Dr Lucy Benjamin

Our paper “Investigating the effectiveness of idiom interventions for 9-16 year olds with DLD #devlangdis “ has been assigned to an issue of @ijlcd 🥳 @SusanEbbels Thanks to those who have read/ given us feedback on the study. 👍Link below. Please share. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Exciting opportunity to join a friendly & forward thinking SLT Service within the beautiful Scottish Borders. We are looking for 2 B5s who are keen to start their SLT careers in a supportive environment apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… @QMU_SLT @Strath_SLT @BethE_SLT @SltRos @NHSBorders

Our goal is to make sure SLPs can stay up-to-date with the current evidence without having to spend HOURS scouring journals & reading research papers. We scout over 300 journals monthly, and hundreds more throughout the year so we can find you the current clinical takeaways.

Our article on the effectiveness of vocational vocabulary intervention for college-aged students (16-19 yrs) with DLD at @MoorHouseSLCN is now published online Co-authors: @laurenbanni @Campbell_Chats @Bry_Holl #DevLangDis #vocabulary @MHResTrain onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

@SusanEbbels Oh no!! I just realised this error 🤦‍♀️ yes phd findings! 🤪

@LucyBenjaminSLT I presume you will be sharing PhD findings? Or are you talking about night wear???😂

Looking forward to sharing my pjs findings at this event next week 👍 @CSLIR_UCL

@LenaMBlott If you do anything for 1 or 4 year olds (at present) then add me to a recruitment list for my two girls.

Are you a parent of a child aged 5-11? We need children to help us test our new language game! We will ask you some questions about your child’s experience and they will get a certificate for contributing to science! Sign up here: bit.ly/3RrqDgh

We are making our own podcast! Really looking forward to launch it in august. 1st episode about how to support children with LD at school start

@Suze_Freogirl Thank you for this @Suze_freogirl . Great anecdote: When revising for exams/learning a new skill should we a) cram all at once (like massed intervention) or b) practise little and often *over time* (distributed/spaced intervention). Which do you think works best for you? 🤔

@LucyBenjaminSLT I have enjoyed learningscientists.org/podcast-episod… on this topic, maybe this is particularly of interest here learningscientists.org/learning-scien…

Can anyone suggest a reference/evidence that indicates whether or not consolidation time between therapy “blocks” is beneficial, for any paediatric slt client group? *To provide rolling therapy at the cost of those on the waiting list or not…?* #SLTchat

@KatieRGordon It seems that although many children are on our caseloads for multiple periods of treatment/therapy (targeting various areas) research tends to focus on effectiveness of individual blocks/methods but not on the accumulation of these & effects of spacing between 'therapy blocks.'

@KatieRGordon Summary suggests: low-intensity (1 x weekly or less) and high-dose (12 sessions) (duration around 12 weeks) is optimum for primary school age (mean age 8) working on language outcomes (not speech). Better than higher intensity and much lower or higher dose/duration.

Conclusion: a training regimen characterised by spaced intervals and moderate repetition will optimally benefit lexical learning in SLI. ⚠️ these are my summaries after a quick skim read.

discussion notes “the SLI children benefitted significantly from distributed training” (breaks rather than massed). “..results from the analyses are consistent with previous findings in the literature.” Multiple closely spaced sxs especially benefits leaning in toddlers w SLI.

@KatieRGordon thank you for this. Will check it out.

@EliseLightbody Yes, your point is exactly what I am thinking elise. In our team we see a child until they don't need our regular input (for whatever reason) then discharge (even if we think/know they will need our support again in future). = some kids have long wait then long therapy 'blocks.'

@LucyBenjaminSLT I tweeted about this a while ago too and didn’t get much response. Idk whether consolidation periods compound the issue due to reduction of dosage intensity meaning cases open longer, or whether we are wasting time on dosage when they need consolidation! Agree about ReST though