"Women should embrace ageing because, at the end of the day, it’s much more beautiful to have a grandmother with white hair who looks like an elderly lady than to have a grandmother who’s bleached, dyed, and […] who looks much older but also really unhappy". ~BB theconversation.com/brigitte-bar...

Speechwoman ends 2025 on a high note with an important article for her Dec Site of the Month. It's about the impacts of #childSPEECHdis on a child's friendships & other relationships. @mhhenry.bsky.social 👏@ashajournals.bsky.social www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?op... #apraxia #dysarthria

🎄 Christmas is when someone sends you a phishing email with a badly cropped William Morris card to click on. 🎄

🆓🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social AJSLP @mhhenry.bsky.social & Tessa Bent say "This study underscores the social impact of SSD by highlighting how both the presence and severity of #childSPEECHdis influence children's social judgments". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

💰🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social "Parents are capable of distinguishing high- from low-quality videos [about #childSPEECHdis] but still overwhelmingly rely on #SLPs for trusted, individualized guidance". 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 🇳🇱 authors illustrate, in @ashajournals.bsky.social JSLHR, the vital contribution of hearing rehabilitation to daily life functioning. #qualityOFlife #audiology #audiologists #d/Deaf #HardofHearing

"In 🖤💛❤️🇦🇺 #Australia, they’ve built so much ☀️ #solar power that the government ( #AusPol) has now decided that 🔌💡electricity will be 🆓 free for all Australians for three hours every afternoon". @albomp.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @theguardian.com @livingonearthradio.bsky.social #environment

Mums of chn with Childhood #Apraxia: “with all the therapies & advocacy…it’s exhausting” Martina Having a child with CAS “takes a hell of a lot of time up as a family” Olivia "With all the travel & stuff how am I going to be employed?” Monica #childSPEECHdis 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES doi.org/10.1080/1754...

🔐💰 Article about the F-words by @helenlong.bsky.social, Jalisa Mayfield, Kristin Szymanek in @ashajournals.bsky.social' @sigperspectives.bsky.social doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🫢 F-words? These: Functioning Fitness Family Friendships Fun Future, and Freedom 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #ICF (@who.int, 2001)

So difficult to find the words to send my dear Jewish friend and colleague birthday and 🕎 Hanukkah wishes today. "Happy" birthday and "happy" Hanukkah don't fit with the solemnity of the day. #Bondi #BondiBeach #BondiAttack #NoWords

🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social Key Stakeholder Views on Educational Support & Academic Progress for Students w/ #DevLangDis. Interviews with 3 🇸🇪🏫students aged 12-16 & their caregivers, teachers, support staff, & SLPs. Research team found it's HUGELY complex! doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Community service announcement: we can diagnose #apraxia before three, and in fact in some cases we can treat or successfully prevent it using Babble Bootcamp from infancy

💰🔐40% of EI SLPs believed CAS can't be diagnosed in under-3s; 52% wouldn’t tell caregivers. Of SLPs who DID diag/treat CAS in <3s, most used caregiver coaching & play. Highly structured, clinician-directed tx was relatively underused despite ➕evidence. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

One more time for the people at the back: ❗Science can’t prove universal negatives ❗It’s wrong to reverse the burden of proof ❗Andrew Wakefield was a dishonest, unethical ❗researcher who falsified data and ❗CONTINUES to spread dangerous #antivax ❗propaganda. theconversation.com/the-united-s...

💰🔐 Familiar names in @ashajournals.bsky.social 🇧🇪 Alighieri, C., & 🇧🇪 D'haeseleer, E. (2025). Changes in #PhonologicalAwareness Following Combined Phonetic-Phonological Intervention in Children with #CleftPalate. JSLHR. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #childSPEECHdis 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #cleftpalate±lip

Woo hoo! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🆓 🔓 @maria-cairney.bsky.social @victorshiramizu.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social 2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #childSPEECHdis #cleftpalate #cleftpalate±lip 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #VisualAnalogScale @tandfresearch.bsky.social

🆓🔓 "Preschool Children with Speech and Language Disorders : Everyday Communication and Speech-Language Pathology Services in 🇸🇪 #Sweden" ~ Lovisa Elm, 2025 (in Svenska, scroll down for English). liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #SLCN #devlangdis #childSPEECHdis 📹 #videoRecordings

🆓🔓 WOW! Food for thought🤔. #childSPEECHdis 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES @katieh-wisc.bsky.social @jprestonslp.bsky.social @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social @lynn-williams.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @csdrnetwork.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @annettefox-boyer.bsky.social

💰🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social The STOP scale is a promising tool for assessing students' & clinicians' ability to detect 🟥 red flags for #pseudoscience. Findings show the need for targeted education to enhance pseudoscience detection by these people. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

🇮🇩 Jumiarti, J., Taruna, R., Phandinata, S. R., & Sadiah, H. (2024). Word-level Speech Intelligibility, PCC and PVC [in] Indonesian Chn Using Preschool Sound Production Test. Journal of Speech Language and Communication Research, 1(1), 39–43. doi.org/10.64600/f72... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis

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

🆓🔓 Neurodiverse-friendly preschools: Aligning inclusive pedagogy and spatial design www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Explainer in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/active-zones... by Fatemeh Aminpour. #autism #adhd #neurodiversity

🧵 1/5 🔐💰In @sigperspectives.bsky.social A 4-week bibliotherapy intervention was developed with accessibility, ease of use, and caregiver involvement in mind. It focused on 4 books: pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.... #childSPEECHdis 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #resilience

🔐💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Margetson, K., & @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social (2025). Multilingual Speech Assessment: Using an #ImpSci Framework to Explore Acceptability of the Speech Assessment of Children's Home Language(s) (SACHL). doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis

