@womensartbluesky.bsky.social Still thrilled about me new book published yesterday. Frida Kahlo's quotes and pictures personal connection to her life & work. September Publishing says it's already stocked:UK; Scandinavia;Spain; Australia; New Zealand; Germany;France;Romania;Slovakia & S Africa❤️‍🔥

My book is out today!"Wings to Fly on Endurance and Creativity" in the words and pictures of #FridaKahlo - commissioned by September Publishing -compiled, edited, introduced by me. Stocked in the UK Scandinavia;France;Spain;Germany;Italy;Romania; Slovakia;;South Africa;Australia & New Zealand asap

Funny how a child of about six, who doesn't know you, screeching to a halt on his bike right near you, and smiling at you broadly from under his peaked cap can lift your whole day #justhappened

New book for word nerds everywhere. Anatoly Liberman reviews Unabridged by Stefan Fatsis blog.oup.com/2026/04/unab...

Now available internationally as an ebook for Kindle from Amazon!! @carolinebowen.bsky.social ‬@pamelasnow.bsky.social #bskySPEECHIES #teachers #families & #youngpeople #SLT www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=bowen+ev...

Wonderful time gathering plants for The Dusk Gardener, picked this morning by two seven year olds I help with on Fridays - a bit of biodynamic nutritious heaven - both the food and blossoms and being with them...

How was World Book Day? Any favourite costumes or books?! Here's a brilliant staircase & graffiti at the schl where I ran Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling part1-2day training for the Children's Integrated Speech & Language Therapy Service for Hackney and the City which was a very vivacious day!

Excited about new start with #SaLTBkGrp this week Ch1 8-9.15pm GMT online-let me know if you'd like to join friendly, listening convo: www.routledge.com/Neurodiversi...

"Behavioral research has shown deeper semantic encoding of text frm paper than frm screen...findings provide evidence of differncs in brain responses to texts presented in print& digital media, includg deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts."Pub: May 22, 2024 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

WHO DOESN'T 😍LOVE😍 AN INTERESTING QUESTIONNAIRE? Mohammad Hossein Ghane PhD (given name: Ghane) researcher in applied #linguistics at Yazd University in 🇮🇷Iran seeks native English speakers for an online survey. (survey.porsline.ir/s/vUsWyK8P) www.researchgate.net/profile/Moha... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

SO interesting - now we need research (anybody know of any?) where we measure how iconic gesture supports intonation-which supports comprehensn and recall of story/vocab. I observe 100's times a yr running trainings how gestures linked to spkn concepts help the voice to convey meaning & experience.

Touchd to be invitd to the Memorial Wednesday night for the wife of #SirMarkRylance: composer & playwright #ClaireVanKampen I've never wept so much at a performance. Exquisite portrayal of power of #music & #song thro CVK's wit & wisdom, MK's inner child, #MelodyGrove's grace & #IestynDavies voice!👏

Incredible response to Scoliosis Support & Research Film. So many messages from #scoliosis warriors feeling recognised & encouraged by the documentary. And one who didn't, whom we are rallying around ♥️🤞 Very pleased & amazed to have been involved www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZI...

A sign of something not working or working that I get invited back again & again!? Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling back at Blossom House Schl www.blossomhouseschool.co.uk 3rd time (intro day),then 4th time back to Athens, Greece, to train Speech Pathologists in the Spring 2026 (2 days: Part 1)

Excitedly preparing to train 50 Attention Autism Practitioners day after tmw #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #InclusiveEducation #autismawareness Gathering my #storytelling tools....only sad to be going away from husband The Dusk Gardener, and lovely SaLT who stays with us Monday nights.

#SaLTBkGrp tonight:"Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training" Grant Blasko, Janice Light, David McNaughton, Bob Williams & Jordyn Zimmerman-Published online: 13 Jun 2025.

Some poignant and celebratory moments in the Q'nA at the launch of Living with Scoliosis photo courtesy of Amelie scoliosis.with.at c/o scoliosis research uk ssr.org.uk #scoliosis #scoliosisawareness #scoliosiswarrior

Amazing to be in this documentary short & to meet the other wonderful participants.c/o Scoliosis Research UK 🤍 I am the oldest, youngest is six.She was dressed like a sparkly angel & said " I wd tell someone [just diagnosed] I have scoliosis too, you're not alone".

