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📅✨ Grab your 2026 diary and secure your place at the BAPM Spring Conference! Join resident doctors, ANNPs and AHPs for two days of learning, networking and the latest clinical updates. 📍 Northampton & Online 🗓️ 10–11 March 2026 🎟️ Early bird tickets available now! www.bapm.org/events/bapm-...

📢 BANNFU Executive Committee Vacancies We’re looking for passionate members to help shape national neonatal follow-up services and support education, research and standards of care. 📅 Deadline: 30 Nov www.bapm.org/articles/com...

Great wee straightforward myth-busting read from powerhouses in the field. Any of Palmer’s (esp BOLUS framework) and Leslie’s (esp ethics) work is well worth a read for any dysphagia clinician.

This talk will include a brief review of brain injury and brain development in preterm babies and ways in which we can promote brain development.  🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST 📍 Where: Facebook | X | YouTube

🤩Just 7 days to bag yourself for #UKSRG26 Early Bird tickets before prices increase! 🚨 Join us for themes including oesophageal dysphagia, AI, impact of dysphagia, palliative care & respiratory!!! Workshops can be selected during registration! 🔗 app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...

🔐💰 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

Supporting families with preterm infants on their developmentally supportive feeding journey is but one of the roles of speech and language therapists in the neonatal unit #NICUParentHeroes #WorldPrematurityDay @neosltcen.bsky.social

Paediatric feeding conference in 2026 - for more info see: iapfs.org/convention-p...

🚨 Early bird tickets for #UKSRG26 are still available! Join us 5th-6th Feb 2026 @ Birmingham for cutting-edge sessions on: 🤖 AI 🏥 Critical Care 🫁 Respiratory 🗣️ Oesophageal Disorders 🌿 Palliative Care 🥣 Impact of Dysphagia Secure your spot now 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event…

Join us for a webinar to mark World Prematurity Day 💜 We’ll explore the lifelong impact of prematurity, support for families, & how to improve long-term outcomes for children born preterm. Date: 20 November Time: 1:00-2:30pm www.bapm.org/events/world...

Mass General Brigham studied 18,124 births and found that children exposed to maternal COVID-19 in the womb had a 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3, especially if exposure happened in the third trimester or in male children. journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

Pediatricians who communicate without jargon, listen to parents' concern, and ensure families have enough time during appointments can influence follow-up after a newborn hearing evaluation. Learn more from #ASHASIG7 https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-24-00188 #AuDPeeps

Excited to have my first ever co-written book chapter in here. On eating, drinking & swallowing difficulties. Great to write it with @dianejsellers.bsky.social @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social & Ailish Hope people find it useful 👇🏼

Afternoon everyone! Just a reminder that early bird tickets for the UKSRG 2026 conference will be on sale until 1st of December! 🦅 We will be releasing more information over the coming months including speaker spotlights and themes. Tickets 🔗: app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...

Children, including those with developmental problems and disabilities, are facing unacceptably long waits for NHS community services, which are putting their life chances at risk, according to a @nuffieldtrust.org.uk report.

🎥 Recordings of the first two webinars in BAPM’s QI Series are now available! Free to view for BAPM members — just log in and visit the Resources page: 🔗 www.bapm.org/pages/191-re...

What an opportunity! 🤩 ✅ Develop your #SLT research curiosity, knowledge and skills ✅ Support to develop your own #SLT research career if you want to

Great to hear this study from @kellyslt.bsky.social & colleagues. Important to think about eating, drinking & swallowing through childhood & beyond @essd-dysphagia.bsky.social

Mark Dickinson @nasuwt-official.bsky.social "highlighted the consequences of cuts to children’s services, including the lack of early intervention, long waiting lists for speech and language therapy...These services are not luxuries. They are the safety net that allows every child to thrive.”

If you are interested in eating and drinking difficulties often called #Dysphagia Here’s a fab starter pack from @lisa-everton.bsky.social go.bsky.app/61hW62g

Great to have an overview of past aims, progress & the future of paediatric dysphagia practice. Encouraging progress but still much to do @essd-dysphagia.bsky.social

💗 During #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, we remember every baby and every family affected by loss. BAPM’s Lactation and Loss framework supports healthcare professionals to provide compassionate, informed care for parents navigating milk production after loss. 🔗 Learn more: www.bapm.org/resources/la...

So excited to be able to progress this important work in collaboration with inspirational and passionate families, clinicians and researchers 🤩

🆓🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Fan, S., @samueldcalder.bsky.social, Kemp, N., & Holm, A. (2025). Optimal Dosage Characteristics of Recasting for #DevLangDis: A Scoping Review. JSLHR, 1–25. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #slpeeps 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

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/...

