www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re... Anyone else going? Starts at 1.30 in Palmer, David Crystal is speaking at 4.30

Thank you @foundationyearnet.bsky.social for the chance to speak at the annual conference about our fantastic health foundation courses at @citystgeorges.bsky.social It was a fantastic conference and so great to share good foundation year practice and reflect on future ideas

Developmental language disorder (DLD) refers to persistent difficulties in learning & using language. DLD is not well known in many parts of the world, including Singapore. Let's join hands to raise awareness and advocate for people with DLD on Oct 17, 2025 international DLD day #devlangdis #DLDday

If you are going to any 4 year olds birthday parties then take this flyer along. As well as contributing to an understanding of the impact of covid on child development, participants get to keep the tablet. UK only. #EarlyYears @bicycle-study.bsky.social

Thanks so much to @helenhayes.bsky.social for highlighting our #ReadingRights campaign with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social in the House of Commons yesterday.

🆓🔓 @lucyrodgerssalt.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social... @rosherman.bsky.social 2025 Co-design to consensus: Identifying the core elements of a novel intervention for pre-school chn with #childspeechdis + #devlangdis doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps

🆓🔓 @lucyrodgerssalt.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social ... @rosherman.bsky.social 2024 Shared characteristics of interventions for oral vocab & speech comprehensibility in p/schoolers w co-occurring #devlangdis & #childspeechdis doi.org/10.1136/bmjo... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies

30% book discount code below, also available online @speechandlanguk.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social @sallymorganslt.bsky.social @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @louiseok.bsky.social @senandunne.bsky.social @speechbite.bsky.social @ashajournals.bsky.social

@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies

#RefugeeWeek2025 reminds us of the importance of compassion, understanding, and action. 👉 This insightful blog from @researchip.bsky.social explores trauma-informed and rights-based approaches for those working with people from war-affected areas. 📖 Read it here: lnkd.in/eJNfgWTd

Tackling social challenges needs evidence-led research. In our 2024 annual report discover how the Foundation supported our expert centres @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social & UK grant-holders with a charitable spend of £28.4m. ow.ly/E9NS50WaI3J

Excited to be starting what I hope is the first of more boosting of good books in a barren land of book coverage by msm. First up, 5 questions with British-Jamaican deaf poet Raymond Antrobus. His memoir is out next month. Pre-order or library queue it up! buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

Journal editors: this is great! scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/ You can automate simple tasks like "osf-check: List all OSF links and whether they are open, closed, or do not exist" as SO many papers claim to be preregistered but do not provide the preregistration

Fidan Meikle, author of My Name is Samim shares the importance of reading about other children’s lives. Thank you @booktrust.org.uk! Such an important book to share with children this #RefugeeWeek. www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi...

Interesting to see Enid Blyton is still so popular!

Last summer, educators in 50 school settings around the UK asked children aged 4-10 to name their favourite book. Here are the results of this informal survey. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/chi... #teachertwitter #kidlit

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

Join the E-DLD community by sharing your work in easy-to-understand summaries! Let’s make research more accessible to everyone. Templates and guidelines are available to get you started. 🔗 Visit our website: www.edldcommunity.org 📄 Access the summary guidelines: www.edldcommunity.org/guidelines

"Sleep is not a luxury. It is your most powerful tool for appetite control, energy regulation and long-term health." theconversation.com/sleep-loss-r... @us.theconversation.com

The biggest change in reproductive rights in Britain in half a century has just passed the Commons. MPs have voted 379-137 to decriminalise abortion, preventing women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks.

Agent-Based Conversational Dialogue (ABCD) is a novel method for simulating goal-driven natural spoken dialogues between two conversational artificial intelligence agents—AI clinician and AI patient, which vocally mimics aphasic errors. #SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES #aphasia

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'Evening in London' (2024) by Marek Krumpár marekkrumpar.com

Save the date: SIG for SIGN webinar on November 4th, 2025, 14.00-16.30h CET: "Assessing integrated skills: from understanding a (pre-recorded) signed text to signed productions". Registration is already available: eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Call for participation Hey! Are you using sign language assessments in your professional life? Please participate in the survey! The survey is available in International Sign and English. Please share or forward the link to your network. dsgs.hfh.ch/index.php/63...

How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires? @empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...

New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations. academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6

What a great paper. I miss Twitter (or what it once was), and @jmhenner.bsky.social in it. Thanks to @deafkilljoy.bsky.social and Rachael Gabriel for writing this. Make sure to check the other papers in the special issue in honour of Jon Henner. academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...

I just heard there will be at least 130 deaf participants at the next ICED conference in Rome. I went to two before, and I think there were never that many.

Our data collection is complete! Here's another video explaining the 2nd and 3rd stages. Now to analyse the data and share our findings! @dcal-ucl.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @drfionakyle.bsky.social @rosherman.bsky.social youtu.be/y_ceI4kzjW0?... (English) youtu.be/Jiq3FuEw838?... (BSL)

This #DeafAwarenessWeek, we're proud to spotlight our work with Doncaster & District Deaf Society. We're listening to the voices of the Deaf community, sharing their voices through Vital Signs and providing funding for a more welcoming centre. 👉 bit.ly/44z0lQa #ItsAGivingThing #SYCF #DeafAwareness

Did you know that under the Equality Act 2010, UK employers are mandated to make 'reasonable adjustments' for employees with disabilities, including those who are Deaf or have hearing loss? ​ rnid.org.uk/information-... #WorkplaceInclusion #DeafAwareness #EqualityAct #AccessToWor

My occasional reminder to myself that hearing breaks ARE self-care #DeafAwareness

Deaf Awareness Week in Macclesfield today 🙌💙 #macclesfield #deafawareness

New #aphasia and internet search paper from authors @hcid.city and @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social and beyond. openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34... 🔎 #Search 🔡 #Aphasia ✅️ #A11y

Very proud to be co-author on one of the @IJLCD editorial prize runner up papers with @lydiadavis.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @lucydipper all of @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social #blueskyspeechies #slpeeps onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social is hosting a FREE hybrid impact event for researchers & clinicians to learn ab exciting new developments in adults & paediatrics. 👉 SAVE THE DATE - 20th June 2025! Final programme to be shared soon but sign-up early: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Welcome to the Department of Language & Communication Science @citystgeorges.bsky.social Meet all our staff on Blue Sky through accessing our starter pack below 👇 go.bsky.app/AaLouS

Hi everyone, Our project involves collecting data in 3 stages. Please watch one of these videos for details about stage 1: youtu.be/-VHNUTR1Im0?... (English) youtu.be/4lWgmJEfgCE?... (BSL) youtu.be/ZVaLpxSBW80?... (Sylheti) Stages 2 and 3 are also nearly complete so stay tuned!

I gave an overview of the @ladderlab.bsky.social Preschool Language & Literacy study - a 3 year longitudinal study following 122 deaf and 113 hearing children from preschool to the end of year 2. This is a 4-wave multiwave study ending in 2026 - @rosherman.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social

Prof @rosherman.bsky.social presented preschool spoken language outcomes in inclusive sample of deaf children: vocab & grammar, interesting discussion about morphology knowledge & how to improve it. Early exposure to an accessible language is critical @ladderlab.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social

We presented our new findings about home literacy environments in #deaf children & emergent literacy: lots of reading activities happening! Child interest was critical for deaf children's emergent literacy - how do we increase child interest in reading? @rosherman.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social

Dr Katie Mason presented our @ladderlab.bsky.social research on the validity of using the #GAPS to screen for grammatical difficulties in preschool #deaf children using spoken language - high sensitivity/specificity in preschool & at the end of reception @rosherman.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social

Our latest @ladderlab.bsky.social longitudinal study at @dcal-ucl.bsky.social - Understanding Reading Success, and how it links to our Preschool study. 135 deaf and 220 hearing 8-9 yr olds being followed for 2 yrs with @rosherman.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social KateRowley KatieMason

An early morning start for the @ladderlab.bsky.social team to come back to the ElizabethFoundatio and see our superstar deaf children taking part in our research studies at @dcal-ucl.bsky.social - we can't wait to see their progress! @rosherman.bsky.social #YoungResearchers #ScientistsInTheMaking

The Link Primary from Speech & Language Link has officially gone to print! This will be Issue 32, with articles ranging from tips on how to support selective mutism to our regular Ask a Therapist feature. This edition will be packed with useful information that helps you to support pupils with SLCN!

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

A new journal that publishes re-analysis/evaluation of published findings. A really interesting development. scipost.org/JRobustRep/a... @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social