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We won! Thrilled! Coproduction has made the EPID (Early Parent Interaction with Deaf Children) ten times better. It’s also made me a better researcher and a better SLT. Thank you to the parent partners4sharing their journeys & perspectives&thank you RCSLT 💙 for a lovely day.

Come and do a PhD or MSc with our team in the Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab at DCAL and UCL Language & Cognition We're currently running 2 big longitudinal studies of #language #reading development in children (deaf and hearing). We'll support your funding application! Contact me or register below:

Our new multidisciplinary offer for families with deaf children in Hackney. Planned and delivered by our deaf instructor, teachers of deaf children & speech and language therapists. Hearing siblings welcome! Hackney Council HHFT Get Hackney Talking Hackney Playbus Hackney Libraries

We're holding a FREE conference for practitioners & teachers working with deaf children - Language & Literacy in Deaf Children - Sat 8th March at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children School Registration open bit.ly/3WNd7I5 DCAL BATOD Prof Ros Herman UCL Language & Cognition NDCS Kate Rowley

Wow - our event sold out in 48 hours! All 120 original places gone! 🎉🎉 We've managed to add more spaces but don't miss out as they are going fast... It's going to be a wonderful event #deaf #TOD #teachers #Language #Literacy BATOD #SLPeeps

Today is the day! Our sold out practitioner event at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children School. We'll discuss our latest research findings with deaf children & think about implications for practice Dr Fiona Kyle Prof Ros Herman Kathryn Mason Kate Rowley Patrick Mairead MacSweeney BATOD DCAL

Thanks to everyone who came to our research to practice conference last week on Language and Literacy in Deaf Children at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children - amazing turnout ~130 practitioners working with deaf children #TOD #deafTOD & #sltpeeps! 6 research presentations and a panel discussion

Starting off the day Dr Fiona Kyle gave an overview of the Preschool Language & Literacy study - a 3 year longitudinal study following 122 deaf and 113 hearing children from preschool to the end of year 2. This is a 4-wave multiwave study ending in 2026 - Kathryn Mason Prof Ros Herman

Then Prof Prof Ros Herman presented on preschool spoken language outcomes in inclusive sample of deaf children - vocab & grammar, interesting discussion about morphology knowledge and how to improve it. Early exposure to an accessible language is critical Dr Fiona Kyle Kathryn Mason

Next up was Dr Fiona Kyle presenting about home literacy environments in deaf children & emergent literacy: lots of reading activities happening! Child interest was critical for deaf children's emergent literacy - how do we increase child interest in reading? Kathryn Mason

Final talk of the morning - Kathryn Mason presented on the validity of using #GAPS to screen for grammatical difficulties in preschool deaf children using spoken language - high sensitivity/specificity in preschool and at the end of reception Prof Ros Herman Dr Fiona Kyle

After lunch Mairead MacSweeney Patrick presented on role of visual language inputs in reading for deaf children - BSL, fingerspelling, speechreading. Introduced exciting new tests being developed to assess BSL phonological knowledge in deaf children - longitudinal study ends 2027

Then Kate Rowley introduced the newly-developed BSL Comprehension Test (with @misterpr19810) Huge interest in the room for this valuable assessment which will be available soon - performance on the BSL Comprehension test strongly associated with Reading Comprehension ability

Final talk by Dr Fiona Kyle who introduced our latest DCAL longitudinal study, Understanding Reading Success, and how linked to our Preschool study. 135 deaf and 220 hearing 8-9 yr olds being followed for 2 yrs with Prof Ros Herman Kate Rowley Nikki Botting Kathryn Mason

We ended the day with a practitioner-led panel discussion with #QTODs and #sltpeeps reflecting on key implications for practice - early language access, deaf role models, positive language. Lots of audience questions and contributions - watch this space for more info BATOD

Very honoured to have been invited to BBC Woman's Hour today to talk about the Born In Covid Year - Core Lockdown Effects & the #lockdown legacy on children’s #talking and #thinking skills. Many thanks to the wonderful Nuala McGovern, Rebecca Myatt & team for making it all run smoothly. #SLPeeps City Language & Communication Science

An early morning start for the Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab team to come back to the Elizabeth Foundation and see our superstar deaf children taking part in our research studies at DCAL - we can't wait to see their progress! Kathryn Mason Prof Ros Herman #YoungResearchers #scientistsinthemaking

We had a fabulous day catching up with these #YoungResearchers talking part in our Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab longitudinal studies into reading and language development - thanks to Elizabeth Foundation and the families for coming to see us - so much fun #SunnyDayandScienceCombined DCAL

Another fantastic couple of days down at the Elizabeth Foundation seeing the language and reading progress made by some of the 🌟🌟 #YoungResearchers taking part in our Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab Preschool project at DCAL- if only all our data collection could be this much fun 🥳 Prof Ros Herman

Our data collection is complete! Here's another video explaining the 2nd and 3rd stages. Now to analyse the data and share our findings! UCL Psych & Lang Sci DCAL Dr Fiona Kyle Prof Ros Herman youtube.com/watch?v=y_ceI4… (English) youtube.com/watch?v=Jiq3Fu… (BSL)