Professor Cristina McKean
@cristina-mckean.bsky.social
Speech and Language Therapist - Professor of Child Language Development and Disorders - fascinated by child development and passionate about tackling inequalities childhood experiences
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@ticld.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social be grateful for shares!
Want to join a vibrant research- active team committed to advancing knowledge with impact & supporting the development of excellent person-centred evidence based health professionals? We have a vacancy for an Assistant Professor in Speech & Language therapy :-) Details below, closing date Sept 17th
Join the School of Allied Health. Position - Assistant Professor in Speech and Language Therapy - Permanent. Further information for applicants and application material is available online from: ul.ie/hrvacancies/ #ULjobs
September 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Abdelwahab Floccia Forbes Alsiddiqi Al-Shdifat @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Odeh Trebacz Khattab 2025 Adaptation & Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Devel Inventories for Chn 8-30 & 30-48 Months in 🇪🇬EG 🇯🇴JO & 🇵🇸PS. JSLHR doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
Adaptation and Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Development Inventories for Children Aged 8–30 Months and 30–48 Months in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine
Purpose: Assessing early language skills through parental report is a cost-effective
way to screen for language delays when resources are scarce....
doi.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Abdelwahab Floccia Forbes Alsiddiqi Al-Shdifat @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Odeh Trebacz Khattab 2025 Adaptation & Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Devel Inventories for Chn 8-30 & 30-48 Months in 🇪🇬EG 🇯🇴JO & 🇵🇸PS. JSLHR doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
Delighted to see our LIVELY RCT published. Completing this during the pandemic was one of the hardest & most worthwhile experiences of my career The commitment of the RA team & educators was humbling.
And we found Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) works!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...
And we found Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) works!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...
A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Pre‐School Language Interventions—Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language Scheme
Background Children's language abilities set the stage for their education, psychosocial development and life chances across the life course. Aims To compare the efficacy of two preschool language...
dx.doi.org
April 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Delighted to see our LIVELY RCT published. Completing this during the pandemic was one of the hardest & most worthwhile experiences of my career The commitment of the RA team & educators was humbling.
And we found Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) works!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...
And we found Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) works!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Happy International women’s day to all the amazing women working in speech and language therapy and education practice and research - you are all legends and make lasting and important impact happen every day
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March 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Happy International women’s day to all the amazing women working in speech and language therapy and education practice and research - you are all legends and make lasting and important impact happen every day
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🚨We’re Hiring: Research Assistant🚨
Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.
🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe
#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.
🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe
#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
February 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨We’re Hiring: Research Assistant🚨
Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.
🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe
#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.
🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe
#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
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🔔 Join our Lunchtime Webinar Series tomorrow!
💡 Does investing in prevention reduce rates of children in care?
📅 4 March | ⏰ 12:30pm - 1:30pm
📍 Register now for in-person and online attendance bit.ly/41qvYud
💡 Does investing in prevention reduce rates of children in care?
📅 4 March | ⏰ 12:30pm - 1:30pm
📍 Register now for in-person and online attendance bit.ly/41qvYud
March 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🔔 Join our Lunchtime Webinar Series tomorrow!
💡 Does investing in prevention reduce rates of children in care?
📅 4 March | ⏰ 12:30pm - 1:30pm
📍 Register now for in-person and online attendance bit.ly/41qvYud
💡 Does investing in prevention reduce rates of children in care?
📅 4 March | ⏰ 12:30pm - 1:30pm
📍 Register now for in-person and online attendance bit.ly/41qvYud
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📢 Calling Early Years professionals! Take the next step in your career with our new online, part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education.
Applications are now open for entry in 2025. Find out more and start your application today ➡️ buff.ly/3D5o6Gb
Applications are now open for entry in 2025. Find out more and start your application today ➡️ buff.ly/3D5o6Gb
March 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 Calling Early Years professionals! Take the next step in your career with our new online, part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education.
Applications are now open for entry in 2025. Find out more and start your application today ➡️ buff.ly/3D5o6Gb
Applications are now open for entry in 2025. Find out more and start your application today ➡️ buff.ly/3D5o6Gb
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🎥 Missed our public seminar with Professor Cristina McKean last week?
Catch up now and watch the recording here! ➡️ bit.ly/4i6OVcd
Catch up now and watch the recording here! ➡️ bit.ly/4i6OVcd
March 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🎥 Missed our public seminar with Professor Cristina McKean last week?
Catch up now and watch the recording here! ➡️ bit.ly/4i6OVcd
Catch up now and watch the recording here! ➡️ bit.ly/4i6OVcd
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We recently came across this video and it is amazing. Frankie is an adult eith Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and hearing her experiences and views will open many people's eyes. #DevLangDis
Frankie is an incredible artist. You'll see some of her work in this video. Frankie also has DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) and dyslexia.
Frankie has a strong message for us. For young people with DLD, she suggests 'Surround yourself with people who get you.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vg...
Frankie has a strong message for us. For young people with DLD, she suggests 'Surround yourself with people who get you.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vg...
Frankie's story: A lived experience of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
YouTube video by RADLD
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We recently came across this video and it is amazing. Frankie is an adult eith Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and hearing her experiences and views will open many people's eyes. #DevLangDis
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What a speaker line up!
You've got until Monday and so don't miss the early bird conference rate.
Join us in person in Birmingham to learn all about Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis
naplic.org.uk/conferences
You've got until Monday and so don't miss the early bird conference rate.
Join us in person in Birmingham to learn all about Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis
naplic.org.uk/conferences
March 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What a speaker line up!
You've got until Monday and so don't miss the early bird conference rate.
Join us in person in Birmingham to learn all about Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis
naplic.org.uk/conferences
You've got until Monday and so don't miss the early bird conference rate.
Join us in person in Birmingham to learn all about Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis
naplic.org.uk/conferences
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#NAPLIC25 conference is coming up on 29/3, with early bird closing on 10/3. It's close to the end of the financial year and so your manager may have a few pennies they need to use up.
Make a case to you manager today!
#DevLangDis
www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
Make a case to you manager today!
#DevLangDis
www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
February 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#NAPLIC25 conference is coming up on 29/3, with early bird closing on 10/3. It's close to the end of the financial year and so your manager may have a few pennies they need to use up.
Make a case to you manager today!
#DevLangDis
www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
Make a case to you manager today!
#DevLangDis
www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
Come and join my growing team! An exciting opportunity to help us to evaluate the ELIM-I. Please repost @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social
🚨We’re Hiring: Research Assistant🚨
Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.
🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe
#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.
🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe
#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
February 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Come and join my growing team! An exciting opportunity to help us to evaluate the ELIM-I. Please repost @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social
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I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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We need to do more work on what we mean by “functional communication” - & how we measure and improve it: www.banterspeech.com.au/what-is-func...
What is functional communication? How can we assess, measure, and improve it? | Banter Speech & Language
The big picture: Functional communication is how someone actually uses language to communicate with others in the real world. It is often very different from how someone performs on a standardised lan...
www.banterspeech.com.au
February 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
We need to do more work on what we mean by “functional communication” - & how we measure and improve it: www.banterspeech.com.au/what-is-func...
Hello #slpeeps - I am looking for some bus story transcripts in the public domain for my students to try to analyse - does anyone know where I might find them? @helensc.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hello #slpeeps - I am looking for some bus story transcripts in the public domain for my students to try to analyse - does anyone know where I might find them? @helensc.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social
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🚀 Come work with myself and Prof Tim Rapley! We are hiring a Research Fellow in Implementation Science! Explore how early language interventions are implemented across England. 📍 Newcastle | 🕒 30-month role | 🔗 Apply now! | 7 Mar deadline
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#Hiring #Research
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#Hiring #Research
work4.northumbria.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🚀 Come work with myself and Prof Tim Rapley! We are hiring a Research Fellow in Implementation Science! Explore how early language interventions are implemented across England. 📍 Newcastle | 🕒 30-month role | 🔗 Apply now! | 7 Mar deadline
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#Hiring #Research
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#Hiring #Research
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We have now closed our survey on textbooks and taxonomies. Thank you to all those who completed and shared the survey, we are delighted with the response.
