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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻
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Children's Speech Sound Disorders #ChildSpeechDis #DevLangDis Science, #Pseudoscience & #Misinformation in Health, Education, & Medical practice.
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 12d
Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs 📙 #EBPRoadmap by @carolinebowen.bsky.social & @pamelasnow.bsky.social with @pipbrandon.bsky.social Foreword @lovethatsmile.bsky.social Publisher @jandrpress.bsky.social www.jr-press.co.uk/product/evid...
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Book cover. "Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap" by Caroline Bowen and Pamela Snow, with Philippa Brandon. Foreword by Heidi Gregory.
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🔐💰 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Davison, K. E., Strang, C., Gray-Bauer, H., Liu, T., & Zuk, J. (2025). Caregiver Oral #Reading #Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension. JSLHR, 1–13. doi.org/10.1044/2025... Makes a lot of sense, 🦋 #bskyspeechies
Caregiver Oral Reading Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension
Purpose: Shared reading is one of the most language-enriched contexts in children's home environments. A salient, understudied characteristic of ...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Read this: theconversation.com/australias-p... in @aunz.theconversation.com and thought of you, @batdogwalker.bsky.social #library #libraries #publiclibrary #booksky 🧡📚
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November 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....
Developmental Language Disorder as a Multidimensional Neurodevelopmental Spectrum: Implications for Diagnosis
Purpose: We aimed to create a comprehensive understanding of the dilemmas involved in the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) and ...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Grant A Leigh J Botha M Macdonald SJ Williams K Williams G Rose K Memmott A & Pearson A 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2754...

What #autistic people & those with #ADHD & #dyslexia think about the word #neurodiversity theconversation.com/what-autisti...

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‘A Lovely Safe Umbrella to Describe Yourself With’ or ‘Meaningless’: An Online Survey of UK-Based Neurodivergent Adults’ Views of Neurodiversity-Related Terminology - Aimee Grant, Jennifer Leigh, Moni...
Background: Neurodivergence refers to people with ways of behaving and thinking that diverge from the norm. Examples include Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperacti...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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🆓 Differentiating Comprehension from the Components of Reading written by Hugh W. Catts💐 & Alan G. Kamhi💐 & published by @aft.org #scienceofreading Reading "comprehension is not a skill or set of skills; rather, it is a complex multidimensional ability". www.aft.org/ae/winter202... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
Rethinking Reading
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November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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🔐 In @ashajournals.bsky.social authors emphasise the strength of sentence repetition for screening, saying (1) it should be the cornerstone of language screening (2) +research is needed to see if additional language tests enhance accuracy. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Evaluating the Relative Importance of Seven Language Screening Measures: A Preliminary Investigation
Purpose: This preliminary study evaluated the relative importance of seven language screening measures, including sentence repetition, vocabulary...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social SimoneauK CormierL Lefebvre-DemersM BlackburnMO CôtéC BoucherN CroteauC & HottonM (2025). The Experience of a First Hearing Aid Fitting: Perspectives From Adults with H/L, Their Relatives, & HCPs. JSLHR, 68(11), 5592–5607. doi.org/10.1044/2025...
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The Experience of a First Hearing Aid Fitting: Perspectives From Adults With Hearing Loss, Their Relatives, and Hearing Care Professionals
Purpose: This study is the first step in a project aimed at developing an intervention program for new hearing aid (HA) users and their relatives...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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🆓🔓Beiting, M., Viswanathan, N., Caballero, N., Hitchcock, E., @bitslab.bsky.social, & @jprestonslp.bsky.social (2025). Exploring perception of coarticulatory cues in #CAS and residual SSD: A pilot study. JComDis, 118, 106583. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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Redirecting
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November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social Highman, C., Wylie, K., Overby, M., @suze-freogirl.bsky.social, Thilakaratne, R., & @tricmc.bsky.social (2025). "I Just Want Him to Be Understood": Parent Perspectives... #CAS AJSLP, 34(6), 3263–3278. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

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“I Just Want Him to Be Understood”: Parent Perspectives of the Long-Term Desired Outcomes and Experiences of Early Intervention for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Purpose: This qualitative study explored the perspectives of parents of young children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) in terms of (a) lon...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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🆓🔓 in @ashajournals.bsky.social @eddychwong.bsky.social, Wong, M. N., Velleman, S. L., & Lai, E. M. C. (2025). Cantonese Oral and Speech Motor Assessment for Preschool Children with and without Speech Sound Disorders. AJSLP, 34(6), 3216–3237. doi.org/10.1044/2025...
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Cantonese Oral and Speech Motor Assessment for Preschool Children With and Without Speech Sound Disorders
Purpose: Oral and speech motor abilities are key components of assessments of Cantonese speakers with speech sound disorder (SSD), especially chi...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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🆓-ACCESS in @ashajournals.bsky.social Fujiki,R. B., Venkatraman,A., Godbout,R. A., & Thibeault,S. L. (2025). Instrumental Voice Evaluation in Children: What Are We Getting?. AJSLP, 34(6), 3076–3090. doi.org/10.1044/2025... How well do chn tolerate instrumental voice assessments?

