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Daniela O’Neill

@danielaoneill.bsky.social

Expert on how children’s social pragmatic communication grows & developer of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) to assess this in 2- & 3-year-olds #DevLangDis | Outreach on #PlayfulLearning #language & #literacy in urban spaces @UofWaterloo πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ #bskySPEECHIES

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Dialogic book reading intervention for children with DLD across different languages and cultural settings: An international feasibility study - Melanie Ferk-Dornstauder, Edith Kouba Hreich, Margarita ... Intervention studies targeting developmental language disorder (DLD) have been conducted mainly with monolingual English-speaking children and bilingual childre...

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Dialogic book reading intervention for children with DLD across different languages and cultural settings: An international feasibility study

#DevLangDis #DLDday Oct 17 #languagedevelopment #picturebooks #literacy #earlyintervention #preschoolers #bskyspeechies

08.10.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...

08.10.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘ @jumpmath.bsky.social πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
#earlyed #ECE #earlyyears #math #prek #preschool

07.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oct 17 is #DLDday Internationally!

This is a great podcast to learn more about Developmental Language Disorder, a hidden but common lifelong disability that affects 2 children in every classroom of 30.

#DLD #ElemEd #cdned #K12 #languagedevelopment

05.10.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Your Brain Conducts the Symphony of Speech A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements. This discovery revolutionized speech science.

How your brain conducts the symphony of speech. My latest post on @psychtoday.bsky.social , excerpted and adapted from my forthcoming book, Wired for Words @mitpress.bsky.social

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

26.09.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Connecting Neuroscience with Education "Connecting Neuroscience with Education" published on 02 Oct 2025 by Brill.

#openaccess FULL e-book!

Connecting Neuroscience to Education

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#bskyedu #education #K12 #neuroscience #cognition #learning #scienceoflearning #cdned

04.10.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charting the Shift: Age as a Moderator of the Genetic and Environmental Influences on Reading Reading is influenced by genes and environments throughout life. Using a U.S. twin sample (N = 1086; 564 Male: 522 Female; Age M = 7.46 years, SD = 1.57, with 90% self-reported as White, 8% Black, ...

Important new research by University of Waterloo’s @uwaterloopsych.bsky.social
Sara Hart and colleagues demonstrates that genetic or environmental influences on reading skills change with age. see: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

02.10.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Selective Attention in Early Word Learning: An Eye‐Tracking Study on Viewing Naturalistic Egocentric Scenes To learn a word from an everyday context, infants need to be able to link the heard word with the correct object perceived. A prevailing view of the early learning environment is that infants' world ....

Zhang & Yu (2025) eye-tracking study: 12mos selectively focus on only a few objects at naming moments while viewing cluttered scenes; gaze highly constrained by visual saliency of scenes➑️highlights perception’s role in early word learning #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

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Balanced literacy didn’t workβ€”will balanced math? with Ben Solomon (Ep 54) Podcast Episode Β· Chalk & Talk Β· 2025-09-12 Β· 1h 10m

On @rastokke.bsky.social podcast

Balanced literacy didn’t work – will balanced math? With Ben Solomon

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#math #scienceofmath #elemed

26.09.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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S5E03: John Mighton on Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time Podcast Episode Β· Progressively Incorrect Β· 2025-09-20 Β· 44m

Interview with John Mighton of @jumpmath.bsky.social

Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time

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#math #elemed #bskyedu

26.09.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How one math teacher’s training went so wrong Learning how to teach math was the last priority in teacher education, says one teacher

How one math teacher’s training went so wrong

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via The Bell Ringer on Substack

#math #bskyedu #highered

26.09.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay! So glad to have been a part of this team. Go @drsrishtin.bsky.social et al!!

26.09.2025 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New reading laws sweep the nation following Sold a Story At least 26 states have passed laws about how schools teach reading since APM Reports’ Sold a Story podcast began in 2022. But proponents of the disproven ideas about reading exposed in the podcast ha...

