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A very inspiring article about how teachers and SaLTs can work together 'at the coalface' - and what might help address the complex challenges of trust and shared understanding journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… @dawquigley would you mind following me so I can message you? Thank you!

We’re kicking off the #RCSLTAwards2024 with the RCSLT Fellowships! Congratulations to: Maria Luscombe, Professor Cristina McKean & Professor Lindsay Pennington. Thank you all for your invaluable contribution to the profession. #slpeeps #speechies #speechtherapy

If you are in Newcastle on Thursday afternoon please come along

Thanks to @DrJackcl @cristina_mckean @DrHelenSLT @lainee_ashton Sean Pert, Carolyn Letts, Emily Preston, Kate Conn and Naomi Rose

The first LIVELY paper is out looking at the changes early years settings made in early language and communication support in response to covid restrictions in the uk and learning from that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Are you an Arabic-speaking SLT in the UK? Do you want to develop resources to support families and professionals working with Arabic-speaking children in Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank and Egypt? Please contact us @bulbul_LangDev. Paid work available till Jan 2025 @LondonBilCEN

Posters from the @HVDL_Foundation conference are now on the LIVELY website research.ncl.ac.uk/lively/publica…

@slt_fi The work of an amazing team building on work led by Prof James Law with Prof Sue Roulstone, Rose Watson, Jenna Charlton, Caitlin Holme. Emily Preston, Vicky Gilroy and Christine Jack @DrJackcl

👶Supporting early language development 👶 We are delighted to launch our website & resources to support ELIM-I use in practice developed in partnership with @iHealthVisiting & @bbcthp. Please take a look at the 'super communicator' resources & guidance research.ncl.ac.uk/elim-i/elim-i/…

2/2 If anyone has school contacts (Principals, teachers) in Kent, Leeds or Newcastle (or close by these areas) we would really appreciate help!! We need only 2 days in each school, we are offering training @cristina_mckean @deevybee please retweet

1/2 Trying to make Test of Complex syntax (TECS-E)@tecs_e available to the UK but can’t get into schools – contacted 50 primary schools but not one response. Cannot get to speak to a single head teacher. @anacbuckley @cristina_mckean @deevybee

Well it's official. In September I will be moving to take up a chair at the University of Oxford Education Department to build a program of work focussed on SEND. I'm so very excited for this new opportunity & also sad to be leaving fabulous, colleagues friends & students @SLSncl

Not so much interested in the shift to online but in how practitioners supported children in the setting, or supported parents to work with children at home.

Working on a paper about support for language development in early years settings during COVID, does anyone have any links to information about how teaching changed?

Tiny Happy People answer questions about speech and language development - bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-peo…

One of our lab alumni, Jalal Al-Tamimi (@beppeFusilli) had his HDR in Paris on the 24th of Nov. HDRs are the highest qualifications in France, and Jalal sailed through his defence, which included our very own @ghadakhattabsls on the jury😀

So exciting to see our BEST paper led by Ana Trebacz published in @IJLCD - Building Early Sentences Therapy is effective in improving expressive language standard scores with large effect size compared to Treatment as usual & sign is an active ingredient onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@LIVELY_SLS @SeanPert @DrHelenSLT We are working on our outcome paper where we compare BEST to and Adapted version of DLS in a randomise controlled trial - watch this space!

Details of BEST and free downloadable manual and materials can be found on the @LIVELY_SLS website - we are so excited to get this size of effects with such low dosage (Group intervention 15 minutes per week 2x per week for 8 weeks) - @SeanPert @DrHelenSLT research.ncl.ac.uk/lively/interve…