Your baby’s brain isn’t the only one that’s developing.

I’ve written a good bit about the brain development of newborns and how to stimulate it.

But today I want to talk about the developing brains of parents - which research suggests also change concurrent with pregnancy and…

Tomorrow is the kick off for Apraxia Awareness Month! Check out our Awareness Month calendar and be sure to follow us on social media to participate in #ApraxiaAwarenessMonth this year!

#Multilingualism is a superpower! Multilingualism does NOT negatively impact language, literacy or development Sharynne McLeod

Bristol_SLTRU RCSLT 💙

Access to a website of resources is NOT enough to make a difference to children’s speech difficulties Sharynne McLeod

Bristol_SLTRU RCSLT 💙 #WaitingList #NHS #EarlyIntervention CSHCR Cardiff Met

Here is an example of an Umbrella review, that has been the basis of generating a Core Outcome Set (COS). I am sure the following publications from The MISLToe_SSD Study team will also be great examples of how to generate a population and clinically appropriate COS!

We are delighted to bring you the outcomes of our umbrella review #OpenAccess !

Massive amount of work in this 🌂 umbrella review! #SSD

Ofsted’s new Chief Inspector pledges to put the interests of disadvantaged children at the heart of future reforms
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Early SEND support needs going unmet cypnow.co.uk/analysis/artic…

Information Carrying Words (ICWs) are problematic for several reasons: Firstly, they are not applicable to languages Other Than English (LOTE).
A thread🧵 #ICWs #SpeechandLanguageTherapy

For 7 years, we've been warning that if you don't get SEND support right in schools you will see an increase in need at the other end. Many young people signing up for PIP now were starting secondary then. Don't abandon them twice. Disabled Children's Partnership

On my way to Birmingham for #NAPLIC24 . Looking forward to hearing lots about #DevLangDis , and meeting current (and hopefully future) colleagues from #DLDTogether Afasic

Professor Helen Stringer make best use of the free resources e.g NHS services which are universal and free at the point of access - if children need support, they should be getting it. If there isn’t enough capacity, then we need to ‘fight’ for it. NAPLIC #NAPLIC24 #DLD #DevLangDis

Thanks SO much Professor Helen Stringer for your inspiring talk and kind words today. It was lovely to meet you 😊. I hope that our paths cross again in the future.

Rachel is challenging herself to be involved in social media and matching posts about other ND conditions and saying that this is also relevant to DLD! 👏🌟 NAPLIC #DevLangDis #naplic2024

Simone - correlation between relationship and behaviour in youth justice services. Though, we DO know that adults with a history of DLD identified early in the YJ service, report having less contact with police. #DevLangDis NAPLIC #naplic2024

There has been limited public and professional awareness and understanding of #DevLangDis , NAPLIC The DLD Project Engage with Developmental Language Disorder doing a great job of changing this. Clinicians need more confidence to dx , some do have a reluctance to

Starting off a great day about DLD #naplic2024

Amazing to hear from Ioan, Imogen and Jotham about how #DevLangDis impacts a whole family. Things that help and things that hindered. #naplic24

If there is not enough support for children with #SLCN we should fight for them. That is our professional duty. Yes!
If people can't communicate with each other they end up throwing bombs at each other Professor Helen Stringer at #NAPLIC24