Daniela O’Neill
@danielaoneill.bsky.social
Expert on how children’s social pragmatic communication grows & developer of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) to assess this in 2- & 3-year-olds #DevLangDis | Outreach on #PlayfulLearning #language & #literacy in urban spaces @UofWaterloo 🇨🇦 #bskySPEECHIES
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Language Use Inventory (LUI) | Assessing Young Children's Pragmatic Language
The Language Use Inventory is a standardized parent-report questionnaire for assessing pragmatic language development in children 18 to 47 months of age.
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If you’re an #SLP #SLT, researcher/professional in early language assessment <4yrs, you can always trial the standardized Language Use Inventory free (online since 2016 for #telepractice) More info: bit.ly/LUI_KID #earlyintervention #DevLangDis #pragmatics #languagedevelopment
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Check out this excellent episode of the Impact Society's podcast, Talking Impact featuring Dr. John Mighton and JUMP Math.
February 14, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Check out this excellent episode of the Impact Society's podcast, Talking Impact featuring Dr. John Mighton and JUMP Math.
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
February 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
I often don’t know what studies are using my Language Use Inventory, and so it’s always a nice surprise when This happens, as in this new study with minimally verbal children where it was used as part of their Communicative Competence measure link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Bskyspeechies #autism
#Bskyspeechies #autism
Sub-groups of spoken language and broader communication skills in a large heterogenous cohort of minimally verbal school-age children: evidence of discrepant profiles - Molecular Autism
Molecular Autism - Communication and language profiles in neurodevelopmental conditions are characterised by enormous phenotypic heterogeneity. We sought to identify subgroups of Minimally Verbal...
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February 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I often don’t know what studies are using my Language Use Inventory, and so it’s always a nice surprise when This happens, as in this new study with minimally verbal children where it was used as part of their Communicative Competence measure link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Bskyspeechies #autism
#Bskyspeechies #autism
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For more on the science and social function of small talk, this episode has been consistently popular among our autistic listeners
February 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
For more on the science and social function of small talk, this episode has been consistently popular among our autistic listeners
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Does your toddler call every animal a dog? Or call the moon a ball?
Both are examples of a perfectly normal toddler behavior known as overextension.
Thread 🧵
Both are examples of a perfectly normal toddler behavior known as overextension.
Thread 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Does your toddler call every animal a dog? Or call the moon a ball?
Both are examples of a perfectly normal toddler behavior known as overextension.
Thread 🧵
Both are examples of a perfectly normal toddler behavior known as overextension.
Thread 🧵
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Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is.
Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820)
#springernature #closedscience
Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820)
#springernature #closedscience
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Apparently, there is still funding left in academia even though Springer Nature made $489 million profits off of it in 2024. And now they are telling researchers what great news that is.
Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820)
#springernature #closedscience
Let me fix this for you... (inspired by arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820)
#springernature #closedscience
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Rereading it, I see just how much higher level vocabulary I was exposed to in reading comics, something I preach about often. I have compiled a list of this vocabulary in just this one story. Excitement and engagement kept me reading. The built-in scaffolding of image and text helped make meaning.
February 5, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Rereading it, I see just how much higher level vocabulary I was exposed to in reading comics, something I preach about often. I have compiled a list of this vocabulary in just this one story. Excitement and engagement kept me reading. The built-in scaffolding of image and text helped make meaning.
The first article in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience special issue 10 years of @theabcdstudy.bsky.social is now online! 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What we have learned about adolescent mental health and where we are going after a decade with the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
This review synthesizes ten years of research utilizing data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, emphasizing how the study’s…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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Most people can call up pictures in their minds, visualizing the past & summoning images of the future. But for ~4% of us, such mental imagery is weak or absent. New edition of @nature.com has a nice introduction to how research on this phenomenon (aphantasia) opens up novel windows into the brain.🧪
Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Most people can call up pictures in their minds, visualizing the past & summoning images of the future. But for ~4% of us, such mental imagery is weak or absent. New edition of @nature.com has a nice introduction to how research on this phenomenon (aphantasia) opens up novel windows into the brain.🧪
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Free, Tues:
AGING PLAYFULLY:
Reimagining the Possibilities
FREE WEBINAR presents Maxx Hartt
We grow old if we stop playing...
