@wordaware.bsky.social
Stephen Parsons. Speech and Language Therapist, trainer and author. Chair of RADLD. Co-Chair of SLCA. Vocabulary, spoken language, oracy, Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis. #BskySpeechies thinkingtalking.co.uk
The Language and Literacy in Young People is an amazing resource. Thanks to @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @me-boyo.bsky.social and team for creating such valuable and practical work.
Loads of free evidence based downloads. languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/resources/fr...
#DevLangDis
AI Bingo. 4 x 4 grid, left to right, top to bottom: "Delve"; Lists for days; "Harness"; Excessive use of 'truly'; "It's not _ it's _"; Switches between UK and US English; "Grounded in"' Rammed with cliché phrases; "At it's core"; No specifics; Everything in threes; "Transform"; "Studies show..." (with no source); Repetitive sentence structures; Asks and answers rhetorical questions; "Elevate".
It's gone down well on LinkedIn so I'm sharing it here too. Next time you see a very heavily #AI written article or post you can have some fun with it by using my AI bingo card! What would you put on your own AI bingo card?
26.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
At yesterday's @naplic.bsky.social & @cltt.bsky.social journal club we discussed the term 'dosage' (of an intervention) and its applicability within an educational context.
I am not find of the term, but teachers in attendance hated it.
What alternatives are there?
@lalyp.bsky.social aims to share our work with clinicians and educators
Feel free to reach out and/or visit us at
languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com
sorry the time zones did not work out. Your video really helped the discussion though
25.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Language and Literacy in Young People is an amazing resource. Thanks to @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @me-boyo.bsky.social and team for creating such valuable and practical work.
Loads of free evidence based downloads. languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/resources/fr...
#DevLangDis
This looks brilliant. Free online seminar with @salonikrishnan.bsky.social. Thanks to @edldproject.bsky.social
Don't miss it if you are interested in language development.
The DLD event of the year is coming soon!
Don't miss your place at the NAPLIC conference. It promises once again to be something special.
Check it out: www.naplic.org.uk/conference-p...
Nook your place: www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
But don't miss the early bird rate.
#DevLangDis
If your school is serious about improving children's vocabulary then we have the solution. Evidence based, effective, manageable and fun!
General details of Word Aware: thinkingtalking.co.uk/word-aware/
Our next Word Aware course is next week. thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo...
Preferential voting is different to proportional representation. Each voter indicates 2nd, 3rd preferences etc. If their first choice is eliminated then their 2nd vote is counted. www.aec.gov.au/learn/prefer...
25.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Such a simple change. It better reflects the electorates views.
24.02.2026 21:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There are easy read documents available, both of the white paper and the consultation
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/699c91...
consult.education.gov.uk/send-strateg...
And shorter skim read documents
www.gov.uk/government/p...
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.
I learned a lot.
This is a lovely, lovely post about the joy of working in Early Years.
23.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What a beautiful positive post.
Nothing like working in EY!
I met an older man teacher, who'd taught Y6 for years. Under duress he moved to EY. And a few months in he was thinking he should have done it years ago!
You're looking at three golden tortoise beetles (Charidotella sexpunctata). They're native to the Americas, generally the east coast of North America all the way down to Argentina.
The gold coloration is structural, semi-reflective layers in the cuticle selectively reflect wavelengths of light.
Journal club for SLCN/DLD is on Wednesday at 3.30. The paper is about grammar interventions, and specifically Shape Coding. Run in conjunction with @cltt.bsky.social. Hosted by @vjoffe.bsky.social and Judy Clegg.
www.naplic.org.uk/events/
Free to members: www.naplic.org.uk/membership/
#DevLangDis
New funding includes a significant amount for outside support, including Speech and Language Therapy. That's good news.
Still need to work out where all of these staff come from. They are not currently unemployed!
The team at @thedldproject have invited me to be on a panel session ‘Stories that speak: Why books and representation matter’. Looking forward to chatting with the other panelists about the positive impact books about DLD make. As a parent to a child with DLD, I have bought them all! ##devlangdis
22.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thread.
22.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
That's the best competition it's been in years.
From my cursory knowledge of the topic...
A threatening and creepy tree I don't like at all, which speaks out of its bellybutton and is advancing towards me in tiny tree steps which it thinks I haven't noticed, and repeatedly asking me why I will not "Come inside where it is warm, for a nice treat."
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.
This is really interesting!
22.02.2026 09:17 — 👍 210 🔁 76 💬 13 📌 2The random, arbitrary nature of it all is scary. I just how some of these people do sue.
21.02.2026 11:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you're contemplating visiting the US, I suggest you read this first.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Great post. The Rumpelstiltskin effect was new to me.
I see the impact of Developmental Language Disorder diagnosis regularly. And of course even into adulthood.
But the diagnosis is only part of the story. And each person's path is different
🚨 NEW POST 🚨
‘The psychology of SEND labels’
“Receiving a diagnosis with a name and a status that medical experts validate can give children and adults a story, and an explanation, that renders their experience comprehensible.”
alexquigley.co.uk/the-psycholo...
Everyone of these posts is superb, but this one is a masterpiece in the uses of detail and subtle emphasis.
20.02.2026 05:55 — 👍 142 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 0
Discount code for Word Aware Concepts Assessment is 26SME1. Valid until June 2026
And it's publication day for 'Word Aware Concepts Assessment', an informal measure of Early Years children's understanding of words such as 'altogether, around, few.'
And heres a discount code!
Coauthored with @lang4think.bsky.social & Sarah Smith
Let us know if you have questions
Book cover for Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Kevin Waldron
Book cover for The Little Wooden Robot and The Log Princess by Tom Gauld
Book cover for Mixed by Arree Chung
Book cover for Margarash by Mark Riddle and Tim Miller
With World Book Day just round the corner I’ve seen quite a few teachers asking about good books to share in assembly.
For this week’s #KidsBooksFriday, what books do you think work well across age groups and/or with a mixed group of kids?
#KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit
