Dower and Associates, Inc.
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Speech/Language, Applied Behavior Analysis & Education Services in Loudoun County (VA)
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🚨 Only 5 days left until #SPABACon25 — the world’s only conference celebrating collaboration between Speech-Language Pathologists and Behavior Analysts!
2025 Theme: Meaningful Progress Through Practical Application
💡Full day of interprofessional learning, networking, & CEUs on Friday Oct 24, 2025!
2025 Theme: Meaningful Progress Through Practical Application
💡Full day of interprofessional learning, networking, & CEUs on Friday Oct 24, 2025!
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🚨 Only 5 days left until #SPABACon25 — the world’s only conference celebrating collaboration between Speech-Language Pathologists and Behavior Analysts!
2025 Theme: Meaningful Progress Through Practical Application
💡Full day of interprofessional learning, networking, & CEUs on Friday Oct 24, 2025!
2025 Theme: Meaningful Progress Through Practical Application
💡Full day of interprofessional learning, networking, & CEUs on Friday Oct 24, 2025!
#SPABA is not on Bluesky, so I am dropping this for the organization!
#SPABACon25 is this Friday - 6.5 ACE CEUs available (3.5 ETH) ( synchronous & asynchronous attendance) and ASHA General Learning CEs available for synchronous attendance.
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#SPABACon25 is this Friday - 6.5 ACE CEUs available (3.5 ETH) ( synchronous & asynchronous attendance) and ASHA General Learning CEs available for synchronous attendance.
behaviorlive.com/conferences/...
October 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#SPABA is not on Bluesky, so I am dropping this for the organization!
#SPABACon25 is this Friday - 6.5 ACE CEUs available (3.5 ETH) ( synchronous & asynchronous attendance) and ASHA General Learning CEs available for synchronous attendance.
behaviorlive.com/conferences/...
#SPABACon25 is this Friday - 6.5 ACE CEUs available (3.5 ETH) ( synchronous & asynchronous attendance) and ASHA General Learning CEs available for synchronous attendance.
behaviorlive.com/conferences/...
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A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
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Invisible Disability, Visible Damage: The Systemic Failure to Identify Language Disorders
Students with DLD are missed when evaluations overlook language. We need assessments that reflect real academic demands. tatyanaelleseff.com/systemic-fai... #bskySPEECHIES
Students with DLD are missed when evaluations overlook language. We need assessments that reflect real academic demands. tatyanaelleseff.com/systemic-fai... #bskySPEECHIES
August 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Invisible Disability, Visible Damage: The Systemic Failure to Identify Language Disorders
Students with DLD are missed when evaluations overlook language. We need assessments that reflect real academic demands. tatyanaelleseff.com/systemic-fai... #bskySPEECHIES
Students with DLD are missed when evaluations overlook language. We need assessments that reflect real academic demands. tatyanaelleseff.com/systemic-fai... #bskySPEECHIES
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Orton-Gillingham (OG) Alone Won’t Cut It: What the Research Actually Shows About Helping Struggling Readers tatyanaelleseff.com/og-limitatio...
July 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Orton-Gillingham (OG) Alone Won’t Cut It: What the Research Actually Shows About Helping Struggling Readers tatyanaelleseff.com/og-limitatio...
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Selling Out Speech Pathology: How Profit-Driven Programs, Costly Certifications, and Low-Evidence Fads Are Undermining Evidence-Based Practice
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July 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Selling Out Speech Pathology: How Profit-Driven Programs, Costly Certifications, and Low-Evidence Fads Are Undermining Evidence-Based Practice
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tatyanaelleseff.com/selling-out-...
Calling all #SLP and #ABA students and practitioners! Apply for a #SPABA Award in research, application, or dissemination! More information here: www.behavioralspeech.com/spaba-annual... #bridgetheSLPandABAfields
June 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Calling all #SLP and #ABA students and practitioners! Apply for a #SPABA Award in research, application, or dissemination! More information here: www.behavioralspeech.com/spaba-annual... #bridgetheSLPandABAfields
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What Kind of Verbal Operant is “Right?” by author Dr. David Palmer
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What Kind of Verbal Operant is “Right?”