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Instrumental Voice Evaluation in Children: What Are We Getting?
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the age at which children with voice disorders can complete videostroboscopy, acoustic, and aerod...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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💰🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Brittlebank, S., Gormley, J., Fiala, M., & Fosco, G. M. (2025). A Family Systems Approach to #augcom Service Delivery in the Inpatient Setting: Recommendations for SLPs. AJSLP, 34(6), 3042–3057. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

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A Family Systems Approach to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Service Delivery in the Inpatient Setting: Recommendations for Speech-Language Pathologists
Purpose: Family-centered care is necessary to deliver high-quality health care services. It is especially critical that family members are includ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs 📙 #EBPRoadmap by @carolinebowen.bsky.social & @pamelasnow.bsky.social with @pipbrandon.bsky.social Foreword @lovethatsmile.bsky.social Publisher @jandrpress.bsky.social www.jr-press.co.uk/product/evid...
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Book cover. "Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap" by Caroline Bowen and Pamela Snow, with Philippa Brandon. Foreword by Heidi Gregory.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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#devlangdis 🇪🇸 #DLDtoolbox in Spanish
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November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social @kellykoch.bsky.social Damico, H., Damico, J., & Nelson, R. (2025). Collaborative Relationships Between Families and Speech-Language Pathologists Within Family-Centered Early Intervention. AJSLP. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

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Collaborative Relationships Between Families and Speech-Language Pathologists Within Family-Centered Early Intervention
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to generate a theory, grounded in data, explaining the collaborative relationships between speech-language...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Hello 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, SLT advocates, parents of children & young people with #SLCN & other dedicated #childSPEECHdis #devLANGdis 💃🕺movers & shakers. The #INVESTinSLT push has important implications internationally. Please amplify📣 this message 🇬🇧 #budget2025🇬🇧 #budget25🇬🇧 @ukparliament.parliament.uk
RCSLT letterhead Statement on the need to Invest in SLT - 27 October 2025 This statement is issued on behalf of Mikey Akers, Louisa Akers, Francesca Beard, Samantha Berry, Dave Harford, Georgia Leckie, Karen Massey, Sharon Oliphant,Gillian Rudd, Pam Slater, and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.* Nine months ago today (27 October) the House of Commons debated the Invest in SLT petition. We were delighted that our briefing for the debate was supported by over 40 organisations and by the very powerful contributions from MPs of all parties calling on the Government to increase investment in services and better plan for the speech and language therapy workforce. We were also encouraged by the Government’s response and by the pledge the Government made to the Invest in SLT team in March that they would work with us on an action plan to tackle the issues affecting access to speech and language therapy. We regret that seven months on that action plan has not yet appeared. So, today, and with the Budget on 26 November in sight, we are calling on the Government to do two things: 1) Ensure that the forthcoming Budget provides sufficient resources to the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education, and other relevant Government Departments, so they can increase investment in speech and language therapy. 2) Publish the speech and language therapy action plan which they discussed with us in March. People of all ages with communication disability, difficulty, or difference, and those with eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties, and their families and carers have already waited too long for the barriers to accessing speech and language therapy to be removed. They should not have to wait any longer. Working with you, we will do all we can to make things better for people with communication and/or swallowing needs. But we need the Government to act – and to act now. Those we work with and represent deserve no less.
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social TUTORIAL
🇳🇱 @profsimonfisher.bsky.social 💐 (2025). Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery. JSLHR, 1–18. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

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Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery
Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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What a 🌟STAR🌟 @lisntell.bsky.social is,
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October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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@lintonbesser.bsky.social great episode! Sleep tight 😴
October 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻
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Why are SKEPTICS not more popular, and what could be done about it? edzardernst.com/2025/10/why-...
Why are SKEPTICS not more popular, and what could be done about it?
Skeptics are people who apply reason and critical thinking to evaluate claims and who advocate to rely on sound evidence, while resisting pseudoscience, superstition, and misinformation. Some of the o...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Lighterink, M., Bunta, F., Gifford, R. H., & Camarata, S. (2024). Consonant articulation accuracy in paediatric cochlear implant recipients. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 39(11), 1033–1053. doi.org/10.1080/0269...
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Consonant articulation accuracy in paediatric cochlear implant recipients
Hearing loss is a significant risk factor for delays in the spoken language development of children. The purpose of this study was to examine the distribution of articulation errors for English con...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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🆓🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Lewis, B.A., Miller, G.J., Benchek, P., Stein, C., & Iyengar, S.K. (2025). The Cleveland Family Speech & Reading Study: A Review of Long-Term Outcomes Linking Phenotypes & Genotypes for Speech Sound Disorders. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #childSPEECHdis
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The Cleveland Family Speech and Reading Study: A Review of Long-Term Outcomes Linking Phenotypes and Genotypes for Speech Sound Disorders
Purpose: This article reviews findings from the Cleveland Family Speech and Reading Study, a 25-year longitudinal study of speech sound disorders...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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🇳🇱Scheffer, A., Hakvoort, B., Keij, B., Ottow-Henning, E., van den Bergh, H., @logopedie.bsky.social, & Wijnen, F. (2025). Longitudinal relations between phonological and grammatical development of young children with #devlangdis. doi.org/10.1080/0269...

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Longitudinal relations between phonological and grammatical development of young children with developmental language disorder
Most children with a developmental language disorder (DLD) have persistent grammatical difficulties, and a considerable subgroup of these children also experience difficulties in their speech produ...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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🇫🇷 French team ask a VERY interesting question, "When do pragmatic abilities peak"? and answer it in a 🆓 🔓 #openacces @ashajournals.bsky.social article, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... SPOILER: They improve from late adolescence into early adulthood, plateauing ≈25–30; may↓after 70.
When Do Pragmatic Abilities Peak? Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates–French Version Psychometric Properties Across the Lifespan
Purpose: This study aims (a) to assess the psychometric properties of a French adaptation of the Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive ...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:51 AM