Lists compiled by Linda Armstrong and Jois Stansfield covering a range of historical areas relating to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the profession in general.
Articles and analyses of topics relating to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the profession in general.
Notes regarding the development of speech and language therapy training and the profession.
Networking was a core activity for Nancy Tait's organisation, and one she pursued through the so-called 'SPAID Fellowship' (imagined as a supporters' club), through an extensive series of conferences and meetings, and through information exchange and the development of professional contacts and alliances with a range of organisations and individuals, notably unions, victims support groups, and legal experts. Primarily these were based in the UK. But Tait also maintained a North American correspondence, in particular with personal injury lawyers and with asbestos critics, and she avidly followed news on European health & safety regulation.
OEDA often tracked information by subject rather than by current activity or pending matter. In this manner the organisation tended to accumulate data on a range of occupational and environmental health themes.
Three series:
- materials relating specifically to Nancy Tait and her charity
- corporate records including SPAID trustee correspondence, OEDA management committee correspondence and minutes of meetings
- assessments of the organisation, business plans and measures of improvement
The section closes with a file relating predominantly to SPAID / OEDA's status as a charity.
SPAID Trust Deed is at "Early correspondence with SPAID trustees" (OEDA/A/2/1/1). OEDA Memorandum & Articles of Association is at "Correspondence with L B Horam, 1988-1995" (OEDA/A/2/3), January 1994.
Six series, each of them representing a type of information service provided by SPAID / OEDA. As follows:
- fielding occupational and environmental health enquiries
- publications by the organisation
- display boards and posters generated for use at meetings, conferences and around the office
- responses to requests for information from solicitors
- responses to requests for information from the media
The section concludes with a small series relating to compensation claims against the Johns-Manville Corporation / the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust.
Some examples of printed College of Speech and Language Therapists stationery and administrative documents/ tickets.
- registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
- information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
- some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
- standard forms authorising Nancy Tait to access her clients' medical records