Interesting piece in @aunz.theconversation.com "If you curated your Twitter feed effectively..it was like being perpetually part of an in-crowd. The promise of a world where potentially anyone could feel connected, in touch, popular." theconversation.com/how-the-inte... @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

🆓🔓 Strömbergsson, S., Edlund, E., Pettersson, M., Phan, N., & Kurimo, M. (2026). Self-Supervised App-Based Speech Training for 🇸🇪Chn w/ Speech Sound Disorder-A Single-Case Experimental Design Study. IJLCD 61(1), e70163. doi.org/10.1111/1460... Don't get too excited, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis

The goal of this 🆕🆓🔓 commentary in @sigperspectives.bsky.social is to analyse the components and recommendations within #GLP/NLA to support SLPs' informed decision-making. pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.... @eieemosynary.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

🇺🇳 The #UnitedNations International Day of People with Disability 2025 #IDPwD2025 is on December 3. The theme is: "Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress." www.idpwd.com.au #IDPwD

" #Auslan is a complete, rich, visual language that is used by the Deaf community in Australia [&] is not a lesser communication option when compared with spoken language or [other] devices that use speech output." ~ Kathryn McKinley SPA President www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... 🦋 #bskySPEECHES #NDIS

RAGE BAIT Rage baiting (rage farming) is a form of click-baiting. Rage baiters elicit & fan 😠😡outrage😡😠 with the aim of increasing internet traffic, online engagement, 💰revenue💰 & support. It can be very lucrative. corp.oup.com/news/the-oxf... #manipulation

🧑‍🍳 Speechwoman's site of the month for November, 2025. Two amazing recipe books, to download free, for people with or cooking for people with #dysphagia. www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?op... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... I scored 7/8 by bungling question 7. Good comment, though! "Congratulations, you are ultra-impressive at detecting ultra-processed foods. Keep up the good work in the shopping aisles!"

🇹🇷 Close to my heart 💖 in @ashajournals.bsky.social 🆓🔓 Dükar, B. N., & Toğram, B. (2025). Adaptation of Parents and Children Together Intervention Program Into Turkish and Investigation of its Effectiveness. JSLHR, 1–20. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis #parents #PACT

🙌 15 mins of pure gold! 🙌 In this EXCELLENT 🆓 video from @coursebeetle.co.uk, @jititterington.bsky.social, @heleneslt.bsky.social & @katinkabaker.bsky.social from the Raising Awareness of Dosage in SSD " #RADiSS" group talk about dosage in #CHILDspeechDIS. vimeo.com/1133992280?s... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

🐾🐾 @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social

🐾 Winne, 🐾 Rosie, and @pipbrandon.bsky.social #groak

🖋️ @thereadingape.bsky.social💐writes: www.thereadingape.com/single-post/... #wholelanguage #read *Nullius in verba is the @royalsociety.org's motto. It means "no one's words" or "take nobody's word for it". It's from Horace's poem reflecting the scientific principle of verifying facts by experiment.

Hello, @ashajournals.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social --- is " @ashaweb.bsky.social " the real deal? #ASHA2025

Remember this, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES? “Sometimes people struggle to believe something said with an unfamiliar #accent.” Ogochukwu Joseph Uweru www.science.org/content/arti...

listenandlookbook.com www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-We-Fee... www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Rhian... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis 🧸👵📚

I've lost count of the number of times I've wanted an Aboriginal flag emoji but have needed to settle for 🖤💛❤️. c.org/8HT6xvVHqT I signed, will you?

🔐💰 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Davison, K. E., Strang, C., Gray-Bauer, H., Liu, T., & Zuk, J. (2025). Caregiver Oral #Reading #Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension. JSLHR, 1–13. doi.org/10.1044/2025... Makes a lot of sense, 🦋 #bskyspeechies

Read this: theconversation.com/australias-p... in @aunz.theconversation.com and thought of you, @batdogwalker.bsky.social #library #libraries #publiclibrary #booksky 🧡📚

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

Grant A Leigh J Botha M Macdonald SJ Williams K Williams G Rose K Memmott A & Pearson A 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2754... What #autistic people & those with #ADHD & #dyslexia think about the word #neurodiversity theconversation.com/what-autisti... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #autism #terminology #neurodivergence

🆓 Differentiating Comprehension from the Components of Reading written by Hugh W. Catts💐 & Alan G. Kamhi💐 & published by @aft.org #scienceofreading Reading "comprehension is not a skill or set of skills; rather, it is a complex multidimensional ability". www.aft.org/ae/winter202... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social authors emphasise the strength of sentence repetition for screening, saying (1) it should be the cornerstone of language screening (2) +research is needed to see if additional language tests enhance accuracy. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #DevLangDis

🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social SimoneauK CormierL Lefebvre-DemersM BlackburnMO CôtéC BoucherN CroteauC & HottonM (2025). The Experience of a First Hearing Aid Fitting: Perspectives From Adults with H/L, Their Relatives, & HCPs. JSLHR, 68(11), 5592–5607. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

🆓🔓Beiting, M., Viswanathan, N., Caballero, N., Hitchcock, E., @bitslab.bsky.social, & @jprestonslp.bsky.social (2025). Exploring perception of coarticulatory cues in #CAS and residual SSD: A pilot study. JComDis, 118, 106583. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis #apraxia

🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social Highman, C., Wylie, K., Overby, M., @suze-freogirl.bsky.social, Thilakaratne, R., & @tricmc.bsky.social (2025). "I Just Want Him to Be Understood": Parent Perspectives... #CAS AJSLP, 34(6), 3263–3278. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis #apraxia