Amazing symposium organised by Andrea Salins and Courtney Hooton on orthographic facilitation SSSR #SSSR2024 with Séverine Casalis Kate Radville Anne Castles (and authors Tiffany Hogan Julie Wolter) 👏👏👏

Grateful and excited to be able to recruit 4 PhD students to join us Fall 25! More to come, but please reach out if you are thinking about grad school next year! Broad focus is on the use, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based practices in school contexts #impsci

It’s going to be fun, join us! #FCRRInTheField

Recruiting participants for my dissertation! See the attached flyer and please share with families who might be interested! Reach out with any questions! Link: fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0l…

🚨‼️Applying to graduate school in #psychology? Check out our Google Drive with prerecorded workshops, example statements, email templates, and additional resources including PsychinOut 🧠 free mentorship program and information for international students! drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

added to future course readings w/pre- and in-service teachers ✅✅✅

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Still buzzing from the joy of reuniting with my FCRR folks & others that I only see once a year now... Thanks to those who came to my talk on the first day & for the fun discussions that followed :) This conference always leaves me feeling more excited/motivated about research!

🎉New pub alert: Many folks have been interested in what we can do for reading comprehension at the sentence level, but there is not as much research. Dr. Cherish_Sarmiento Ph.D explored several areas to explore for assessment & instruction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

PhD position alert, starting the hiring process soon! Looking for candidates highly motivated to do research in #bilingual #aphasia under a 4-year fully funded #PhD contract #FPI. Please email your CV and expression of interest! More here! 👇

“Good leaders add value to others” - John C. Maxwell Blessed to have had these ladies as mentors and now friends. Love y’all! Keep doing #WERK #BlackMindsMatter The FCRR Lakeisha Johnson Nicole Patton Terry

Why did English end up with such a crazy spelling system? In new research funded by The Leverhulme Trust we analysed 1000 years of English spelling to find out. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya….

Just published w/ Anne Castles, Greg Leigh, and Linda Cupples: Orthography reduces the negative impact of noise on oral vocabulary learning in undergraduate students. Open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy

Have you wondered about why handwriting is still an important skill for kids to learn?🤔 To learn more about this from our director, Prof. Rauno Parrila, check out this recent article on benefits of letter writing for children’s literacy📝: kidsnews.com.au/spelling-bee/a…

Excited & grateful to share that my Australian Research Council #DECRA application was successful. I’ll be spending the next 3 years working out how children adjust their mispronunciations as they learn to read new words. Huge thanks to my collaborators and mentors #DE25 Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy Australian Catholic University

‼️🚨 Are you working on your materials for graduate school in #psychology? Check out our Google Drive which has example personal & diversity statements for a range of PhD & PsyD programs! **If you’d like to share your statements as examples, get in touch! drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

ICYMI: In this study Dr. Valeria Rigobon, Gutierrez, Dr. Ashley Edwards, Nancy Marencin, Cooper Borkenhagen, Dr. Laura Steacy, and Compton model item-level spelling variance in adults, providing insights into lexical quality. bit.ly/3M4sRAI

This study by Gutierrez, Dr. Valeria Rigobon, Nancy Marencin, Dr. Ashley Edwards, Dr. Laura Steacy, and Compton presents a classification and regression tree (CART) model predicting fourth-grade reading groups using first-grade measures. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…