Stay tuned for further surveys and updates from the TICLD project!
#DevLangDis #ImpSci #BSkySPEECHIES
Stay tuned for further surveys and updates from the TICLD project!
#DevLangDis #ImpSci #BSkySPEECHIES
February 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We have now closed our survey on textbooks and taxonomies. Thank you to all those who completed and shared the survey, we are delighted with the response.
Stay tuned for further surveys and updates from the TICLD project!
#DevLangDis #ImpSci #BSkySPEECHIES
Stay tuned for further surveys and updates from the TICLD project!
#DevLangDis #ImpSci #BSkySPEECHIES
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We have only one response each from Finland, Sweden, and Austria, can you help us reach more countries? We are looking for academics or researchers who teach on #bskySPEECHIES #SLT #SLP degree courses to fill out this survey on #DevLangDis: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
As of today we only have two responses from non-English speaking countries. Please share the survey with your international colleagues so that we represent more than just the Anglophone countries.
Survey: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#DevLangDis #SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES
Survey: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#DevLangDis #SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES
February 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We have only one response each from Finland, Sweden, and Austria, can you help us reach more countries? We are looking for academics or researchers who teach on #bskySPEECHIES #SLT #SLP degree courses to fill out this survey on #DevLangDis: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
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Its #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek! Myself and Sarah Griffiths have worked together with clinicians, young people with #devlangdis and families to help mental health practitioners to make sessions more accessible for children with Developmental Language Disorder. Here are signs of DLD in MH settings:
February 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Its #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek! Myself and Sarah Griffiths have worked together with clinicians, young people with #devlangdis and families to help mental health practitioners to make sessions more accessible for children with Developmental Language Disorder. Here are signs of DLD in MH settings:
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKean
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis
www.cambridge.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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FAO all academics who teach child language interventions in both undergraduate and postgraduate SLT/SLP programmes. Please tell us what core book you use in your teaching of child language disorders. This work forms part of the TICLD programme of research. Survey: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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January 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
FAO all academics who teach child language interventions in both undergraduate and postgraduate SLT/SLP programmes. Please tell us what core book you use in your teaching of child language disorders. This work forms part of the TICLD programme of research. Survey: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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We are interested in non-English textbooks on #DevLangDis also, please fill in this survey if you are a #bskySPEECHIE #SLT #SLP academic or researcher who teaches on SLT/P degree programmes.
ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We are interested in non-English textbooks on #DevLangDis also, please fill in this survey if you are a #bskySPEECHIE #SLT #SLP academic or researcher who teaches on SLT/P degree programmes.
ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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@stephvanee-slt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Celebrating our new open access paper. Time to get reading folks!
Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties
doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties
doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non‐syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties
Background
Children born with cleft palate ± lip (CP ± L) are at risk of speech sound disorder (SSD). Up to 40% continue to have SSD at age 5–6 years. These difficulties are typically described as a.....
doi.org
January 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@stephvanee-slt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Celebrating our new open access paper. Time to get reading folks!
Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties
doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties
doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Hello @drhelenslt.bsky.social - can you help me find SLT and Education people here? I am not sure how to connect and I am sure you will have found a way 😄
October 5, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Hello @drhelenslt.bsky.social - can you help me find SLT and Education people here? I am not sure how to connect and I am sure you will have found a way 😄
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If you didn’t get chance to watch the 3MT today (Jo Baker did an excellent 3 minutes about SSD). You can still watch them on YouTube
Here is the voting link: audience.ahaslides.com/5av4b4mkah
Here is the voting link: audience.ahaslides.com/5av4b4mkah
October 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
If you didn’t get chance to watch the 3MT today (Jo Baker did an excellent 3 minutes about SSD). You can still watch them on YouTube
Here is the voting link: audience.ahaslides.com/5av4b4mkah
Here is the voting link: audience.ahaslides.com/5av4b4mkah