I am not the first person to wonder, “What is the function of asking Right? in the middle of a sustained flow of verbal behavior?” As the internet is abuzz with remarks about the recent surge of
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April 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What Kind of Verbal Operant is “Right?” by author Dr. David Palmer
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Join ABAI in Washington, DC for our 51st Annual Convention in May! Here is one of our many invited presentations:
Why I Am a Behavior Analyst and an Advocate for Behavior Analysis (Are You?) with Dr. William H. Ahearn
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Why I Am a Behavior Analyst and an Advocate for Behavior Analysis (Are You?) with Dr. William H. Ahearn
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March 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Join ABAI in Washington, DC for our 51st Annual Convention in May! Here is one of our many invited presentations:
Why I Am a Behavior Analyst and an Advocate for Behavior Analysis (Are You?) with Dr. William H. Ahearn
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Why I Am a Behavior Analyst and an Advocate for Behavior Analysis (Are You?) with Dr. William H. Ahearn
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Must get busy writing my abstracts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and Blanc’s #NaturalLanguageAcquisition for #ASHA2025
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March 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Must get busy writing my abstracts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and Blanc’s #NaturalLanguageAcquisition for #ASHA2025
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I also think people need to know about the one treatment design study on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and how we haven’t been allowed to read it because of the supervision team gatekeeping it to closed access and not obtainable from the thesis library.
Weirdly controlling of scientific evidence.
Weirdly controlling of scientific evidence.
March 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I also think people need to know about the one treatment design study on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and how we haven’t been allowed to read it because of the supervision team gatekeeping it to closed access and not obtainable from the thesis library.
Weirdly controlling of scientific evidence.
Weirdly controlling of scientific evidence.
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Re InformedSLP views on GLP (more supportive than not):
“one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others”
“none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening”.
“one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others”
“none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening”.
Meant to post this last week! The "informed SLP" attempts to discuss my paper on gestalt language processing.
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The Informed SLP attempts to discuss my paper on Gestalt Language Processing
Again, I continue to be amazed at what passes for debate these days. Whatever happened to discussing the actual content of the publications ...
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February 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Re InformedSLP views on GLP (more supportive than not):
“one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others”
“none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening”.
“one has to wonder whether Evans holds herself to the same communicative standards to which she holds others”
“none of us can control the interpretations of those who have already made up their minds and aren't capable of actually listening”.
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Colour tweak for Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press. The grass is now green, not yellow! @pipbrandon.bsky.social
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 📙 #EBPRoadmap #parents #teachers
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 📙 #EBPRoadmap #parents #teachers
December 17, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Colour tweak for Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press. The grass is now green, not yellow! @pipbrandon.bsky.social
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 📙 #EBPRoadmap #parents #teachers
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 📙 #EBPRoadmap #parents #teachers
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So many great questions at the @coursebeetle.bsky.social event tonight on #GLP #NLA - engaged group recognising the complexity inherent in what is going on both in discourse online and the lack of research.
Looking forward to delivering a few difficult messages about #GestaltLanguageProcessing and particularly the results of our review of #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (described by Marge Blanc) tonight for the UK audience - almost 200 people registered so should be VERY interesting to hear their views.
March 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
So many great questions at the @coursebeetle.bsky.social event tonight on #GLP #NLA - engaged group recognising the complexity inherent in what is going on both in discourse online and the lack of research.
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Important lecture #FacilitatedCommunication #TheTelepathyTapes @stuartvyse.bsky.social @fcisnotscience.bsky.social "In my opinion ...this young mans rights are being violated..not loved for who he really is, he is instead being turned into a fantasy for his parents." www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhL-...
The Latest in Autism Claptrap | Stuart Vyse
YouTube video by Center for Inquiry
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February 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Important lecture #FacilitatedCommunication #TheTelepathyTapes @stuartvyse.bsky.social @fcisnotscience.bsky.social "In my opinion ...this young mans rights are being violated..not loved for who he really is, he is instead being turned into a fantasy for his parents." www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhL-...
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If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It
Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...
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January 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
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🦋 #bskySPEECHIES ⏬Download "How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians" in #AJSLP kindly made 🆓 by @ashajournals.bsky.social for 2 weeks. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... It'll be 🔓💰locked again soon.
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES ⏬Download "How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians" in #AJSLP kindly made 🆓 by @ashajournals.bsky.social for 2 weeks. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... It'll be 🔓💰locked again soon.
How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians
Purpose: This tutorial will provide speech-language pathologists with practical
considerations and pragmatic tools for interpreting and criticall...
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January 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
‼️REMINDER ⁉️REMINDER ‼️REMINDER
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES ⏬Download "How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians" in #AJSLP kindly made 🆓 by @ashajournals.bsky.social for 2 weeks. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... It'll be 🔓💰locked again soon.
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES ⏬Download "How to Interpret and Evaluate a Meta-Analysis in the Field of Speech-Language Pathology: A Tutorial for Clinicians" in #AJSLP kindly made 🆓 by @ashajournals.bsky.social for 2 weeks. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... It'll be 🔓💰locked again soon.
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The best critique so far of this extremely problematic podcast!
My latest piece for Skeptical Inquirer is about the enormously popular and very troubling podcast, The Telepathy Tapes. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...
The Telepathy Tapes: A Dangerous Cornucopia of Pseudoscience | Skeptical Inquirer
The New Year started badly. I woke on January 1 to discover that The Telepathy Tapes was the most popular podcast in the United States on both the Spotify a ...
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January 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The best critique so far of this extremely problematic podcast!
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Tragic that Nobel Laureate Arthur Schawlow (1981 Physics Nobel Prize for co-invention of the laser)was won over by FC for his #autistic son, actively promoted it, appearing in Frontline's The Prisoners of Silence 1994. @fcisnotscience.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @susangerbic.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Tragic that Nobel Laureate Arthur Schawlow (1981 Physics Nobel Prize for co-invention of the laser)was won over by FC for his #autistic son, actively promoted it, appearing in Frontline's The Prisoners of Silence 1994. @fcisnotscience.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @susangerbic.bsky.social
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Our protocol for a Meta-Narrative Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing & #NaturalLanguageAcquisition
Registered on PROSPERO
www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...
“What are the features and outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”
Broad inclusion criteria.
Registered on PROSPERO
www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...
“What are the features and outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”
Broad inclusion criteria.
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination is a department of the University of York and is part of the National Institute for Health Research.
CRD undertakes high quality systematic reviews that evaluate the effects of health and social care interventions and the delivery and organisation of health care.
www.crd.york.ac.uk
December 31, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Our protocol for a Meta-Narrative Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing & #NaturalLanguageAcquisition
Registered on PROSPERO
www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...
“What are the features and outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”
Broad inclusion criteria.
Registered on PROSPERO
www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...
“What are the features and outcomes of GLP/NLA related therapies for minimally or non-speaking individuals?”
Broad inclusion criteria.
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“Adults have lowered the bar for how much you should read as a teenager so far that the bar cannot be found. There are many educators who have the mindset that you shouldn't teach whole books because kids just won't read them.” www.upworthy.com/teacher-reve...
Teacher reveals the 'really obvious' reason teens no longer read. It's not just the phones.
"Kids who read are just built different."
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December 26, 2024 at 3:20 PM
“Adults have lowered the bar for how much you should read as a teenager so far that the bar cannot be found. There are many educators who have the mindset that you shouldn't teach whole books because kids just won't read them.” www.upworthy.com/teacher-reve...
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Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press.
📙 #EBPRoadmap written for #parents #teachers & #youngpeople about #children and YP with additional support needs. 🦋 #bskySpeechies
📙 #EBPRoadmap written for #parents #teachers & #youngpeople about #children and YP with additional support needs. 🦋 #bskySpeechies
October 27, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Bowen, C., & Snow, P., with Brandon, P. (expected UK Spring, 2025). Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs: The Roadmap. J&R Press.
📙 #EBPRoadmap written for #parents #teachers & #youngpeople about #children and YP with additional support needs. 🦋 #bskySpeechies
📙 #EBPRoadmap written for #parents #teachers & #youngpeople about #children and YP with additional support needs. 🦋 #bskySpeechies
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It’s here 📗 the Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)
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Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)
Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents...
Purpose of the Review This systematic review aimed to determine whether interventions related to Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA) are effective for individuals wi...
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December 10, 2024 at 3:38 AM
It’s here 📗 the Systematic Review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social
Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)
@lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social
Look forward to your emails ABCD feedback! (Accurate, Balanced, Critical, Depersonalised)