New free Open Source book, with Paul Thompson, on Evaluating What Works. Intended as a primer on methods for evaluating interventions for those with little background in statistics and research methods. Examples are from speech and language therapy. bookdown.org/dorothy_bishop…

I had a great evening! Thanks so much freospeech for hosting and to everyone there for sharing their thoughts and experiences on supporting #DevLangDis

Big day in the #SEND world today. If you do have a moment then tune in this morning.

Working with Better Communication CIC we are recruiting 90 Early Years settings to our Concept Cat study from Birmingham, Manchester and the North West areas. Join us!

Early Years settings, this is your chance to get involved in research. And if you're in Birmingham, Greater Manchester or the North West, it includes Concept Cat from us Better Communication CIC anna branagan

#openaccess Language gains in 4–6‐year‐old children with developmental language disorder and the relation with language profile, severity, multilingualism and non‐verbal cognition #DevLangDis #languagedevelopment #SLT #SLP #preK #K12 #earlyyears #ElemEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Extremely excited to share this work. I took a step outside my wheelhouse w the support of amazing co-authors. We learned much about the weaknesses and STRENGTHS of children w DLD. Many thx to the parents for generousity #DevLangDis pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

We are developing an intervention for children with overlapping SSD + #devlangdis Phase 1- systematic review. We will explore shared characteristics of SSD/DLD interventions & underlying theory. Protocol now available to read BMJ_Open 👇 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/6/e…

An excellent paper looking at the experiences of parents of children with #DevLangDis and adults with #DevLangDis.

Repeating call for participants: would love to hear from more recently qualified SLTs/Band 5s. Contribute to our understanding of EBP for therapy in preschool children AND get a £30 voucher for your time! RCSLTResearch NAPLIC #DevLangDis

Very exciting consensus work on SSD labelling in the UK The The MISLToe_SSD Study is turning research on its head. 1. What can we learn from clinical practice 2. What do we need to put into place to allow this learning to happen? osf.io/nm2c6/

Our UCL ChangeMakers podcast is live! Discussion on what we love about being SLTs, developing relationships, managing challenges, looking after our well being & tips for NQPs UCL speech & language therapy RCSLT 💙 youtube.com/watch?v=4ofJZa… open.spotify.com/episode/6pdj79…

SUCH fascinating discussions and excellent food- brunch journal clubs are clearly the way forward. Our amazing SLT team came up with great insights and concrete ideas for how we can better collaborate with our teaching colleagues. Thanks Jenny Ray 🌈 for organising!

We now have a whole suite of Developmental Language Disorder videos and resources for schools and families on our website here: naplic.org.uk/dld-resources-… Take a look and share. #DevLangDis

Not sure an 8500 word qualitative paper lends itself to a 1-page infographic but I've given it a go! When it comes to implementing new interventions, are you Venturing with practice change or does your service support Transforming? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Of course I’m biased but this is a wonderful opportunity to join an amazing team and progressive department at UCL. Our Associate Professor in Developmental Language Sciences post is now open for applications until 8th December ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…. UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Language & Cognition

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I crocheted the very hungry caterpillar and all the food it eats if anyone CARES