More than half the states have passed new reading laws since Sold a Story.
We just updated our article and map. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...

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Header graphic for Picture Books 101. One spot illustration shows an enthusiastic woman handing a big pile of papers to another woman. First woman is saying, "Here's my 8628 word epic picture book mss!" Another spot illustration shows a blue flower-decorated cup full of drawing and writing tools.

Header graphic for Picture Books 101. One spot illustration shows an enthusiastic woman handing a big pile of papers to another woman. First woman is saying, "Here's my 8628 word epic picture book mss!" Another spot illustration shows a blue flower-decorated cup full of drawing and writing tools.

Illustrated diagram showing how a cover is attached to a self-ended picture book.

Illustrated diagram showing how a cover is attached to a self-ended picture book.

Curious why a standard picture book is 32 pages in traditional #KidLit trade publishing? And why NOT all 32 pages are for story content? In this #PictureBooks101 post, I explain picture book format & construction:
debbieohi.com/2025/09/pict...

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β€˜For many Ts, balanced literacy was a welcome turn away from lesson plans in which all children at a certain grade level read the same stories and answered the same predetermined Q’s...

β€œIt used books that kids would actually read, which made it more meaningful for them.”’

archive.ph/7lass

20.09.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#scienceofmath #elemed #cdned #math

Follow πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Anna Stokke for many more links to episodes of her Chalk and Talk podcast, other podcasts she’s appeared on, and for much more information about evidence-informed math instruction!

14.09.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Early outcomes of a structured literacy implementation across a school system: the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn Catalyst program Although professional learning is the main approach for improving teacher knowledge, little evidence exists for its effectiveness in changing practice and improving student outcomes. One possible e...

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Early outcomes of a structured literacy implementation across a school system: the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn Catalyst program

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread

13.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The School-to-Prison Pipeline Runs Right Through Reading Classrooms Hilderbrand Pelzer III is an educator, author, and national speaker whose career spans teaching, school leadership, and district leadership. Drawing on decades as a principal, district leader, and adv...

Early reading failure fuels the school-to-prison pipeline.

In a new op-ed, educator & national speaker @hilderbrandpelzer3.bsky.social explains why literacy is freedom work & how leaders can interrupt the pipeline where it begins: in our classrooms.

11.09.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Academic papers ask "Does X improve learning?" but schools need to know "Does X improve learning enough to justify its implementation costs compared to alternative Y?"

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Nothing tickles your baby’s funny bone like the unexpected.

(Thread 🧡)

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Worked πŸ™‚ Thanks!

29.08.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@radld.bsky.social are relatively new on BlueSky. Please give them a follow and join the growing community raising awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Learn about DLD, connect and make a difference. #DevLangDis #DLDday

25.08.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really important point about language. Whilst early intervention is critical, it is not sufficient for those with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). They need access to support over longer time frames. #DevLangDis

26.08.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread

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S03E04 - Dr. Matthew Burns on Effective Assessment: Using Data to Drive Reading & Maths Intervention - Learning with Mr. Lee In this episode, get ready to dive deep into the world of assessments with Dr. Matthew Burns, as we explore the different categories of assessments, their intended purposes, and how they can be used t...

Any school who is in budget season needs to listen to Dr. Burns on Knowledge for Teachers podcast @learnwithmrlee.bsky.social, minute 38 is the reason why we moved on from so many products. Important information throughout the podcast. www.learnwithlee.net/kft-matthewb...

23.02.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #literacyisequity #untilallcanread

23.08.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to reading it! But I think the link isn’t working quite right as I get an error page

23.08.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1
YouTube video by CrashCourse What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1

the first crash course linguistics video now has a million views, @superlinguo.bsky.social @jessgrieser.com aren't you glad we worked on this in 2020

anyway if you want some fun 10 min linguistics videos to watch you can still do that!

22.08.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

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