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Sirpa Tarvainen
@sirpatarvainen.bsky.social
PhD researcher, former chair of the Finnish Association of SLTs, entrepreneur. Reseach on oral comprehension interventions in children with or at risk for #DevLangDis. 🌍

http://www.takingturns.eu/
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Connect with the Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) community on BlueSky with our #DevLangDis start pack.
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July 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Now open access:

Intervention factors associated with efficacy, when targeting oral language comprehension of children with or at risk for (Developmental) Language Disorder: A meta-analysis

#DevLangDis #WeSpeechies #SLP #SLT #SLPeeps #slp2be

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Intervention factors associated with efficacy, when targeting oral language comprehension of children with or at risk for (Developmental) Language Disorder: A meta‐analysis
Background Language interventions are complex behavioural interventions, making it difficult to distinguish the specific factors contributing to efficacy. The efficacy of oral language comprehension...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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🆓🔓 in @ashajournals.bsky.social van Witteloostuijn, M., Haggiyannes, A., de Bree, E., & Blom, E. (2025). Parental Input and Its Relationship With Language Outcomes in Children With (Suspected) #DevLangDis A Systematic Review. JSLHR, 68(4), 1982–2005. doi.org/10.1044/2024...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
Parental Input and Its Relationship With Language Outcomes in Children With (Suspected) Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review
Purpose: It is widely acknowledged that parental input plays an important role in typical language development. Less is known about the input pro...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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My colleagues at IALP are undertaking a study of digital literacy for speech pathologists. Please see below for details.

redcap.link/a7g1kcxg

@mwslp.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Marilyn Nippold and Erin Marr created a language arts program, named, 'Philosophy for Adolescents' + it's available entirely FREE from here: asha.figshare.com/articles/onl...

#DLD #DevelopmentalLanguageDisorder #WeSpeechies
Philosophy for Adolescents (Nippold & Marr, 2022)
Purpose: In this clinical focus article, we discuss the nature of critical thinking, its importance for adolescents, and its interaction with later language development. We also introduce a language a...
asha.figshare.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New research on intervention factors associated with efficacy in comprehension interventions.

Authors @sirpatarvainen.bsky.social, @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social, Granroth-Wilding, H., Stolt, S., & Launonen, K.

doi.org/10.1111/1460...

To be read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
Intervention factors associated with efficacy, when targeting oral language comprehension of children with or at risk for (Developmental) Language Disorder: A meta‐analysis
Background Language interventions are complex behavioural interventions, making it difficult to distinguish the specific factors contributing to efficacy. The efficacy of oral language comprehension...
doi.org
March 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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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
March 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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The Journal of Child #Language is seeking submissions for its upcoming special issue on 'Later language development'. Send in your submissions by 18 July 2025!
Learn more:
🔗 cup.org/42YQIeJ

#psycholinguistics @iasclchildlang.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Anyone interested in supporting early language development, this is for you!
📢 Join Professor Cristina Mckean for her inaugural lecture on 3 March, 'Creating the conditions for robust early language development'

📅 3 March
⌚ 5pm

Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389
Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The problem seems to be only on mobile device, with a computer the link works.
Sounds good!

However, the online registration link does not seen to work. Or is it just me?
February 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Did you miss the RCSLT #IJLCDWinterLecture by @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social and @cristina-mckean.bsky.social? If so the slides are available below!

#DevLangDis #bskySPEECHIES #ImpSci
February 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Two of our members, @cristina-mckean.bsky.social and @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social are delivering the RCSLT IJLCD winter lecture tomorrow morning, details available here: www.rcslt.org/events/ijlcd...

Sign up to learn more about dosage, active ingredients and #DevLangDis #bskySPEECHIES
IJLCD winter lecture | RCSLT
www.rcslt.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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!
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
February 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The third article of my dissertation is accepted! 🤩

Follow this space to hear about intervention factors associated with efficacy in oral language comprehension interventions.

#DevLangDis
January 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The 1st Speech and Language Therapy starter pack is full🙌🏻 Still loads of SLT/SLPs joining so who is going to ut together the second?! go.bsky.app/QKf7XWq
November 22, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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There is now a Facebook group for adults with DLD. A great opportunity for those with DLD to meet others.

www.facebook.com/groups/conne...

So please share with anyone who might be interested. #DevLangDis
Redirecting...
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November 26, 2024 at 5:40 PM
The first article of my dissertation is a systematic scoping review on oral language comprehension interventions for 1-8-year-old children with (developmental) language disorder or language difficulties. It is open access and can be found here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 20, 2024 at 9:28 AM
The second article of my dissertation is a systematic scoping review on oral language comprehension interventions for school-age children and adolescents with #DevLangDis. It is open access and can be found here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 20, 2024 at 9:25 AM
To inform colleagues on evidence-based interventions for supporting oral comprehension, I give webinars based on our research. Info on the webinars can be found here: www.takingturns.eu/courses/ .
Courses
Courses Oral language comprehension interventions in children and adolescents with language disorders or difficulties Read more and sign up > Oral language comprehension interventions in chi...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
The literature reviews conducted together with my supervisors Suvi Stolt & Kaisa Launonen indicated large variation in the efficacy of comprehension interventions. The reasons for this variation are largely unknown.
The intervention factors associated with efficacy is the topic of my third article.
November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM