Good news! The @misltoessd.bsky.social team have published a Core Outcome Set for children with #SSD attending Speech and Language Therapy in the UK (and hopefully beyond).

A huge thank you to the UK Expert Delphi Panel for your contribution to this work and our publication 💚 (you know who you are -too many to list in a few characters here 🤷🏼‍♀️)

Very happy to share a link to the latest @misltoessd.bsky.social publication with @samburrslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social The MISLToe_SSD Core Outcome Set (COS) for UK SLT Routine Data Collection onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I just signed the petition calling on the government to end the Cleft Dental Crisis. Can you sign too? #CleftDentalCrisis you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Early Career Researchers Group in Cleft scoping review of speech outcomes for people born with BCLP - presented at the International Cleft Congress, Kyoto. Literature lacking in large, robust outcome studies for this small but significant group. @newcastleuni.bsky.social

And we’re off! 15th International Cleft Congress in Kyoto. Beautiful surroundings.

It's almost the end of #DLDday and so here's my thread about Developmental Language Disorder. If you don't know about DLD then this is for you. If you know about DLD please share so more people learn about this common but widely unknown condition.

You can’t see DLD - but it’s there. 2 in every class of 30 have DLD, a hidden condition that makes understanding and using language harder. This #DLDAwarenessDay, let’s raise our voices for children with DLD. Learn more about DLD: tinyurl.com/3rssjc8h #YouCantSeeDLD #DLDawareness

1 in 14 people are affected with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)a very common but little known condition, Save the date for the international DLD Day on 17th Oct this years theme is You can't see DLD. Amelia a young ambassador for Afasic will be doing her bit to make people aware about DLD

As speech and language specialists, we know the impact DLD can have when left undiagnosed. A must-read from The Independent here: tinyurl.com/ym4rfjtn.

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! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article from my PhD findings. Children aged 5-8 with CLP had lower visual and auditory attention skills compared with norms and these skills were correlated with language outcomes. Available open access @drhelenslt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

And today we have Dr Jo Baker 😀. Thank you to @frickesilke.bsky.social and Vic Knowland for being rigorous and friendly examiners. Congratulations Dr Jo! @cristina-mckean.bsky.social @stephvanee-slt.bsky.social (my fellow supervisors)

Come and join our MISLToe_SSD team! Great opportunity for post doc in SLT, linguistics or psychology. www.nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curr...

@nesltresearch.bsky.social @stephvanee-slt.bsky.social & Helen Wood tell us about an important research step: replicating an exiting study with an extended population. Speech and language disorder in children with CL+/-P is way more complex than we first imagined.

@nesltresearch.bsky.social symposium 2025 The brilliant Anna Burhouse from Northumbria Healthcare NHS FT on QI stressing the importance of teams (not the online space🙄) and people working together

@nesltresearch.bsky.social Anna Burhouse telling us about closing the research-practice gap in the PreCePT project for premature neonates in SW England. Lots of behaviour change and implementation science going on.

@nesltresearch.bsky.social Researching our practice with evaluation of new initiatives in speech & language therapy for children. Lots of mixed methods embedded in practice through QI, objective and rigorous. Using SLT students on placement from @nclslt to support projects. Excellent practice

@nesltresearch.bsky.social Johanna Butler PhD study into practice. Presenting scoping review of literature for adult-child interactions (not parent-child) and ways of data gathering. Rigorously applied methodology

The brilliant @drlisa-ahp.bsky.social keynote @nesltresearch.bsky.social talking to us about how we can involve Multidisciplinary Teams in our research. Dr Lisa is the embodiment of the MDT as a consultant AHP at Newcastle Hospitals NHS FT

@bristol-sltru.bsky.social are looking to hire a Senior Research Associate (Qualitative) to the @misltoessd.bsky.social study team. Its a Band 7 role for 18 months. If you are interested, have a look, and maybe drop us a line to have a chat!! www.nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curr...

Great to see the link between language and mental health considered on the BBC - and amazing of Siouxsie to share her experiences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We have video guides for mental health practitioners about language problems and mental health - see below!

💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Abdelwahab Floccia Forbes Alsiddiqi Al-Shdifat @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Odeh Trebacz Khattab 2025 Adaptation & Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Devel Inventories for Chn 8-30 & 30-48 Months in 🇪🇬EG 🇯🇴JO & 🇵🇸PS. JSLHR doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

The most clicked-on article from the May @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter was an RCT comparing the effectiveness of 2 preschool language interventions (Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language Scheme) bit.ly/3Tt4b8C It's open access! #SLPeeps #SLP2B #SLT #bskySPEECHIES

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! If you work in the North East of England come along to our hub meeting and research symposium to catch up on quality improvement and research activities in our region. You can view accepted abstracts here: lnkd.in/dGtvTXMK And register using this form: lnkd.in/d3tCr-Ac

Looking for Australian and New Zealand parents of children with a #CleftPalate to participate in interview research about their experiences of speech pathology. sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We would love you to share this advert far and wide - such an exciting project to be involved with - and a great team! @edldproject.bsky.social #DevLangDis

Registration for the North East SLT symposium closes on 22nd June. Sign up here for a full day of talks for just £5! forms.office.com/e/Px4BSiV3d1 @nesltresearch.bsky.social

Click here for full leaflet www.rcslt.org/wp-content/u...

It’s Cleft Lip and Palate Awareness week. Cleft can affect how a child learns to speak. Early detection and the dedicated work of a MDT alongside family is needed to help children reach their potential. This leaflet was developed to help spread awareness.

Great to be in Newcastle for the annual Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Conference #cfsgbi2025😀 A fantastic talk from @stephvanee-slt.bsky.social 'Exploring sleep and language outcomes in children with cleft lip/palate using Cleft Collective data'. @yvonnewren.bsky.social

We are now recruiting study participants in Salisbury and surrounding areas! If you are a young adult aged 18-23 years and were born with a cleft, we want to hear from you. Register your interest here: www.bristol.ac.uk/cleft18-23-get-involved and help us shape the future of cleft care in the UK.

Come work with us @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 👇

@nesltresearch.bsky.social Calling all SLTs in the North East of England save the date for our next symposium on July 3rd here in Newcastle.

If you are a young adult aged 18-23 years and were born with a cleft, we want to hear from you. Head to the link in bio to register your interest and help us shape the future of cleft care in the UK. We are now recruiting study participants in Oxford and surrounding areas! #cleft #cleftresearch

Advanced Transcription Skills - 27th March 📆 with Dr Jill Titterington An in-depth review of phonetic transcription skills: ✅ symbols from IPA - single sound, single word and connected speech levels ✅ narrow + broad transcription & the vowel system using the quadrilateral system #CPD #SLT

I currently have two fully-funded PhD opportunities in my lab - both providing a chance to work on the incredible LEAF data set that we have been collecting the last couple of years (220 children followed longitudinally from 10-30 months on measures of attention and early EF). Please share!

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

Come and join my growing team! An exciting opportunity to help us to evaluate the ELIM-I. Please repost @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social

Come and join us in July to find out what research is happening in the northeast across all SLT specialisms

So, 8 weeks today I will the London Landmarks Half Marathon to raise awareness and money for the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA) who do such amazing work to support people affected by cleft. Please spare a pound or two to help me along! www.justgiving.com/page/s-van-e...

❤️ When we published the briefing, it was supported by 46 organisations. It is now being supported by 48. We are massively grateful to them for their support - there's still time for more! 📢 Mikey brilliantly highlights why the #InvestInSLT debate matters. 4/

@stephvanee-slt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Celebrating our new open access paper. Time to get reading folks! Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties doi.org/10.1111/1460...

First paper from PhD published today…children with cleft lip/palate were at higher risk of language difficulties if they had phonological errors with or without cleft speech characteristics (CSCs). CSCs alone were not an indicator of lower language skills. Read more here dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...

Further international reporting on the withdrawal of more than 60 German universities and institutes from the platform X. Unmanipulated freedom of speech and democratic values thrive beyond X, in spaces free from the extreme influence of a billionaire autocrat. #eXit #SciXit #NoMoreInteraction

I mean, that's outstanding.

When young children have problems pronouncing words accurately, should we be worried? Our new meta-analysis open access in @ashajournals.bsky.social focuses on that pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

How do families with kids with #cleft feel about a pilot #RCT comparing #ultrasound and standard care? TLDR- they love the interventions, they don't mind the extra assessments or the randomisation...but travelling to the hospital is a major burden. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking for a PhD on #SSD in #Cleft? ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/yvonne...