Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻

RADiSSD Dosage Informational Video - Nov 2025 This is "RADiSSD Dosage Informational Video - Nov 2025" by Course Beetle on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

🙌 15 mins of pure gold! 🙌

In this EXCELLENT 🆓 video from @coursebeetle.co.uk, @jititterington.bsky.social, @heleneslt.bsky.social & @katinkabaker.bsky.social from the Raising Awareness of Dosage in SSD " #RADiSS" group talk about dosage in #CHILDspeechDIS. vimeo.com/1133992280?s... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Therein lies a problem. They are expert groakers, AND cute, so susceptible humans soon find themselves sharing the coveted delicacies. @pipbrandon.bsky.social

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🐾 Winne, 🐾 Rosie, and @pipbrandon.bsky.social #groak

What happens when we 'let the wrong one in'. Kenneth Goodman and Frank Smith’s whole language theory of reading, whereby decoding and word recognition are eschewed for the pursuit of meaning with the implication that learning to read is akin to ...

🖋️ @thereadingape.bsky.social💐writes: www.thereadingape.com/single-post/... #wholelanguage #read

*Nullius in verba is the @royalsociety.org's motto. It means "no one's words" or "take nobody's word for it". It's from Horace's poem reflecting the scientific principle of verifying facts by experiment.

Hello, @ashajournals.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social --- is " @ashaweb.bsky.social " the real deal? #ASHA2025

As an international scholar, I’m learning to speak up—accent and all “My ideas matter more than how I sound,” this postdoc writes

Remember this, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES?

“Sometimes people struggle to believe something said with an unfamiliar #accent.”

Ogochukwu Joseph Uweru

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Join Us in Celebrating Aboriginal Culture via Technology! Demand Apple to Add an Aboriginal Flag Emoji 159 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

I've lost count of the number of times I've wanted an Aboriginal flag emoji but have needed to settle for 🖤💛❤️.

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I signed, will you?

Thanks Jo. It's great, isn't it.

I thought half the 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES + #devlangdis world would be ❤️ liking, quote posting, and 🔖 bookmarking this important article. But no. Is it just me, or have SLPs/SLTs gone a bit quiet on Blue Sky?

Louise, @mbreen.bsky.social might have helpful leads.

*addition! Thanks (I don't think) autocorrect. 🙄

I have! Isn't it great. The beautiful Devonport Library in New Zealand would be a worthy edition. Amazing architecture and serene atmosphere. athfieldarchitects.co.nz/projects/civ...

Caregiver Oral Reading Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension Purpose: Shared reading is one of the most language-enriched contexts in children's home environments. A salient, understudied characteristic of ...

🔐💰 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Davison, K. E., Strang, C., Gray-Bauer, H., Liu, T., & Zuk, J. (2025). Caregiver Oral #Reading #Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension. JSLHR, 1–13. doi.org/10.1044/2025... Makes a lot of sense, 🦋 #bskyspeechies

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Read this: theconversation.com/australias-p... in @aunz.theconversation.com and thought of you, @batdogwalker.bsky.social #library #libraries #publiclibrary #booksky 🧡📚

Developmental Language Disorder as a Multidimensional Neurodevelopmental Spectrum: Implications for Diagnosis Purpose: We aimed to create a comprehensive understanding of the dilemmas involved in the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) and ...

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

‘A Lovely Safe Umbrella to Describe Yourself With’ or ‘Meaningless’: An Online Survey of UK-Based Neurodivergent Adults’ Views of Neurodiversity-Related Terminology - Aimee Grant, Jennifer Leigh, Moni... Background: Neurodivergence refers to people with ways of behaving and thinking that diverge from the norm. Examples include Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperacti...

Grant A Leigh J Botha M Macdonald SJ Williams K Williams G Rose K Memmott A & Pearson A 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2754...

What #autistic people & those with #ADHD & #dyslexia think about the word #neurodiversity theconversation.com/what-autisti...

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Rethinking Reading

🆓 Differentiating Comprehension from the Components of Reading written by Hugh W. Catts💐 & Alan G. Kamhi💐 & published by @aft.org #scienceofreading Reading "comprehension is not a skill or set of skills; rather, it is a complex multidimensional ability". www.aft.org/ae/winter202... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Evaluating the Relative Importance of Seven Language Screening Measures: A Preliminary Investigation Purpose: This preliminary study evaluated the relative importance of seven language screening measures, including sentence repetition, vocabulary...

🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social authors emphasise the strength of sentence repetition for screening, saying (1) it should be the cornerstone of language screening (2) +research is needed to see if additional language tests enhance accuracy. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Experience of a First Hearing Aid Fitting: Perspectives From Adults With Hearing Loss, Their Relatives, and Hearing Care Professionals Purpose: This study is the first step in a project aimed at developing an intervention program for new hearing aid (HA) users and their relatives...

🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social SimoneauK CormierL Lefebvre-DemersM BlackburnMO CôtéC BoucherN CroteauC & HottonM (2025). The Experience of a First Hearing Aid Fitting: Perspectives From Adults with H/L, Their Relatives, & HCPs. JSLHR, 68(11), 5592–5607. doi.org/10.1044/2025...
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🆓🔓Beiting, M., Viswanathan, N., Caballero, N., Hitchcock, E., @bitslab.bsky.social, & @jprestonslp.bsky.social (2025). Exploring perception of coarticulatory cues in #CAS and residual SSD: A pilot study. JComDis, 118, 106583. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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“I Just Want Him to Be Understood”: Parent Perspectives of the Long-Term Desired Outcomes and Experiences of Early Intervention for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech Purpose: This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents of young children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) in terms of (a) lon...

🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social Highman, C., Wylie, K., Overby, M., @suze-freogirl.bsky.social, Thilakaratne, R., & @tricmc.bsky.social (2025). "I Just Want Him to Be Understood": Parent Perspectives... #CAS AJSLP, 34(6), 3263–3278. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

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Cantonese Oral and Speech Motor Assessment for Preschool Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders Purpose: Oral and speech motor abilities are key components of assessments of Cantonese speakers with speech sound disorder (SSD), especially chi...

🆓🔓 in @ashajournals.bsky.social @eddychwong.bsky.social, Wong, M. N., Velleman, S. L., & Lai, E. M. C. (2025). Cantonese Oral and Speech Motor Assessment for Preschool Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders. AJSLP, 34(6), 3216–3237. doi.org/10.1044/2025...
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Instrumental Voice Evaluation in Children: What Are We Getting? Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the age at which children with voice disorders can complete videostroboscopy, acoustic, and aerod...

🆓-ACCESS in @ashajournals.bsky.social Fujiki,R. B., Venkatraman,A., Godbout,R. A., & Thibeault,S. L. (2025). Instrumental Voice Evaluation in Children: What Are We Getting?. AJSLP, 34(6), 3076–3090. doi.org/10.1044/2025... How well do chn tolerate instrumental voice assessments?

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A Family Systems Approach to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Service Delivery in the Inpatient Setting: Recommendations for Speech-Language Pathologists Purpose: Family-centered care is necessary to deliver high-quality health care services. It is especially critical that family members are includ...

💰🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Brittlebank, S., Gormley, J., Fiala, M., & Fosco, G. M. (2025). A Family Systems Approach to #augcom Service Delivery in the Inpatient Setting: Recommendations for SLPs. AJSLP, 34(6), 3042–3057. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

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Thank you, Stephen! We've appreciated your encouragement over the years.

Table of contents Acknowledgements ix Foreword xi Preface xii 1 Speaking to experts and learning the lingo 1 2 Research evidence 29 3 Making reasoned choices 51 4 Guilt and the quest for wűnderkinder 77 5 Parenting 109 6 Reading, writing and spelling 133 7 Language and speech 169 8 Voice, resonance and fluency 211 9 The developing brain: Executive functioning, working memory and self-regulation 253 10 Autism 281 11 The highs and lows of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) 319 12 Fitting in and getting on with others 359 13 Myth-busting, identifying misinformation and fact checking 383 Epilogue 419 Glossary 423 Index

📙 #EBPRoadmap Table of Contents 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

📙 #EBPRoadmap includes a comprehensive list of abbreviations, acronyms and an extensive glossary of terms which anyone can download 🆓 from speech-language-therapy.com/images/roadm...

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We wrote this for a diverse readership of parents, educators, young people and adults with SLCN, neurodiverse individuals, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, and anyone else wanting to know about evidence-based practice. Publication date January 2, 2026. Pre-order for 15%-off RRP. www.jr-press.co.uk/product/evid...