Tues. Jan. 27 11am EST / 4pm UTC
Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities
Register FREE & share:
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AGING PLAYFULLY:
Reimagining the Possibilities
FREE WEBINAR presents Maxx Hartt
We grow old if we stop playing...
Tues. Jan. 27 11am EST / 4pm UTC
Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities
Register FREE & share:
bit.ly/3KU86uj
January 23, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Free, Tues:
AGING PLAYFULLY:
Reimagining the Possibilities
FREE WEBINAR presents Maxx Hartt
We grow old if we stop playing...
Tues. Jan. 27 11am EST / 4pm UTC
Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities
Register FREE & share:
bit.ly/3KU86uj
AGING PLAYFULLY:
Reimagining the Possibilities
FREE WEBINAR presents Maxx Hartt
We grow old if we stop playing...
Tues. Jan. 27 11am EST / 4pm UTC
Invite: Cities for Better Health & 8 80 Cities
Register FREE & share:
bit.ly/3KU86uj
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🎉Chalk & Talk just surpassed 300,000 podcast downloads. YouTube views are up significantly too! My goal: improving math education by sharing knowledge about what works.
🙏Thanks for listening & please share the podcast with someone who could benefit. Channel link below.
🙏Thanks for listening & please share the podcast with someone who could benefit. Channel link below.
January 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM
🎉Chalk & Talk just surpassed 300,000 podcast downloads. YouTube views are up significantly too! My goal: improving math education by sharing knowledge about what works.
🙏Thanks for listening & please share the podcast with someone who could benefit. Channel link below.
🙏Thanks for listening & please share the podcast with someone who could benefit. Channel link below.
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Check out this article featuring our work via BBC Science Focus. Thank you, Nate Scharping, for a thoughtful piece on #dyslexia and its causes:
"Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/wh...
"Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/wh...
Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read
www.sciencefocus.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Check out this article featuring our work via BBC Science Focus. Thank you, Nate Scharping, for a thoughtful piece on #dyslexia and its causes:
"Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/wh...
"Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/wh...
New blogpost from @pamelasnow.bsky.social
Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five
Hint: “language is literacy is language”
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #OntEd #CdnEd #languagedevelopment
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-...
Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five
Hint: “language is literacy is language”
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #OntEd #CdnEd #languagedevelopment
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-...
Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five.
pamelasnow.blogspot.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
New blogpost from @pamelasnow.bsky.social
Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five
Hint: “language is literacy is language”
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #OntEd #CdnEd #languagedevelopment
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-...
Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five
Hint: “language is literacy is language”
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #OntEd #CdnEd #languagedevelopment
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-...
When Older Students Can’t Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Pair with webinar by Joan Sedita based on her new book Essentials of Adolescent Literacy home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Pair with webinar by Joan Sedita based on her new book Essentials of Adolescent Literacy home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...
When Older Students Can't Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy
Structured literacy classes at a New Hampshire middle school have helped some students crack the code.
www.edweek.org
January 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
When Older Students Can’t Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Pair with webinar by Joan Sedita based on her new book Essentials of Adolescent Literacy home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Pair with webinar by Joan Sedita based on her new book Essentials of Adolescent Literacy home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...
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1/3 “People often think only smart people learn math.
But it goes the other way. If you learn math, it helps make you smarter.” -Barb Oakley in my latest episode. I had both Barb and John Mighton on (two of my favourite people). John was my first guest! Ep link below👇
But it goes the other way. If you learn math, it helps make you smarter.” -Barb Oakley in my latest episode. I had both Barb and John Mighton on (two of my favourite people). John was my first guest! Ep link below👇
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
1/3 “People often think only smart people learn math.
But it goes the other way. If you learn math, it helps make you smarter.” -Barb Oakley in my latest episode. I had both Barb and John Mighton on (two of my favourite people). John was my first guest! Ep link below👇
But it goes the other way. If you learn math, it helps make you smarter.” -Barb Oakley in my latest episode. I had both Barb and John Mighton on (two of my favourite people). John was my first guest! Ep link below👇
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🎉My podcast Chalk & Talk hit 200,000 downloads!
If you haven't listened, check it out! I'm a mathematician & an advocate for better math instruction for students of all ages. I've published 49 episodes, with more great episodes to come!
