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#SPABA is not on Bluesky, so I am dropping this for the organization!

#SPABACon25 is this Friday - 6.5 ACE CEUs available (3.5 ETH) ( synchronous & asynchronous attendance) and ASHA General Learning CEs available for synchronous attendance.
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A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.

Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Invisible Disability, Visible Damage: The Systemic Failure to Identify Language Disorders
Students with DLD are missed when evaluations overlook language. We need assessments that reflect real academic demands. tatyanaelleseff.com/systemic-fai... #bskySPEECHIES

Orton-Gillingham (OG) Alone Won’t Cut It: What the Research Actually Shows About Helping Struggling Readers tatyanaelleseff.com/og-limitatio...

Selling Out Speech Pathology: How Profit-Driven Programs, Costly Certifications, and Low-Evidence Fads Are Undermining Evidence-Based Practice
tatyanaelleseff.com/selling-out-...

Calling all #SLP and #ABA students and practitioners! Apply for a #SPABA Award in research, application, or dissemination! More information here: www.behavioralspeech.com/spaba-annual... #bridgetheSLPandABAfields

What Kind of Verbal Operant is “Right?” I am not the first person to wonder, “What is the function of asking Right? in the middle of a sustained flow of verbal behavior?” As the internet is abuzz with remarks about the recent surge of

What Kind of Verbal Operant is “Right?” by author Dr. David Palmer
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Join ABAI in Washington, DC for our 51st Annual Convention in May! Here is one of our many invited presentations:

Why I Am a Behavior Analyst and an Advocate for Behavior Analysis (Are You?) with Dr. William H. Ahearn

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Must get busy writing my abstracts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and Blanc’s #NaturalLanguageAcquisition for #ASHA2025

I also think people need to know about the one treatment design study on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and how we haven’t been allowed to read it because of the supervision team gatekeeping it to closed access and not obtainable from the thesis library.

Weirdly controlling of scientific evidence.

Re InformedSLP views on GLP (more supportive than not):

“one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others”

“none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening”.

Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (due UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. COVER PICTURE A street scene showing adults and children on a road, surrounded by trees, with a parked yellow bus nearby. This is a replacement cover picture with green grass instead of yellow grass. COVER TEXT Title: Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs Subtitle: The Roadmap Authors: Caroline Bowen and Pamela Snow with Philippa Brandon Foreword by Heidi Gregory

Colour tweak for Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press. The grass is now green, not yellow! @pipbrandon.bsky.social
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 📙 #EBPRoadmap #parents #teachers

So many great questions at the @coursebeetle.bsky.social event tonight on #GLP #NLA - engaged group recognising the complexity inherent in what is going on both in discourse online and the lack of research.

YouTube video by Center for Inquiry The Latest in Autism Claptrap | Stuart Vyse

Important lecture #FacilitatedCommunication #TheTelepathyTapes @stuartvyse.bsky.social @fcisnotscience.bsky.social "In my opinion ...this young mans rights are being violated..not loved for who he really is, he is instead being turned into a fantasy for his parents." www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhL-...

Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians Purpose: This tutorial will provide speech-language pathologists with practical considerations and pragmatic tools for interpreting and criticall...

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🦋 #bskySPEECHIES ⏬Download "How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians" in #AJSLP kindly made 🆓 by @ashajournals.bsky.social for 2 weeks. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... It'll be 🔓💰locked again soon.

The best critique so far of this extremely problematic podcast!

Tragic that Nobel Laureate Arthur Schawlow (1981 Physics Nobel Prize for co-invention of the laser)was won over by FC for his #autistic son, actively promoted it, appearing in Frontline's The Prisoners of Silence 1994. @fcisnotscience.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @susangerbic.bsky.social

Our protocol for a Meta-Narrative Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing & #NaturalLanguageAcquisition

Registered on PROSPERO
www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...

“What are the features and outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”

Broad inclusion criteria.

Teacher reveals the 'really obvious' reason teens no longer read. It's not just the phones. "Kids who read are just built different."

“Adults have lowered the bar for how much you should read as a teenager so far that the bar cannot be found. There are many educators who have the mindset that you shouldn't teach whole books because kids just won't read them.” www.upworthy.com/teacher-reve...

Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (due UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. COVER PICTURE A street scene showing adults and children on a road, surrounded by trees, with a parked yellow bus nearby.

Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press.

📙 #EBPRoadmap written for #parents #teachers & #youngpeople about #children and YP with additional support needs. 🦋 #bskySpeechies

Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents... Purpose of the Review This systematic review aimed to determine whether interventions related to Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA) are effective for individuals wi...

It’s here 📗 the Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social

Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)

Someone LIVESTREAMED it? Unreal 😵‍💫

Implications of a systematic review into GLP S6E44 Podcast Episode · Speak Up · 28/11/2024 · 43m

We’ve had pleasing indirect feedback on this podcast for explaining the steps of a systematic review - it might help clinicians in other topics do it themselves.

If more clinicians knew how/why, we may see stronger implementation of research-backed therapy.

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Thankyou Nat - and Heidi Stieglitz-Ham who stood this amazing video —- we had no idea who was listening or that this was what was set up 🫨#Asha2024 @katharinebeals.bsky.social #GestaltLanguageProcessing