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.

🧵🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. #Brava @carorowland.bsky.social et al. See that, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!

Delighted to be working with @uofglasgowsldo.bsky.social - taking the resource we developed for #cancerscreening research & turning it into a practical tool for practitioners. We will work with 10 people supporting screening with people with #learningdisability . Looking forward to their feedback

What an absolute treat to have @maggiebeer and @jadecartwright.bsky.social talking about the culture of care and meals in aged care here at our annual @speechpathologyaustralia conference #slps #speechies

💭 🤔 @katharinebeals.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social www.unicef.org/child-rights... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps #UDHR

Ahoy! Want to learn more about blinded outcome assessment through history? Read my essay at www.jameslindlibrary.org/essays-essay... #DoubleBlind #EBHC #EBM #RCT #FairTests

Are you an AAC user/comm partner? The AAC Oral History project needs you!🫵 A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC! Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz

If you're disabled, you are more likely to read books by able bodied writers that are inspiration p0rn or else detail how your life is ruined by disability, than books by actually disabled writers, as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social wrote in Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Please spend 10 minutes helping this honours student project

My 9yo, penguin-loving daughter helped with this one.

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

Did anyone attend the UK and Ireland Facebook group meeting last night about our #GLP #GestaltLanguageProcessing webinar for Irish Association of SLTs next Monday morning? How many were there strategising/freaking out? Over 200 registered for our talk!! There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA

“After this presentation, I feel more confident caring for #autistic patients”: The impact of neurodivergent doctors educating hospital staff about #neurodiversity. #autism Thanks @jodeeslt.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/... #medicaleducation, #healthcareimprovement, #healthequity

Here is a sequence of my friend the great blue heron (who I still need to name) preparing their trout for consumption. I crossed-checked a scar on its beak near its eye with a picture from two weeks ago and it matched. This heron is not scared of humans and fishes with me standing 15-feet away.

A great blue heron perches on the roots of a tree fallen over into the pond at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

does anyone know how to make money as a respected writer and designer who has published multiple books and had stuff shown in festivals around the world and given keynote talks and things of that nature. my mom is retiring this year with basically no savings and i want to be able to help support her

#ResearchTuesday! #JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. at.asha.org/Ak @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Researchers examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to SLP undergraduate students using a high-cost, ready-made endoscopy training model versus a low-cost, 3D-printed model.

Really lovely to be asked to share about all I’ve learnt from the literature, fab SLTs in my survey and some amazing family careers & children. 👇🏼👇🏽

And what about empty (not saying false, but potentially) claims about research having been conducted on an intervention - with no evidence provided for this - and people then implementing the intervention at $$$ on the basis of those claims? I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

Adele’s excellent and truly disturbing Four Corners story on childcare on Monday night has sparked a NSW inquiry. In August, Four Corners will have been holding truth to power for 64 years. We are grateful for your support. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

What is the latest evidence on #GLPNLA #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition in autism with minimally or non-speaking children or adults? If it works, why are there no papers months after our review? Do you know of any studies? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are very excited to be launching a network for UK professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis forms.gle/4Z8HvhR7t1zg...

59 of my articles being used to train Meta’s AI … another impact metric if it means people asking AI questions get research-based answers. (59 from one search of my full name, not a comprehensive search). #WhyWeWrite

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

Memorable ALFREDS. Alfred Adler, Alfred Binet, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred (A. E.) Houseman, Alfred Kinsey, Alfred Lord Douglas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Noyes, Alfred the Great, Alfred Weber, and Tropical Cyclone Alfred 2025.

💰🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Dinello, A & Gladfelter, A. 2025 Intervention Techniques Targeting #Echolalia: A Scoping Review. AJSLP. doi.org/10.1044/2025... Of possible interest to #NaturalLanguageAcquisition enthusiasts & #GestaltLanguageProcessing believers. #autism 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #GLP #NLA

Marge Blanc’s “industry conspiracy” fear mongering on a daily basis … wonder why a FB group she admins was pulled down … (the one I am in) lol - could it be that it is stoking fear or did the industry do something??!!!