Lovely to be called in as a kind of #storytelling ambulance - and great to be able to rearrange day so can be there to run #CPD for #Teachers #Authors #Storytellers #Therapists #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #education #accessibility www.hastingsstoryfest.org.uk/2025-adults :

Feels extraordinary and very moving to be featured in this documentary. Looking forward to meeting the others at the launch on October 28th London #scoliosis #spinalsurgery #couragetogether #wearyourcurve youtu.be/p-0xewRfPNc?...

NEXT #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 6 NOV 25 8-9.15pm GMT Nothing about #AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development & professional training. Grant Blasko,Janice Light, David McNaughton,Bob Williams & Jordyn Zimmerman(2025)41:3, 184-194 doi.org/10.1080/0743...

#SaLTBkGrp yesterday eve loved the respect, warmth, listening betwn us conversing abt respect 4 stammerers experience.The equality betwn us:one in her sixties doing a PhD, one in her 20s entering 3rd yr of SaLT trng-me- retired from work with clients this wk & those still in full tilt employment💓📗

#SaLTBkGrp tonight - new autumn phase : "Understanding the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering Can Improve Stuttering Therapy" Seth E. Tichenor, Caryn Herring, and J. Scott Yaruss Top Lang Disorders Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 57–75 © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

friend to me to old Hastings this eve....

A friend just told me she overheard a boy ask in a DIY shop a few weeks ago:"Do you have a de-humiliator?"🌞💦

Tmw! Invited to run training day & do some storytelling at Ringwood Shelling School, where I lived & worked as a volunteer Carer/ #SaLT for 6 yrs with chn with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities& autism.They taught me how to be a Human B & SaLT. Now: ⬆️ EB oral #storytelling rhythm gesture.

Hey! 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES a survey from #SLP2b @emmamcvean.bsky.social -- click the LinkedIn survey link twice. 🙏PLEASE BOOST> @lisntell.bsky.social @ficontextual.bsky.social @nesltresearch.bsky.social @apinchofsalts.bsky.social @gillianrudd.bsky.social 🌎🌍🌏DO YOU SEEK INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS, EMMA?

Almost had to stop driving last night listening to this riveting radio-deep,tender, funny& so respectful towrds the individual subject & listener. "Oh the Humanity!" as an 11 yr old with cognitive difficulties exclaimd to me once 1/2 thro a spontaneous story he told of love, loss & reconciliation...

Fine group of Speech Pathologists, 1 #OT and a manager #childrenscare who took part in #Lis'nTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling part 1 training, end of May this year. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 #Lis'nTell core practitioner #SaLT @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying me & to fabulous 🇲🇹 hospitality, commitment & experience 👏🏼

Great news! Congratulations to, from July 1st 2025, Distinguished Professor @pamelasnow.bsky.social one of the most compelling, clear and compassionate lecturers and writers I have encountered. pamelasnow.blogspot.com #literacy #education Thank you for your work 🏚️ 📖

Unexpected article abt the essence of Lis'n Tell:live inclusive storytelling by 🇲🇹 #SLP Veronica Montanaro (PhD student Leeds Uni) b4 our recent 🇲🇹 visit. Many thanks to VM🌞 for inviting me to run Part 1 again & to @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying brilliantly🌟 www.taascmalta.com/blog/span-cl...

DAY 1️⃣ #push-upCHALLENGE 3,214 push-ups in 23 days www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... Our 😅sweaty efforts are dedicated to: Students navigating school pressures, feelings of isolation or "difference", and social media anxiety. www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... 💰YOU CAN DONATE!

Training Attention Autism Advanced Practitioner Group this wk: participants frm South Africa, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong. Finding tales frm each culture to practise storytelling eg: iconic gesture/memory & intonation; imagination/seeing what you're saying (or feeling if aphantasic);rhythm 'n role

Back from training #SLP team in Malta🇲🇹 with Lis'n Tell Core Practitioner #SLT Caroline Casula. Loved their expressiveness, engagement, insights. Moved by 'de-institutionalisation' in senior /child care homes & how they see Lis'n Tell part of that. Special Assistance at airports fantastic each way ♿

Next #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 3July 8pm BST is about rdcu.be/epDVP, plus paper by autistic adults abt their GLP related experience (I don't have link yet). Also interesting re GLP history/ backgrnd to the Systematic Rev/ GLP NLA/ #languagedevelopment/ #SLP for #echolalia: thedldproject.com/gestalt-lang...

