Not to sound like an old person, but it’s very noticeable coming back from 9 months mat leave that literally every program now has an AI assistant that the company are painfully desperate for you to use…
Made it one week before baby was struck down with flu. So today’s work is coming from my kitchen counter while the snotty baby sleeps in a carrier.
Nothing says welcome back to work like hunting for non-expired license codes for SPSS and NVivo…
I’ve been quiet on here while I’ve been off with this fluffy egg for 9 months. Back to work next week and while I love my job I’m going to miss all our time together! And I hope I can find two brain cells to rub together… ☕️ 🧠 😴
Coming out of maternity leave cloud so apologies for exceptionally late like of this post 😂 hooray!!
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Feel free to share - our guide is appropriate for mental health professionals working with adults or children (it’s important to remember many children with language problems continue to have communication needs as adults)
Great to see the link between language and mental health considered on the BBC - and amazing of Siouxsie to share her experiences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We have video guides for mental health practitioners about language problems and mental health - see below!
We need your help!
We are looking for any professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder.
Our networks relate to children, so please help get our survey about setting up a UK wide network to those who work with adults with #DevLangDis
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NeuroDevelopmental
Annual Seminar
**26th June 2025**
@citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social
@citystgeorges.bsky.social
Keynote speakers:
*Dr Roisin Perry (UCL)
*Prof @mimhanley.bsky.social (Durham)
Abstract deadline extended to *April 11th!*
#NDAS2025 #Psychology #Autism #DevLangDis #ADHD #Dyslexia
Dingley’s Promise work to ensure the voices of children under 5 with SEND and families are heard, and to push for policy change.
If you have a child aged 0-5 with SEND please complete the short research survey below to ensure your voice is heard👇
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We are recruiting for two Advisory Editors at Autism!
Deadline for expressions of interest is April 25th. For full details, please see the link
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💬 'Over the many years I’ve worked in mental health, I can’t remember a single discussion about the one factor schools can affect: language'
Book cover: Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes
I’m so excited to share the new paperback cover for Coming Of Age 🌟
I think it hints at how varied our adolescent experiences can be, and also – maybe this is stretching it a bit – how much adolescents can influence each other. Also SHAPES
Out on 10 July 🤠
Info: tinyurl.com/zkur28wa
Know an Aussie child in Yr 6? Please help us understand how to support kids as they transition to high school! Kids get a gift voucher. Parents get a personalised report of their child's language/reading. Participation can be online or in-person. Express interest at tinyurl.com/2xwjsebc. #DevLangDis
Naplic conference is coming up soon!
Book your place and join us for an inspiring day. Research, lived experience and great networking.
www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
This very accurately represents my current mental state of absolute denial that I am a week and a half before the start of my maternity leave with approx 8 million projects to tie up. At least I’ve prepared an egg hunt for toddlers for the weekend.
My MSc student Jess is looking for autistic and non-autistic people to take part in her study. If you have 20 mins spare and fancy taking part it would be hugely appreciated!
Very interesting thread on SEND
I'll be covering this morning's Education Select Committee session on solving the SEND crisis.
MPs will be hearing from Annamarie Hassall, CEO of Nasen, and @mmulholland.bsky.social SEND & inclusion specialist at the ASCL, and a number of other witnesses.
🧵below:
We will be recruiting a #SLT #SLP as the main researcher on the project soon! Watch this space! #DevLangDis #Neurodiversity Please RT to spread the word!
Hooray!!!
Postdoc opening in 🇨🇦 with myself and @charlierioux.bsky.social to look at trajectories of substance use in pregnancy and child outcomes.
for more info see: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1577489...
The Neurodevelopmental Annual Seminar #NDAS2025 is being held @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social this year on 26th June! Call for abstracts below, please come and join us 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿
#psychology #BSkySpeechies #SLPeeps #BlueskySpeechies
Excited to be recruiting a Senior Peer Research Coordinator (qual) to support our new Wellcome-funded project on gender inequalities in youth mental health!
Will be based at @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social & with me at @kingscsmh.bsky.social.
Deadline 21st Mar, 9am.
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Do you want to understand more about the history, medications and public awareness of #ADHD? Join our ADHD: Past, Present and Future panel discussion on Thursday 20 March from 17.30-18.30. #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
Register 👉 bit.ly/4hLVPU1
And the meeting led to some of us writing a short editorial for the journal @journalautism.bsky.social about open research practices and autism research…
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Thanks! We also used the prize funds to pay participants for a project exploring the views of research data sharing amongst autistic adults and parents of autistic people which are just writing up now :)
Quite interesting - I did my first media appearance this week and was really nervous about whether I’d said things poorly that might mean people missed the point etc etc - but then one of the few things I felt very strongly about and said clearly “we need to say this caveat” get edited out 🙃
Clip from front cover of book showing the title 'Language for Behaviour and Emotions' A practical guide to working with children and young people.
We receive regular rave feedback about 'Language for Behaviour and Emotions', but you can learn to use it even better on one of our courses.
The next 2 day course starts on March 5th, also in May. @melaniespeechie.bsky.social @lang4think.bsky.social
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