If you haven't listened, check it out! I'm a mathematician & an advocate for better math instruction for students of all ages. I've published 49 episodes, with more great episodes to come!
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
🎉My podcast Chalk & Talk hit 200,000 downloads!
If you haven't listened, check it out! I'm a mathematician & an advocate for better math instruction for students of all ages. I've published 49 episodes, with more great episodes to come!
If you haven't listened, check it out! I'm a mathematician & an advocate for better math instruction for students of all ages. I've published 49 episodes, with more great episodes to come!
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We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with RBC to expand access to financial literacy education for more than 12,000 children in underserved communities across Canada by 2027.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with RBC to expand access to financial literacy education for more than 12,000 children in underserved communities across Canada by 2027.
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Here are almost 40 of my favourite #MiddleGrade reads for 2025.
A fantastic range from wild fantasy, to gritty realism, historical adventures and more than a few scares. What a brilliant year its been for children’s books
A fantastic range from wild fantasy, to gritty realism, historical adventures and more than a few scares. What a brilliant year its been for children’s books
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Here are almost 40 of my favourite #MiddleGrade reads for 2025.
A fantastic range from wild fantasy, to gritty realism, historical adventures and more than a few scares. What a brilliant year its been for children’s books
A fantastic range from wild fantasy, to gritty realism, historical adventures and more than a few scares. What a brilliant year its been for children’s books
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Very penetrating analyses and very sad graphs! Many take-home messages, among them that math is a very cumulative subject. Displaced learning curves are hard to boost.
www.brookings.edu/articles/lea...
www.brookings.edu/articles/lea...
Learning curves: Post-COVID learning trajectories differ by the grade a student was in when the pandemic hit | Brookings
Lauren Bauer and Eileen Powell assess whether the effect of COVID-related disruptions differed depending on the grade a student was in during the 2019–20 school year.
www.brookings.edu
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Very penetrating analyses and very sad graphs! Many take-home messages, among them that math is a very cumulative subject. Displaced learning curves are hard to boost.
www.brookings.edu/articles/lea...
www.brookings.edu/articles/lea...
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It should be: why has it taken so long for comics to be so popular? It’s taken a while but finally they’re getting their dues.
Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
Why are kids getting into comics and is their timing spot on?
What is driving a surge in enthusiasm for comics among children and how may it benefit their future?
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December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It should be: why has it taken so long for comics to be so popular? It’s taken a while but finally they’re getting their dues.
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
english.elpais.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)
#highered #academicsky
#openaccess
Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools
In this qualitative study, we describe the reported processes, enablers and barriers associated with transformations towards adopting structured literacy instruction at the whole-school level. Theo...
www.tandfonline.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
#openaccess
Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
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A few weeks ago, it was my honour to give the The Leverhulme Trust Centenary Lecture, and you can hear it here if you're interested
Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research of adolescence
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/annu...
Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research of adolescence
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/annu...
Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research on adolescence
On the occasion of the Leverhulme Trust’s centenary year, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FBA FMedSci FRS, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge spoke on one hundred ...
media.leverhulme.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
A few weeks ago, it was my honour to give the The Leverhulme Trust Centenary Lecture, and you can hear it here if you're interested
Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research of adolescence
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/annu...
Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research of adolescence
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/annu...
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"We found that #language similarity affected the amount of exposure needed to reach a certain level of proficiency."
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
The role of linguistic context and language similarity in the relationship between language exposure and language
proficiency in bilingual children | John Benjamins
Abstract
Amount of exposure has consistently been shown to influence language development in bilingual children. To date,
it has been treated as a variable that affects language development in the sam...
www.jbe-platform.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"We found that #language similarity affected the amount of exposure needed to reach a certain level of proficiency."
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
A very informative piece!
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#literacy #righttoread #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #cdned #bskyedu
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#literacy #righttoread #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #cdned #bskyedu
Build Canada's Literacy Foundation
A fifth of Canadians are functionally illiterate. This has massive social impacts and costs Canada $67 billion in productivity.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
A very informative piece!
share.google/vYY7ltqlClry...
#literacy #righttoread #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #cdned #bskyedu
share.google/vYY7ltqlClry...
#literacy #righttoread #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #cdned #bskyedu