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Abstract submissions for #CLS2026 are closing soon. We welcome submissions from academics and early-career researchers (including PhD students and clinical academics) across all areas of child language development. #DevLangDis #SLT #SLCN
🗓 Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 (midnight)

A new year reminder to submit your abstract to join us in London this summer for the Child Language Symposium!
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

Child Language Symposia is an international conference that brings together scholars working on all aspects of child language development. It will be hosted by UCL in London on 6–7 July 2026. The call for abstracts is now open! tinyurl.com/ye6kpxmy

A step forward for Developmental Language Disorder #DLDday

Identifying and supporting the needs of children with SEND in mainstream settings Findings from a series of rapid evidence assessments on what works to identify and support the needs of children and young people with SEND in mainstream and early years settings.

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Check out our new reports for teachers, schools, specialists & policymakers supporting children with #SEND in mainstream schools.
Our #SLCN report covers:
✏️ Early identification
✏️ Classroom strategies & interventions
✏️ Collaboration with families & specialists
#DevLangDis

📢 Calling UK parents of children with dyslexia

We are conducting a research study to understand how children with dyslexia in UK primary schools experience learning, assessment, and support.
🔗 Learn more or sign up: tinyurl.com/ckvv5hsf

#Dyslexia

Excited to share our new paper, where we propose that inefficient anticipatory mechanisms may represent a common underlying thread linking the spoken language, reading, and handwriting difficulties associated with dyslexia.

Available open access here:
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Twilight Talks Research Series: Identifying and supporting children with developmental language disorder in the classroom In this session, Dr Juhayna Taha Institute of Education, UCL’s faculty for Education and Society, will talk about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Are you an educator interested in learning more about supporting children with developmental language disorder?

Join the next Nasen Twilight Talks on May 8th, with @juhaynat.bsky.social.

Book your place now!

#DLD

HOME | LICIE 2025 Your main source of information for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education (LICIE)

Join us at the London International Conference on Inclusive Education, on July 28-30 2025!

Engage in interdisciplinary discussions on #InclusiveEducation with more than 200 academics from across the world.

Grab your early bird ticket now: www.licie.co.uk

@ioe.bsky.social

Hi everyone, newbie here! 👋 I am a trainee Speech and Language Therapy student at Birmingham City Uni on the Masters pathway - currently in my final year 😆 Please feel free to signpost me to profiles that I can follow to build my connections. Any tips would also be greatly appreciated! 😊

Working with Adults with DLD network NAPLIC is planning on starting a network for professionals who work with adults with DLD. We want to know your views so that we build them into our plans. Network meetings will be termly, online and f...

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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Abraz Hussein, an adult with DLD tells his story. He got through primary without much support, but at start of secondary was permanently excluded. Then went to PRU before getting diagnosed and going to a special school for speech and language. Support makes all the difference!
#NAPLIC25 #DevLangDis

Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society Elinor Saiegh-Haddad will discuss diglossia in Arabic, and how this linguistic distance impacts children.

Join us on 15 April for a seminar by Professor Elinor Saiegh-Haddad on "Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications", hosted by OE's Centre for Language, Literacy, Numeracy

Online or in person (London)
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

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I've joined Blue Sky to raise awareness about developmental language disorder (DLD) in adults. It so often gets left out of discussions about neurodivergence. I'll be posting more on this soon. #DevLangDis #RADLD #NAPLIC #AFASIC #inclusion #neurodiversity #neurodiversityatwork

There is still time to submit your abstract for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education! 🙌

Due to overwhelming demand, the call for papers has been reopened from March 3rd to 12th only.

Join us and submit your abstract now!

@ucl.ac.uk
@ioe.bsky.social

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📣 Calling on #SLPs 👈
We want to hear from #SLPs #SLTs about what you want from digital evidence tools to help you find research evidence easily. You're invited to participate in focus groups or an interview, register your interest here bit.ly/3D4QI2s #bskySPEECHIES @leannetogher.bsky.social

Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND): Developing Quality Inclusive Practice Suite of online courses for SENCOs, early career teachers, learning support assistants and teaching assistants. Gain the the knowledge and skills you need to improve provision in your school for…

Wondering how best to support pupils with #SEND in your setting?

@ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social's suite of online short courses provides self-paced learning to help you develop quality #InclusivePractice.

Find out more and book here!

What a magical night at St Paul’s Cathedral ✨

Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost!

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If the neurodivergence taskforce wants to make schools better for neurodivergent children, why aren’t the 1 million children with Developmental Language Disorder part of the conversation?😣

This is totally unacceptable!

Don't you agree, Department for Education? #TheForgottenMillion

HOME | LICIE 2025 Your main source of information for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education (LICIE)

Join us to hear from over 200 speakers from 4 continents.

Book your ticket now for the London International conference on #InclusiveEducation!

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Since 2018, we have organized and supported events around the world to let more people know about developmental language disorder (DLD).
This year's DLD day is on Oct 17. To prepare for it, we will restructure our website radld.org. Let us know how to make it more useful for you!

🇬🇧 UK SLTs – LAST CHANCE! 📢

Share your experiences in supporting children’s reading, writing, and spelling to help shape clearer guidelines on UK SLTs' role in supporting children's written language skills.

It only takes 10 minutes!
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Here this morning live posting of the
#IJLCDwinterLecture by @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social & @cristina-mckean.bsky.social.
What makes language interventions work - exploring the active ingredients
#DevLangDis

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Join our free online event at 5pm on 12 Feb to learn how to become a dyslexia specialist and gain a Master’s degree from the world’s #1 university for Education! Sign up:  tinyurl.com/UCLdyslexia

✅ Achieve AMBDA, APC & ATS/APS qualifications

✅ In-person & online learning

Fantastic work !! Is this book in Greek ?

Our national survey with in-service UK SLTs is showing similar findings.. this highlights the importance of establishing guidelines on the role of SLTs in supporting children’s written language skills