Alex W

This is one of my favourite Lingthusiasm episode genres: Find one topic that lets us traipse through a whole heap of different subfields of linguistics.

The nose takes us through etymology, phonetics, sign phonology, idioms and gesture. It's a very fun episode.

The first paper from Shengfu’s PhD! A scoping review on recast dosage for children with #DLD. With increased attention to how much we do of what we do, this is an important contribution @ashajournals.bsky.social

Narrative production in English speaking children aged 5–7 years with typical language development and developmental language disorder: Development of a reference data set We explored the development of expressive narrative using Peter and the Cat. We aimed to support clinicians to capture information about functional language use by providing a reference data set to...

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Narrative production in English speaking children aged 5–7 years with typical language development and developmental language disorder: Development of a reference data set
#DevLangDis @blacksheeppress.bsky.social @samueldcalder.bsky.social

So many informal #DEAP assessments.. so many blank expressions when I show them the first picture from the #speech screen (you might know the one). So...I've decided to improvise.. Do you think the kiddoes'll know what this is a pic of instead?? 🤔

Had a lad in for assessment. He was not in the mood for the #CELF so I opted for Plan B of informal #minecraft themed battery of subtests instead. He was delighted (and I was relieved! 😅). #pearson if you're in the market for a special edition assessment (like Monopoly?) I'm there for you! 😆

YouTube video by SaLT by the Sea What is Intensive Interaction?

Cant get enough of SaLT By The Sea. Explains concepts so approachably and says in a sentence what I take a paragraph to get across.. Hope she doesn't mind if I poach some of her best lines as I think they're golden. 👌

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists in the Schools Purpose: A history of trauma is significantly related to the likelihood of having a language disorder. Given that one in seven children experienc...

🔐💰😳🙄Staggering statistic in @ashajournals.bsky.social ≈ 3.5m children or 1 in every 7 chn experience maltreatment in the 🇺🇸United States annually (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Admin for Children and Families, 2021; CDC, 2022, respectively), 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

Brilliant thread for anyone interested in child language development

Older Children’s Speech Errors (4)

I am continuing my series of blog posts about older children’s speech errors, in particular, mispronunciation of long or complex words. I am speculating about the possible cause of speech errors produced by older children. On March 10, 2025, I started a series on…

Cover of the Concept Cat book, with cat and authors Anna Branagan and Stephen Parsons

You are invited to the launch of 'Concept Cat: teaching Concepts in the Early Years' on June 23rd at 12.30. It's free and online. You'll hear about this impactful approach and the chance to win a free copy of the book www.eventbrite.com/e/1389222815...
Teachers, EY practitioners and SaLT welcome.

Our next journal club, held in conjunction with @cltt.bsky.social and facilitated by @vjoffe.bsky.social is coming up on June 2nd.
Free to members. Book your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/journal-cl...
If you're not a member, join for just £20: www.naplic.org.uk/membership/ #DevLangDis #SLCN

A thread of other indicators that things are not well for our young people

This has been brewing for a long time.

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Language Interventions for School-Aged Children Who Are d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Purpose: The main aim of the systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the effectiveness of language interventions for school-aged chil...

🆓🔓 @ashajournals.bsky.social Included interventions varied in content & duration but were overall effective in improving meaning-based language outcomes. The overall effect of intervention was large (g=0.79) and consistent for vocab (g=0.71) and morphosyntax (g = 0.81). pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

Speech-Language Pathologists' Perspectives on Language Assessment in Bilingual Children Purpose: This study used a semistructured open interview approach to gather information from school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) reg...

Using a semistructured open interview approach, authors of this study gathered information from school-based SLPs regarding their assessment practices for bilingual children with suspected language disorders.

#SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES #LSHSS

As a newly minted EY SLT I love what I do. Kids & their families have taught me so much.

🤔Would love some insights from those wiser than I here:
How can I best support families who are/have been experiencing loss of comm skills in their little ones?

TIA!

#autism #earlyyears #sltpeeps #asd #asc

Utility of the Language Use Inventory in Young Children at Elevated Likelihood of Autism Purpose: The aims of this study were (a) to evaluate the convergent validity of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) with measures of autism spectrum...

#openaccess

Utility of the Language Use Inventory in Young Children at Elevated Risk of Autism

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A wonderful collaboration with colleagues at Texas Tech U & UCD MIND Institute

#earlyyears #languagedevelopment
#earlyintervention #autism #SLP #SLPeeps #SLT #prek

Great morning sharing the @bicycle-study.bsky.social on BBC Woman’s Hour, and talking about children’s #talking and #thinking skills after #lockdown.

#SLPeeps #BlueSkySpeechies

DLD - What every teacher needs to know and why Made with Padlet

Great to present with @beckyclark22.bsky.social at ResearchED Scandinavia - DLD Demystified #DevLangDis slides, articles and resources available bit.ly/DLDForwoodan...

Quantity and Complexity of Speech-Language Pathologists' Talk During School-Based Therapy Purpose: This study examined the quantity and complexity of speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') talk during therapy with school-aged children a...

🆓🔓 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Sun, J., Justice, L. M., Jhuo, R. A., & Jiang, H. (2025). Quantity and Complexity of SLPs' Talk During School-Based Therapy. AJSLP. doi.org/10.1044/2024...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #DevLangDis

Readable ✔️
Relevant ✔️
Relatable ✔️

Good article for a journal club ♣️.

The most clicked-on article from the January
@speechbite.bsky.social
newsletter was a systematic review looking at gestalt language processing and natural language acquisition bit.ly/4i45Eg9 It's open access! #SLPeeps #SLP2B #SLT #bskySPEECHIES

4 emojis. Hurt, jealous, disgusted and guilty

It's #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek so a good time to remember that lots of young people with #SEMH also have #SLCN.
Also check out this FREE excerpt from our 'Language for Behaviour and Emotions' book.
www.routledge.com/go/language-... @melaniespeechie.bsky.social @lang4think.bsky.social

🧵A while ago, I posted about how I teach vocabulary. I collect all tier 2 vocab from the unit I'll be teaching + within my discrete grammar lesson each wk we do 20 ish mins of vocab work. In this thread, I'll go through what that looks like + then at the end link to the resource

This would make a great poster for #EarlyYears settings, with key messages to share with families. Thanks @juliangrenier.bsky.social for sharing

Looks like a fly agaric, normally have spots on them though.

The PM's Plan for Change is a big moment for the early years The new early years target creates urgency and accountability but needs laser focus and a clear plan.

Excellent blog from Sarah Cattan @nestauk.bsky.social - 'The PM's Plan for Change is a big moment for the early years'

'Whilst pushing up the proportion of "school ready" children by 7 percentage points over four years may initially look modest, it really isn’t.'

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Build pupils' schema to help them to make connections with new vocabulary, by using these 4 ideas.

We think with words, read them, articulate our ideas in speech and writing. Words are who we are.

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Science root words 9th March 2024 UPDATE: I have made 100 cards now, please find the whole batch below! For the past four years I have been working at an international school in Singapore. It is wonderful to work wit…

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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): A free guide for families – 3rd edition | Banter Speech & Language Developmental Language Disorder ('DLD') is common. But it is not well understood. We’ve written a lot about DLD and we wanted to organise our articles.

Hello, new followers, colleagues, & friends! Just sharing a link to our free resource for families of children with suspected or diagnosed #DevLangDis www.banterspeech.com.au/dld/