Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @HVDL_Foundation working with me and colleagues on language intervention with young offenders with DLD closing date for app is 10.01.21 Feel free to get in touch! bcu.ac.uk/research/our-p… SLT at BCU HELS Research

Kamini Gadhok MBE talks about the impact of the pandemic on children and young people #appgsld

Day 3 of advent and Alan the Alien is learning about....Christmas Trees! Get Hackney Talking Jenny Ray 🌈 Orchard Primary School Shoreditch Park Primary Sebright Primary Holy Trinity CofE Primary Princess May Primary School Morningside Primary School Mossbourne Parkside

Day 4 and today Alan the Alien is learning about...Santa!🎅 Over the weekend the Alan the Alien advent calendar will continue with some fun activities to try at home! Get Hackney Talking Jenny Ray 🌈 Morningside Primary School Orchard Primary School Shoreditch Park Primary @LauristonSchool @DaubeneyHackney

DLD and SLCN specialist teachers come and join our free networking and sharing event in January. Details: …ialistteachernetwork.eventbrite.co.uk If you know someone who might be interested, please forward this to them.

Missed a few but here they are again.

Day 8: Alan learns about Christmas carols! Carols are special songs that people sing at Christmas time. Alan loves to sing! Here are some of Alan’s friends, Pentatonix singing his favourite carol, Deck the Halls: shorturl.at/ntuUV Tell us your favourite carol! 🎶🎅🎄

We are interviewing for our recently advertised specialist teacher post next week. Hopefully we will have some good news to share very soon.

We finish for the Christmas break on 18th December! We would like to say a massive thank you to all our children, parents, schools and settings for working so hard and so creatively with us this term.We have seen you on visits, seen you on Zoom and appreciate everything you do.😀

We are sad to be saying goodbye to Laura, one of our specialist teachers who is moving on at the end of term. Thank you Laura for all you do for children with DLD. We will miss you.

We are also saying goodbye to Fiona, our team leader who is taking early retirement at Christmas. She has worked in Rochdale with children who have DLD #DevLangDis since 2003!

Day 9: Alan is feeling very chilly...today he is learning about snow ❄️☃️🌨️ Get Hackney Talking Jenny Ray 🌈 @DaubeneyHackney Orchard Primary School Shoreditch Park Primary Mossbourne Parkside Morningside Primary School

Reaching out to mainstream primary speech and language therapists interested in joining an online focus group about #ColourfulSemantics to support #DevLangDis and potential avenues for research on Friday 18th December @ 12:30pm GMT. Rafiah

Lovely thoughts for everyone at the end of a hard week.

This is why everyone needs to know about SLCN including DLD. Identification and making the invisible visible is key. #DevLangDis

The Covid Language Gap.

Our parents may be interested in this. Sencos please share.

Day 11: Alan has been wondering about the word...mistletoe let's help him learn! Get Hackney Talking Jenny Ray 🌈 Holmleigh School Morningside Primary School St Monica's Catholic Primary School Orchard Primary School Shoreditch Park Primary

A historic moment.

Day 16: Alan is learning all about Christmas Crackers!! Get Hackney Talking Jenny Ray 🌈 St Monica's Catholic Primary School Sebright Primary Orchard Primary School Shoreditch Park Primary Harringtonhill Holy Trinity CofE Primary Holmleigh School