Re-reading The Future of Neurodiversity. "Neurodivergent Power would place our sights squarely on our collective ability to resist the entire economic system that disables and discriminates against us". @drrobertchapman.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-fu...

🆓 🔓 Alyssa Kuiack and @larchiba.bsky.social #DevLangDis in #PlainEnglish #easyEnglish 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES Kuiack, A. & Archibald, L (2019) Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About. Frontiers for Young Minds. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Finding this so interesting and looking forward to conversation this evening #SaLTBkGrp about: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin...

As decided last time #SaLTBkGrp Thurs Jun 5, 2025 8:00-9.15 PM London NEW Topic: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin... #SaLT #SLP #Disability #conversation #sharedexperience #livedexperience Do let me know if you'd like to join this new phase either by DM or email me via website: www.lisntell.co.uk 🙏🏼📚🫖☕

#SaLTBkGrp moving to 1st Thurs/month 8pm BST Thurs June 5th: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin... Thurs July 3rd: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Systematic Review of Interventions Based on (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence & Cautions for Clinicians & Parents. Interested?-DM me 🌞

On the way up to Edinburgh last Thursday on the train -met an amazing man: a Parental Activist who's supported many families and children in the South East. He's interviewed here: www.buzzsprout.com/2073535/epis...

#SaLTBkGrp tonight -new phase - #AVisionfromtheMargin was amazing, challenging, moving, uplifting. Talking tonight about what to read next....a book? a research paper? Then as usual we'll have a break in August📚

Last Monday contribd to Attention Autism Advnced Trning "Speaking from the Heart"-voice & gesture presentatn skills, Friday ran w'shop for co-worker/carers at Garvald W. Linton💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 garvaldwestlinton.org.uk then w/e I tutord Olympic FreeStyle skier-storytelling for coaching his teenagers beyond fear⛷️

Best Easter film I've ever seen"SingSing"2023 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dX... #rehabilitation thru #ARTS founded by rta-arts.org/blog/celebra... 3% recidivism compard to 60% USA nat. average. This 🎥 helpd Chris Martin thru depressn. Reminds me of seeing Othello in Brixton Prison with SirD Ramsbotham

💰🔐 @ashajournals.bsky.social Among those who feel that vocal fry is normal, there's a belief that [its] use may become pathological under certain conditions, e.g., “excessive” use [This] remains to be tested, and what is considered excessive is unknown. pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Glasses with windscreen wipers & flashing lights are sometimes useful for telling a story #inclusivestorytelling #props #attentiondevelopment #languagedevelopment previous #liveinclusivestorytelling training Part 1 Intensive. Next: 15-16 May 2025 London with Core Practitioner SaLT Siobhan Ray & me

#SaLTBkGrp a deep searching journey into our practice & experience it was with #AVisionFromtheMargin #intersectionality #racism Suggestions coming in for next book.We'll decide soon. #RCSLT April 2025 paper on Learning from the experiences of disabled SLTs in the workplace?or📙👇🏼? Or a research paper?

"Individuals with intellectual disability may have limited narrative skills....findings indicate ⬇️ coherence, syntactic complexity& grammatical sentences" Altman et al 2022 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35428038/ Strengths also cited & ongoing devlpmnt👇🏼Lis'n Tell acknowledges & aims to build on strengths.

Children with developmental language disorder (#DLD) experience probs in lang comprehensn &/or productn. In particular, storytelling/narrative ability is often impaired-this type of discourse involves all domains of language.' www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... A couple of places still available:👇🏼

🎉 to be invitd 3rd time to train #SaLT team in Malta. This yr assistd by SaLT Caroline Casula. I've met FAB friendly engaging Maltese teamwrk. My spinal surgeon 'retired' there & as volunteer-introducd pioneering programme to screen & treat children's scoliosis. Eventually backed by the govrnmnt ❤️ 🇲🇹