A Speech Pathologist/ Special Ed Teacher/ Guidance Counsellor developing award-winning Educational and Therapy Apps & Programs to make a difference #DevLangDis
Brisbane, Australia
Joined June 2013
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🆕🆓🔓#apraxia While #CAS is largely framed as a MOTOR speech disorder due to movement planning or programming deficits, #LANGUAGE & #LITERACY impairments occur in >90% of individuals. Neuroimaging shows perturbation of linguistic AND motor pathways. nature.com/articles/s41380-0…
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Be a virtual newspaper boy/girl! Please share this year's poster about DLD awareness day! #DevLangDis @RADLDcam #DLDday
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‘When you notice a child experiencing difficulties at school, whether that be with learning, literacy, behaviour, friendships or attention, ask yourself: “Could it be a speech and language challenge?”,’ says @speechandlanguk CEO @Jane_Harris77
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💫 Final Call for Abstracts 💫 for the International Developmental Language Disorder Research Conference.
Abstracts close on Monday 3 July. thedldproject.com/idldrc-abs…
Please help spread the word by retweeting and tagging #DevLangDis researchers and clinicians.
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#spaconfmelb @SpeechLangLearn so proud of latest team member presenting her honours research - vocabulary learning in First Nations People. – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Look forward to reading this- matches long term clinical observations for sure!
Very interesting study
“sequencing deficits showed the strongest relationship with (later) phonological awareness”
NOT phonological errors 🤯
#SSD #SpeechSoundDisorder
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✨📢✨ BREAKING NEWS! Applications are now open for the IDLDRC DLD Research Grant. Apply here ==> thedldproject.com/idldrc-dld…
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Identifying & treating children with #DevLangDis within the context of their different languages is challenging. Read our new @DLDandMe post by @jannaoetting on identifying DLD in children whose first language is not the language or instruction at school.
dldandme.org/dld-affects-all…
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#ialp2019 Westby - the importance of reminiscing to develop a child's autobiographic memory - links with personal narratives. Importance of eliciting personal narratives when appraising language skills of children on SLP caseload.
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#ialp2019 Westby on screen time and ASD- some great references and food for thought e.g. Associations Between Parenting, Media Use, Cumulative Risk, ... : Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/Ful…
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#IALP2019 @cristina_mckean journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… open access for further reading – at Taipei City, Taiwan
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'Children with speech and language problems face ‘postcode lottery’ of support' - Our CEO, @KGadhok, quoted here in response to today's @ChildrensComm report findings about funding for children's speech and language therapy #speakupforslcn independent.co.uk/news/educa…
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“Children with poor vocabulary skills are twice as likely to be unemployed...More than 60% of children in Young Offender Institutions have communication difficulties”
Difficulty accessing SLT is a daily problem for children in NHS. Needs to change. independent.co.uk/news/educa…
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SAVE THE DATE
The next International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day will be on Friday, 18th October 2019.
Next year's theme will "DLD & Me". We are excited to launch the details of how you can all be involved soon!
#devlangdis
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Fifty-five years today (7/11) Eleanor Roosevelt died. She was the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights and oversaw the drafting of the UDHR, including article 19 that protects communication as a human right. #SpeakUp4CommRights @ASHAweb standup4humanrights.org/en/i…
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“Other factors outside of parental influence that determine vocabulary, pronunciation and language acquisition may include physical challenges such as significant ankyloglossia (tongue-tie), cleft lip or palate and other... mymunchbug.com/2018/09/get-b…
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ICYMI: ‘Thousands of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder miss out on NDIS funding due to lack of diagnosis’ (5 minute read). FASD is thought to affect up to 5 per cent of the population, which means about 1.3 million people. #SpeakUp4CommRights abc.net.au/news/2018-09-13/f…
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While Speech Pathology Week for 2018 is almost at end, the task of advocating for the 1.2 million Australians with communication disability continues… because ‘communication access is communication for all’. #SPweek #SpeakUp4CommRights #WeSpeechies speechpathologyaustralia.org…
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‘New Study Finds that Aging Can Make It More Difficult to Swallow’ (2 min read). Research establishes the need for exercise programs for older adults that target throat muscles just like those that target other muscles of the human body. #IcommunicationP nyu.edu/about/news-publicati…
