outcome-tracking tool designed for physiotherapy gets repurposed with a few relabelled fields. These are adaptations, not solutions — tools stretched to cover a service they were never built to understand, rather than something designed from the ground up with SLT clinicians, children, and families in mind. About Me I'm Dr Shona D'Arcy. My PhD looked at why sp...
WAIT-UP SLT is a research project that seeks to understand experiences of waiting within children's speech and language therapy services in England, specifically looking at the perspectives of a) speech and language therapy teams, b) parents and caregivers and c) children and young people. I will be using this blog to share views, news and updates, as well as to connect with others who might be interested in this topic. All opinions are my own.