Psychology researcher and lecturer @UCLPALS interested in child development, emotion, language, mental health and Rstats

London
Joined December 2012
Hello professionals in Higher Ed - lecturers, tutors, student support staff! We’d like to speak to you about your thoughts on language difficulties amongst students (*not* international students who speak English as a 2nd language). See york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…
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#2in30 children have Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), yet most people don't know about it. This #DLDday, watch and share Darcie's story, help us raise awareness and support children living with DLD👇speechandlanguage.org.uk/dld
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Sarah Griffiths retweeted
New paper out! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202… Learning to read irregular words may involve inhibiting the tendency to use the most common letter-sound mappings without considering whether the pronunciation matches a known spoken word. @jotaylor2306  @lilacCourt  @SarahLGriff  (1/6)
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Sarah Griffiths retweeted
I am a dutch, widowed parent, of a British child. I live in the UK on a parent visa and my daughter is happily growing up here, near my late wife's family and our friends. Last week @ukhomeoffice cancelled my right to be here. In error. A thread to put the record straight.
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Sarah Griffiths retweeted
Check out our latest blog post written by SCALES researcher @SarahLGriff discussing her new paper on the relationship between language and non-verbal reasoning! tinyurl.com/ye28m95z
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This week we’re looking at a paper that examined the relationship between language ability and social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in children with and without DLD. The authors of this paper were @ShaunKYGoh , @SarahLGriff , @lilacCourt and the SCALES Team.
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New @PALS_SCALES paper out today in Royal Society Open Science: “Relationship between early language competence and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescence” with @lilacCourt @suksasilp @clsebastian and Laura Lucas Paper: bit.ly/3iEsYEJ OSF: osf.io/pqfb7/
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This suggests that children with more severe language disorder are unlikely to be able to participate in common talking therapies for mental health. It also suggests a need to develop and practice language that can be used for emotion regulation.
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To find out more about the links between language and well-being, check out our video, made with our SCALES participants! youtube.com/watch?v=-orJLnCg…
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First live online session for Introduction to Statistical Methods today @UCLPALS @UCLLangCog @UCLPsychBSc Looking forward to meeting students for in person practicals on Friday!
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Sarah Griffiths retweeted
What does DLD have to do with later socio-emotional behavioural mental health? I am very happy to share a SCALES paper that is now out, written when I was a Visiting Fellow with @BritishAcademy_ @lilacCourt @SarahLGriff content.apa.org/fulltext/202…
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Looking forward to this ECR event on Wednesday. I'll be speaking about the importance of language and communication needs in children and young people's mental health. Sign up ends today!
📢 Registration ends TODAY for the Children & Young People’s Mental Health Early Career Researcher Event on Wed 7 July, 10am-12pm It will showcase the excellent CYP MH science led by #ECRs at UCL, featuring flash talks, networking + panel discussion. ℹ️ bit.ly/3vL1jpp
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Speech&LanguageTherapists! Our survey on data use in clinic is still open. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how data can drive evidence-based practice. 5 mins & you could win £20! newcastle.onlinesurveys.ac.u… @RCSLTResearch @ICANcharity @cristina_mckean @GhadaKhattabSLS @DrHelenSLT
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If you do research in mental health and/or language needs please respond to our survey :) We want to know what the research needs/questions are so we can help lay the foundations for us and other researchers to get cracking on answering them!
Are you a clinician, researcher or edu professional interested in children's mental health and/or communication needs? We want to know what the next big questions are for research on language needs and mental health! Tell us your ideas via this survey: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/…
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