A step forward for Developmental Language Disorder #DLDday

Check out our new reports for teachers, schools, specialists & policymakers supporting children with #SEND in mainstream schools. Our #SLCN report covers: ✏️ Early identification ✏️ Classroom strategies & interventions ✏️ Collaboration with families & specialists #DevLangDis

📢 Calling UK parents of children with dyslexia We are conducting a research study to understand how children with dyslexia in UK primary schools experience learning, assessment, and support. 🔗 Learn more or sign up: tinyurl.com/ckvv5hsf #Dyslexia

Excited to share our new paper, where we propose that inefficient anticipatory mechanisms may represent a common underlying thread linking the spoken language, reading, and handwriting difficulties associated with dyslexia. Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are you an educator interested in learning more about supporting children with developmental language disorder? Join the next Nasen Twilight Talks on May 8th, with @juhaynat.bsky.social. Book your place now! #DLD

Join us at the London International Conference on Inclusive Education, on July 28-30 2025! Engage in interdisciplinary discussions on #InclusiveEducation with more than 200 academics from across the world. Grab your early bird ticket now: www.licie.co.uk @ioe.bsky.social

Hi everyone, newbie here! 👋 I am a trainee Speech and Language Therapy student at Birmingham City Uni on the Masters pathway - currently in my final year 😆 Please feel free to signpost me to profiles that I can follow to build my connections. Any tips would also be greatly appreciated! 😊

We need your help! We are looking for any professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder. Our networks relate to children, so please help get our survey about setting up a UK wide network to those who work with adults with #DevLangDis forms.gle/n2v5T7VK2mDH...

Abraz Hussein, an adult with DLD tells his story. He got through primary without much support, but at start of secondary was permanently excluded. Then went to PRU before getting diagnosed and going to a special school for speech and language. Support makes all the difference! #NAPLIC25 #DevLangDis

Join us on 15 April for a seminar by Professor Elinor Saiegh-Haddad on "Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications", hosted by OE's Centre for Language, Literacy, Numeracy Online or in person (London) www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

I've joined Blue Sky to raise awareness about developmental language disorder (DLD) in adults. It so often gets left out of discussions about neurodivergence. I'll be posting more on this soon. #DevLangDis #RADLD #NAPLIC #AFASIC #inclusion #neurodiversity #neurodiversityatwork

There is still time to submit your abstract for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education! 🙌 Due to overwhelming demand, the call for papers has been reopened from March 3rd to 12th only. Join us and submit your abstract now! @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social www.licie.co.uk

📣 Calling on #SLPs 👈 We want to hear from #SLPs #SLTs about what you want from digital evidence tools to help you find research evidence easily. You're invited to participate in focus groups or an interview, register your interest here bit.ly/3D4QI2s #bskySPEECHIES @leannetogher.bsky.social

Wondering how best to support pupils with #SEND in your setting? @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social's suite of online short courses provides self-paced learning to help you develop quality #InclusivePractice. Find out more and book here!

What a magical night at St Paul’s Cathedral ✨

Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

If the neurodivergence taskforce wants to make schools better for neurodivergent children, why aren’t the 1 million children with Developmental Language Disorder part of the conversation?😣 This is totally unacceptable! Don't you agree, Department for Education? #TheForgottenMillion

Join us to hear from over 200 speakers from 4 continents. Book your ticket now for the London International conference on #InclusiveEducation! @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social

Since 2018, we have organized and supported events around the world to let more people know about developmental language disorder (DLD). This year's DLD day is on Oct 17. To prepare for it, we will restructure our website radld.org. Let us know how to make it more useful for you!

🇬🇧 UK SLTs – LAST CHANCE! 📢 Share your experiences in supporting children’s reading, writing, and spelling to help shape clearer guidelines on UK SLTs' role in supporting children's written language skills. It only takes 10 minutes! tinyurl.com/64cfcewv

Here this morning live posting of the #IJLCDwinterLecture by @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social & @cristina-mckean.bsky.social. What makes language interventions work - exploring the active ingredients #DevLangDis

Join our free online event at 5pm on 12 Feb to learn how to become a dyslexia specialist and gain a Master’s degree from the world’s #1 university for Education! Sign up:  tinyurl.com/UCLdyslexia ✅ Achieve AMBDA, APC & ATS/APS qualifications ✅ In-person & online learning

Our national survey with in-service UK SLTs is showing similar findings.. this highlights the importance of establishing guidelines on the role of SLTs in supporting children’s written language skills

We hosted a workshop in Amman brining together teachers, teacher trainers, the Jordanian ministry of education, and our partners Queen Rania Foundation. We discussed our research findings and received very valuable feedback and suggestions for our work on oral language development in Jordan 🇯🇴

Spoken language and #oracy have never been more important. In this era of great change 'Our students need to be more human than ever before.' Loved this point by @creativehigg.bsky.social at today's Finding My Voice webinar.

