Professor Helen Stringer

Chapter on Speech Sound Disorders by network members @drjoannecleland.bsky.social and @drhelenslt.bsky.social . Great intro for #SLP students

Erika Spanger from UCS explains how climate change is fueling Hurricane Melissa and what it means for people in its path.

Magazine tip: Save money at the supermarket by peeling your bananas before weighing them. This will also mean you have less rubbish to throw away at home, saving you more money in bin liners.

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We’re helping Dan Neidle face down a seven-figure SLAPP | Good Law Project A barrister who was flogging tax avoidance schemes is now suing Dan Neidle for a defamation payout of over £8m. But we’re not backing down.

A barrister who was flogging tax avoidance schemes is now suing @danneidle.bsky.social for a defamation payout of over £8m.

But we’re not backing down.

We’re applying to get this SLAPP struck out:
https://goodlaw.social/woom

A reminder that you can donate to Wikipedia to keep human-sourced knowledge accessible.

Paracetamol (Tylenol) is one of the most effective and safe painkillers ever discovered. Keep within the recommended dose. Take it in pregnancy if you need to. It has been shown in MANY studies not to cause autism. 🧪

"Reeves considers breaking manifesto pledge with income tax rise to fill £30bn gap"

"Sir Keir Starmer has pledged that digital ID will never be a requirement of access to the NHS."

'We are super trustworthy' (two stories, same day).

Really enjoyed this today - some fantastic discussions!
@yvonnewren.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social

Promotional image for a professional visit day at Meath School, featuring an adult and a child engaged in an educational activity. The event details are displayed: Thu 27 Nov 2025, 9:15am-2:45pm, £50 per person with lunch included. A call to action to register interest is also visible.

Educators and professionals 👋

Join us at Meath School’s professional visit day to see communication-first classrooms in action and hear from specialist staff on practical tools that help the 1 in 5 children with speech and language challenges.

Register: https://bit.ly/3Wjw84c

#DLDday is coming, so I’m starting a thread over a few days.

DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) is all about spoken language. Words and sentences are tricky for people with DLD. And people don’t grow out of it.
#DevLangDis @radld.bsky.social

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

This is very good from @zackpolanski.bsky.social. It's exactly what I hoped *and expected* to hear from a Labour government but sadly didn't.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Professor Maggie Snowling will be presenting on Monday Oct 6th at 4pm at the SLCN specialist teacher network. All about DLD and literacy. Online. One not to be missed.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dldslcn-sp...

Free to members, which starts from £20 per year.
www.naplic.org.uk/membership/

#DevLangDis

Card with UK young Academy branding asking neurodivergent people to share their experiences at work

October is an exciting month - it includes Dyslexia Awareness week (#DAW25), ADHD Awareness Month, and DLD Awareness Day - and I thought it was a great time to raise awareness of #neurodiversity - and talk about a new project thats close to my heart..

@BSLTRU recently undertook a survey for the @RCSLT to evaluate their Professional Development Framework. We want to add some colour to the quantitative findings! Could you spare 30 mins or so to tell Sam how you have used it? Drop an email - samantha.harding@nbt.nhs.uk

Very proud to see brilliant SLT Researcher @samburrslt.bsky.social mentioned not once but twice in this list of awards. Congratulation Sam!

Good news- more #SSD research happening in the UK. This project will look at the feasibility of collecting a core outcomes set from children with speech sound disorders in Wales.

@nionwomen.bsky.social
Could you promote this consultation about keeping Hampstead Heath ponds trans inclusive? The ponds are nice and god knows trans people don't need any more joy removing from their lives.

Terfs are all over this.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

If you want to email Keir Starmer telling him, politely, what you think of his plan for digital ID cards we've made it super easy for you:

goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...

Fantastic news! @yvonnewren.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social

@csdrnetwork.bsky.social @speechandlanguk.bsky.social @afasic.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @vjoffe.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @jititterington.bsky.social

Would be great if you could sign & share this petition 🙏

Anyone in the UK can sign the petition.

The Influence of Minority Views on Majority Participation in Online Discourse | Journal of Media Psychology

We must understand how minority views influence majority participation in online discourse. The authors study Republican supporters of childhood vaccines (the majority) and how they react when exposed to an online environment dominated by anti-vax Republicans (the minority) #Misinformation

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

Can epidemiology models explain how rumours spread? This analysis, using the Great Fear as a case study, provides a quantitative answer to "the unresolved debate between the role of emotions and rationality in explaining its diffusion." #BehaviouralScience

About Me It feels rather odd to be creating a whole post 'about me'; somewhat egocentric.  I do, however, believe that people should be able to know ...

Blog post: About me
#WaitUpSLT
waitupslt.blogspot.com/2025/07/abou...

Children's speech and language therapy waiting lists continue to grow Earlier this month  NHS England (2025)  released the June 2025 waiting list figures for Community Health Services. Despite assurances last...

New blog post: Children's speech & language therapy waiting lists continue to grow.
According to @england.nhs.uk data, 70,698 children & young people were waiting for SLT support in June 2025 - up 3.69% from May 2025. 26,485 (37%) were waiting over 18 weeks.
waitupslt.blogspot.com/2025/08/chil...

The #WaitUPSLT blog has now been viewed over 500 times! Thank you for your continued interest and engagement. 🙏🌟
#Research #ResearchOpportunity
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Opportunity to join research advisory groups! WAIT-UP SLT is seeking expressions of interest from:
👥 parents and caregivers: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bcu/waitup...
👥 individuals working within speech and language therapy services: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bcu/waitup...
Please share 🙏

Use of the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation‐Behaviour Model and Theoretical Domains Framework to Understand Barriers and Enablers of Research Capacity and Culture for Speech and Language Therapy Staff Background Research Capacity and Culture (RCC) is important for research engagement. Little is known of what speech and language therapy staff perceives to be the barriers or enablers to this at ind...

Read about Research Capacity in SLT/P a great study led by brilliant SLT @katiedooslt.bsky.social using behaviour change models (TDF & COM-B) to make sense of it!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are delighted to have @drhelenslt.bsky.social join us this morning to discuss the importance of agreed terminology in speech sound disorders. Thank you Helen and thank you all for joining us! #iaslt #iasltcpd

New article from my PhD findings. Children aged 5-8 with CLP had lower visual and auditory attention skills compared with norms and these skills were correlated with language outcomes. Available open access @drhelenslt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....