Dr Mari Viviers

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We followed children’s language, socioemotional, and educational progress for three years following the initial COVID-19 lockdowns. Exciting to see the final report of this @nuffieldfoundation.org funded project published, which shows and discusses a picture of mixed findings: www.iciclesproject.com

Always love the lifespan focus of sessions here @uksrg.bsky.social
@sarahkedney.bsky.social now sharing her findings near the end of PhD
Factors influencing feeding outcomes following HIE in neonates.
#UKSRG2026

Anaesthetist Dr Joseph Alderman kicking things off at #UKSRG26 - machine learning, machine bias and how to get it right with AI in a clinical setting. Fabulous talk!

Second day at #UKSRG2026
Second poster. Lots of great projects being shared.

CPD opportunity

📅✨ Grab your 2026 diary and secure your place at the BAPM Spring Conference!
Join resident doctors, ANNPs and AHPs for two days of learning, networking and the latest clinical updates.

📍 Northampton & Online
🗓️ 10–11 March 2026
🎟️ Early bird tickets available now!
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Committee Members needed to help run BAPM Special Interest Group BANNFU We are seeking dedicated and enthusiastic members to join the executive committee of BAPM’s special interest group (SIG) BANNFU. The British Association for Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-up…

📢 BANNFU Executive Committee Vacancies
We’re looking for passionate members to help shape national neonatal follow-up services and support education, research and standards of care.

📅 Deadline: 30 Nov
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Great wee straightforward myth-busting read from powerhouses in the field. Any of Palmer’s (esp BOLUS framework) and Leslie’s (esp ethics) work is well worth a read for any dysphagia clinician.

This talk will include a brief review of brain injury and brain development in preterm babies and ways in which we can promote brain development. 

🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
📍 Where: Facebook | X | YouTube

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🤩Just 7 days to bag yourself for #UKSRG26 Early Bird tickets before prices increase! 🚨

Join us for themes including oesophageal dysphagia, AI, impact of dysphagia, palliative care & respiratory!!!

Workshops can be selected during registration!

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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

Supporting families with preterm infants on their developmentally supportive feeding journey is but one of the roles of speech and language therapists in the neonatal unit #NICUParentHeroes #WorldPrematurityDay @neosltcen.bsky.social

Paediatric feeding conference in 2026 - for more info see: iapfs.org/convention-p...

🚨 Early bird tickets for #UKSRG26 are still available! Join us 5th-6th Feb 2026 @ Birmingham for cutting-edge sessions on:

🤖 AI
🏥 Critical Care
🫁 Respiratory
🗣️ Oesophageal Disorders
🌿 Palliative Care
🥣 Impact of Dysphagia

Secure your spot now 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event…

Join us for a webinar to mark World Prematurity Day 💜
We’ll explore the lifelong impact of prematurity, support for families, & how to improve long-term outcomes for children born preterm.

Date: 20 November
Time: 1:00-2:30pm
www.bapm.org/events/world...

Mass General Brigham studied 18,124 births and found that children exposed to maternal COVID-19 in the womb had a 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3, especially if exposure happened in the third trimester or in male children.

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Parent Perspectives of Pediatricians as Facilitators and Barriers to Follow-Up for the Newborn Hearing Evaluation Process Purpose: This study aims to examine the role of pediatricians as facilitators affecting follow-up throughout the newborn hearing screening (NBHS)...

Pediatricians who communicate without jargon, listen to parents' concern, and ensure families have enough time during appointments can influence follow-up after a newborn hearing evaluation. Learn more from #ASHASIG7 https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-24-00188 #AuDPeeps

Excited to have my first ever co-written book chapter in here. On eating, drinking & swallowing difficulties. Great to write it with @dianejsellers.bsky.social @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social & Ailish Hope people find it useful 👇🏼

Afternoon everyone! Just a reminder that early bird tickets for the UKSRG 2026 conference will be on sale until 1st of December! 🦅

We will be releasing more information over the coming months including speaker spotlights and themes.

Tickets 🔗: app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...

Childrens' 'life chances at risk' due to unacceptable waits for community services Children, including those with developmental problems and disabilities, are facing unacceptably long waits for NHS community services, which are putting their life chances at risk, according to a new…

Children, including those with developmental problems and disabilities, are facing unacceptably long waits for NHS community services, which are putting their life chances at risk, according to a @nuffieldtrust.org.uk report.

🎥 Recordings of the first two webinars in BAPM’s QI Series are now available!

Free to view for BAPM members — just log in and visit the Resources page:
🔗 www.bapm.org/pages/191-re...

What an opportunity! 🤩

✅ Develop your #SLT research curiosity, knowledge and skills

✅ Support to develop your own #SLT research career if you want to

Great to hear this study from @kellyslt.bsky.social & colleagues. Important to think about eating, drinking & swallowing through childhood & beyond @essd-dysphagia.bsky.social

Mark Dickinson @nasuwt-official.bsky.social "highlighted the consequences of cuts to children’s services, including the lack of early intervention, long waiting lists for speech and language therapy...These services are not luxuries. They are the safety net that allows every child to thrive.”

If you are interested in eating and drinking difficulties often called #Dysphagia
Here’s a fab starter pack from @lisa-everton.bsky.social

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Great to have an overview of past aims, progress & the future of paediatric dysphagia practice. Encouraging progress but still much to do @essd-dysphagia.bsky.social

💗 During #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, we remember every baby and every family affected by loss.

BAPM’s Lactation and Loss framework supports healthcare professionals to provide compassionate, informed care for parents navigating milk production after loss.

🔗 Learn more: www.bapm.org/resources/la...

So excited to be able to progress this important work in collaboration with inspirational and passionate families, clinicians and researchers 🤩

Optimal Dosage Characteristics of Recasting for Developmental Language Disorder: A Scoping Review Purpose: The purpose of this scoping review was to map and summarize currently available evidence about optimal dosage of recasting for developme...

🆓🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Fan, S., @samueldcalder.bsky.social, Kemp, N., & Holm, A. (2025). Optimal Dosage Characteristics of Recasting for #DevLangDis: A Scoping Review. JSLHR, 1–25. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #slpeeps
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

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!
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