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📍🇯🇴 In Jordan this week, visiting schools from our project on promoting children’s oral language development. We learned a lot about the language environments and available resources in these schools, some of which are beginning to embed inclusive education to support children with special needs

Sunset over the Barbican 🌇

Caregivers of toddlers born in 2022! We need your help collecting new information on early language behaviour - please complete out survey below 🙏🏻 **Previously the survey closed for non-English folk, but now everyone can respond - please try again!** cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A comment at work today has prompted me to send this reminder: The evidence does *not* support the idea that screen-time universally causes children harm. Over-simplifying the complex reality of childhood *does*. This letter is 8 years old but still very true: www.theguardian.com/science/head...

** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

If you are a researcher/academic who teaches about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), in undergraduate/postgraduate degree courses please see the survey linked here:

📢CALLING UK #SLTs📢 Research shows that SLTs often feel unprepared to support written language difficulties. Help inform the development of guidelines on the role of UK SLTs in supporting children with literacy difficulties by sharing your experiences tinyurl.com/64cfcewv

Excited to be co-leading the language development module this term with my brilliant colleague Dr Joanna Kolak! We had our first session today and got to know our students who come from the UK, USA, China, Hong Kong, Greece, and Mongolia ! Looking forward to teaching and learning from them 😊

Exciting new postdoc job opportunity working with the National Autistic Taskforce, Yo Dunn, @suereviews.bsky.social, David Orr and myself. Two-year NIHR-funded project to improve residential and supported living services for autistic adults. Pls share. DM for info. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI718/r...

Excellent article for anyone interested in learning more about dyslexia. And whist you're at it, give the inspirational @damsoned.bsky.social a follow.

The International School on #Psycholinguistics, #Neurolinguistics and #Clinical #Linguistics (University of Novi Sad, Serbia April 7-11, 2025) is still receiving applications (deadline: Jan 15). Please check it out & spread the word 🐦🐦 #SLPeeps! www.ff.uns.ac.rs/sr/studijski...

1/4 This new study sheds light on the gap between research and practice and shows that there is a misalignment between the definitions of #DevLangDis & #Dyslexia used in research vs by school-based professionals

First day back to work ! Had a very busy day delivering two workshops to over 50 teachers from 10 schools across South London. The focus of the workshop was on SLCN and discussed strategies and resources necessary for creating inclusive,communication-supporting classrooms. @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social

Reading is not just about having a love of books, nor just being able to accurately lift words off the page. It's a product of both. The simple view of reading, by Gough & Tunmer (1986) is something all teachers should be aware of. Professional learning for teachers www.impact.wales

Looking for an Arabic-speaking UCL student to volunteer to assist with a research project on Arabic language development. For more details, contact me at [email protected] or your can check the AD on here: moodle.ucl.ac.uk/mod/assign/vie…

“I would say that when you’re talking about SEND, language is nearly always going to be a part of that, so language should be seen as a central aspect of provision for children with special educational needs, too.” Prof. Charles Hulme.

My PhD student Hannah is looking for adults with #DevLangDis and #autistic adults for an interview about reading experiences. Do get in touch with her!

I came across this gem yesterday on evidence for recasting as a method for modelling grammar pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Creating Accessible Research for the #DevLangDis Community A lot of research goes to waste 🗑️ This is partly because researchers rarely share results with the non-scientific community. Even when findings are shared, people with communication disorders find it hard to understand the research. 1/3

📢We are looking for #UK #SLTs who work with school-age children and would like to hear about your experiences in supporting children with literacy difficulties! It only takes 10 mins to complete our survey: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #dyslexia #SLCN

A few years ago I realised that only a few men were applying for RA jobs in my lab. I removed "experience working with children" from the criteria and that changed overnight. Teenage boys don't get to do work experience with kids, so they can "seem" less qualified. But some of my best RAs are men.

The Christmas lights trail at Blenheim Palace is magical 🎄✨