Voice evaluations are often needed when children present with #dysphonia. But do children tolerate instrumental voice assessments? Find out here in #AJSLP. https://on.asha.org/4giv7ml @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social#dysphonia#AJSLP#AJSLP

We are recruiting!! Join #MISLToe_SSD and be part of the new study in Wales. This is an exciting project which is now in phase 2 with phase 3 in the planning stages. If you know about speech sound disorder and know about research, please apply. jobs.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Great to see Nicoll Bell representing Royal College Of Speech and Language Therapists at #BAPMtogether conference 2025 🤩 #SLT #AHP

Don't forget to join us at 1pm today for Family Integrated Care in Wales: Families and Nurses Working Together The event is hosted by NNA Cymru and will feature FICare representatives from across Wales. Book your place here: bit.ly/4ga38F4 #FamilyIntegratedCare

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....

🔥Hot off the press from Claire Marcroft: “Neonatal neurodevelopmental follow-up in the UK: a survey of current practice and future recommendations” bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @bapmofficial.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social #NHS #AHP #Neonatal #neurodevelopment

💥 Get ready! 💥 This speaker’s credentials are seriously epic 🤩 Prof. Bandini will be diving into the development of AI-based methods to automate videofluoroscopy analysis (yes, the future is here 👀 👀). 👉 Early bird tickets 🦅 : app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve... See you in Brum 😉

🚨 Great news! 🚨 You’ve got extra time ⏳ Our abstract deadline is now extended to 10th September 🎉 Don’t miss your chance to share your work with us! Conference registration will open imminently.. 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth/?redire... #Research #Abstracts #DeadlineExtended #UKSRG26

Eating disorders often involve dysphagia. This #OpenAccess paper for #ASHASIG13 explores ED types, symptoms, and the SLP’s role in assessing and treating swallowing issues as part of holistic, interdisciplinary care on.asha.org/4fOtufZ

📆 Coming Soon on #NeonatologyNow #podcast! Our host Prof Dr Mario Rüdiger and his esteemed guest, Prof Dr Barbara Schmidt, discuss #Apnea of prematurity and the use of #caffeine. Tune in to hear what Prof Dr Schmidt suggests for #preemies with a diagnosis of apnoea. 🍼 #Neonatology #Pediatrics

NICU parents your voice matters! See opportunity for research on feeding infants after NICU from my doctoral student Carol Gilmore ⬇️

Meet the antivax whisperer trying to turnaround Britain's child vaccine slump one family at a time. How does she do it? What does she say? Interview with Professor Elizabeth Whittaker: www.thetimes.com/article/26a8...

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

Join us for our brand new webinar series on Neuro-Protective Trauma Informed FICare When you attend an NNA online learning event you will receive a Reflective Practice Form and an NNA attendance certificate confirming the duration of CPD completed. Book here - FREE for NNA members 👉 bit.ly/43j2BuL

🚨 It’s here! The #UKSRG2026 Abstract Portal is NOW OPEN! 🚨 Got research to share? We want to see it! 🧠🗣️ Submit your abstract via Oxford Abstracts (register if you haven’t already!)👇 🗓️ Deadline: 5th September 🔗 auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st...

Great work carried out & presented by Jo Matthews & Audrey Martin. Essential contribution to evidence base on one-way speaking valve decision making in children & young people. Proud of you both 🌟 adc.bmj.com/content/110/... #paeds #tracheostomy #airway #OWV #LTV

🚨 Another powerful theme at #UKSRG2026 : The Impact of Dysphagia We’re thrilled to welcome @SltSonja Sonja Jacobs, who’ll share her work on supporting the parents of premature infants after hospital discharge. 💡 #Dysphagia #SLT #NeonatalCare #UKSRG2026

#ResearchTuesday! Late talkers may continue to demonstrate lower outcomes related to reading and other language-related skills into young adulthood. Learn more in #JSLHR: at.asha.org/DW @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Happy birthday to the Royal College of Speech and language therapists (UK) on their 80th anniversary. Poignant celebration at Southwark Cathedral with wonderful colleagues from across the UK #ConnectionMatters

So today I’m at the London Paediatric Dysphagia Clinical Excellence Network (CEN) online today. Free to attend. Will be posting through the day. pdcen.org/events_summa...

Very exciting paper on UK NICU mothers own milk (MOM) has just been published online by Shalini Ojha's group: fn.bmj.com/content/earl... Strong social determinants of exclusive & any MOM. Highest risk of no/non exclusive are white mothers <26 years living in most deprived areas 1/

Happy to share this FREE online course about Human Milk & the Infant Gut Microbiome! Aimed at healthcare professionals, it includes a lecture by yours truly plus quizzes and interactive case-study. unlok-education.com/human-milk-a...

One year respiratory and neurodevelopmental outcome of premature neonates after exposure to plasticizers in the neonatal intensive care unit – a prospective cohort study Plastic devices ?associated with ND outcomes ?confounded by severity doi.org/10.1016/j.en... @donsharkey.bsky.social

Colostrum is powerful stuff. Risk of allergy in childhood to egg and peanut reduced if feeding an exclusive colostrum diet in first three days of life. #NeoSky #allergy #MedSky #PedSky www.healio.com/news/allergy...