Thanks so much!

ASHA is always a special time! This year, I was truly honored to be recognized as one of the recipients of the Early Career Contributions in Research Award. I am grateful to all who celebrated with me and to everyone whose mentorship and collaboration has contributed to my success ✨🫶🥂! #ASHA2025

Speech-Language Therapists' Training, Confidence, and Barriers When Serving Bilingual Children: Development and Application of a National Survey Purpose: Most pediatric speech-language therapists (SLTs) will serve bilingual children. This article reports findings from the National Survey o...

Survey results reveal the continued need to support pre-service and practicing speech-language therapists to enhance their competence and confidence when assessing and treating bilingual children.

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@meaghanamckenna.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social

Understanding Speech-Language Pathologists' Misconceptions About Multi-Tiered System of Supports: Initial Exploration From a Focus Group Analysis Purpose: While there is overwhelming support from clinical texts, journal articles, and our national organization for the implementation of multi...

Revelationary and 🆓🔓 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Sylvan, L., & @meaghanamckenna.bsky.social (2025). Understanding (🏫🎒19 school-based) SLPs' Misconceptions About Multi-Tiered System of Supports: Initial Exploration From a Focus Group Analysis. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

In addition to our flyers on DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) for teachers and parents, we have now created some for activity leaders and coaches.

All flyers downloadable from: www.moorhouseinstitute.com/dld-resources/

#DevLangDis #SLCN

New article with Lesley Sylvan that explores the important influence of belief systems, mindsets, and misconceptions on implementation practices related to MTSS. Thanks to all of the SLPs who supported this project! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

🌟 New article: rdcu.be/eeVRw 🌟 Thank you to the educational professionals who spoke openly with us about the challenges they experience teaching K-2 writing while also describing the promising practices they implement evidencing their commitment to high quality early writing instruction.

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Assessment for Effective Intervention is now officially accepting Registered Reports and Research-to-Practice manuscripts. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

No, I'm at a different conference that week.

We have our answer...meeting is canceled, details about rescheduling the meeting will follow soon. Now time to cancel all the fights!

My rescheduled flight for this afternoon was canceled, trying again on a different airline tonight. Hope to see you there!!!

Did you know that the FCRR student center activities (which are also evidence-based) are in digital game format now too? games.fcrr.org#/

DLD Video Project The Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children is leading a project that will result in a library of Ask the Researcher videos. Each video will be 2-3 min in leng...

Help us plan for our new DLD "Ask a Researcher" video library! 📽️ Each video (2-3min) will highlight one question related to the field of SPED/LD and feature experts responding to the question. What are the questions you would like to see addressed? Share ideas here👇🏼 @teachingld.bsky.social

Practice Recommendations: 1. Co-establish, model, and teach clear expectations for student behavior consistent with schoolwide expectations. (strong evidence) 2. Remind students to engage in expected behaviors. (strong evidence) 3. Acknowledge students for demonstrating expected behaviors through positive attention, praise, and rewards. (strong evidence) 4. Offer instructional choices to students to increase engagement and agency. (moderate evidence) 5. Provide students frequent and varying opportunities to respond to and engage in activities. (moderate evidence) 6. Teach students to monitor and reflect on their own behavior. (moderate evidence) 7. Use behavior ratings to provide feedback to students (strong evidence)

New practice guide! Teacher-Delivered Behavioral Interventions in Grades K-5 ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/Pra...

Has 7 recommendations (shown below) and 6 themes (in following posts). #EdResearch #EduSky

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Loving the #ASHA2024 Theme: ELEVATE! In a time where negativity and tearing others down is normalized, we must push back. Lift one another up! Encourage the endeavors of those around us. Celebrate others' success. #ELEVATE! #SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES

Thanks for creating this! I would like to be added.

<em>British Journal of Educational Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Background Learning to write the complex academic language (AL) associated with a discipline (like science) is a critical task in education, with middle school being a key developmental period. Howe.....

A new breakthrough in writing assessment by Dr. Cherish Sarmiento & my team was just published in British Journal of Educational Psychology. We’ve been psyched about this finding for a couple of years and happy to have it published open access. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

If you see this, please repost with a favorite photo of the sky that you’ve taken recently

I made a starter pack. Feels weird because I know I've forgotten folks, so please let me know if you want on (or off!). Looking forward to this space being more active!

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Congrats on your submission!!!

New article: rdcu.be/dvV24 with
@DrGerde and @nikki_g_b! These survey results leave us with much to consider as we develop and study approaches to writing assessment in the earliest elementary grades.