Examples of the scare campaign of #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition devotees: 1. That I am in league with ABA (conspiracy) 2. That I will say GLPs do not exist (scare). Scare campaigns are a hallmark of cults (see #7), stop relying on fear www.cookman.edu/crl/cult-rel...

Very excited to see this week’s #SpeakUpPod ep🎙️ @tlpslt.bsky.social @arlenemccurtin.bsky.social 👏 👉 bit.ly/3Flku3E

Sold a Story has a new mini-series. We found a high-poverty school district where nearly every kid can read well. They’ve been teaching the same way for 25 years. But a new law, inspired by our reporting, put that at risk. All three podcast episodes are out now.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #Pseudoscience harms and kills. Tragically this little boy with #ADHD was killed. Just because people with opinions and no research say something works doesn’t mean does and could mean it is avoiding scrutiny on how it doesn’t work and is harmful.

Our systematic review of #Spellers method #Spelling2Communicate #RapidPromptingMethod #RPM #Spelling #S2C has kicked off - with our first team meeting of some of our interprofessional inclusive authorship team! First step (you know this) is publication of a protocol for the review. Stay tuned!

Wow - amazingly anonymous positive positive feedback so far to our @coursebeetle.bsky.social workshop on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition Only a few people objecting to our view that clinicians should ask themselves if it is like a cult. It’s a reflective question.

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.

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Looking forward to delivering a few difficult messages about #GestaltLanguageProcessing and particularly the results of our review of #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (described by Marge Blanc) tonight for the UK audience - almost 200 people registered so should be VERY interesting to hear their views.

Oh! NICE replacement for overegging when it doesn't quite fit! #inkhornism 😎🙃

Ethically approved Opt Out Statement Do you publish social media posts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition? From 10 Mar-10Apr we are analysing the content (no identifying details) of YouTube & Insta posts. No posts (images, vids) are collected, stored or included in reports.

Someone is actually playing the bagpipes in my little sleepy suburb (usually sounds of sport, cars, and birds).

youtube.com/playlist?lis... @katharinebeals.bsky.social Restraint. Restrictive practice. High profile SLPs are supporting #Spellers method. Marge Blanc text promotes it. Alison Battye text promotes it. Genuine Q - why do #GLP #NLA writers promote #FC and #S2C? - Is it as NLA is ineffective?

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/g... in which Ali Battye re-hashes the false story of there being longitudinal research and presents factually incorrect information about the criteria for our systematic review. Disinfo = they have nothing better to present in support of #GestaltLanguageProcessing

It’s funny how people who believe in telepathy suddenly want to go all evidence-informed to find out everything Ky Dickens has to say and check out what that means for telepathy (both, as FC entwines them in the Telepathy Tapes) before criticising it on the basis of decades of evidence against FC.

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Why do the most passionate teachers of #GestaltLanguageProcessing keep simply reciting the teachings of the leader (Blanc) - if they have positive clinical stories of their own about language progress why don’t they write up the data in case reports with independent measures? Not even research.

🇬🇧 coursebeetle.co.uk/courses/gest... 🖥️ ONLINE via @coursebeetle.bsky.social. Hear @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social March 10, 9-10:30 UK ⌚ #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisiton Nominal registration fee. For all professionals working with children with #Autism and/or #SLCN 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Confirmation bias is a 💥POWERFUL thing. Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. #GestaltLanguageProcessing #GLP #NaturalLanguageAcquisition #NLA

When asked "What is the evidence of effectiveness of #NaturalLanguageAcquisition -based intervention for #GestaltLanguageProcessors?” Chat GPT replied ... @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @drjuliadray.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social Happy Friday 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES! #GLPNLA

It’s saying something. It’s saying that publishing the evidence in enough places is perhaps seeping into the language models. Wonder if the devotees of #GLP #NLA will listen to *all* of the Chatgpt outputs or only the ones that confirm what they already think?