Funny how a child of about six, who doesn't know you, screeching to a halt on his bike right near you, and smiling at you broadly from under his peaked cap can lift your whole day #justhappened

New book for word nerds everywhere. Anatoly Liberman reviews Unabridged by Stefan Fatsis
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Now available internationally as an ebook for Kindle from Amazon!! @carolinebowen.bsky.social ‬@pamelasnow.bsky.social #bskySPEECHIES #teachers #families & #youngpeople #SLT
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Very interesting and I will suggest asap thank you 🌷#SaLTBkGrp

Warmest Congrats esp to #baby and wishing you all lots of sleeep 👏

Thank you they are wonderful companions and accompanions! The audience joins in too...
I am enjoying listening to you on your www 👏 Speaking Stone - so moving and exquisite drawings...oh beautiful: "Michelangelo left you unmended"...poetic storytelling is what I love 🔥

Yes -Amazing! My sister voiced this yesterday.Just been interviewing someone about Swifts-Swallows-House Martins-Sand Martins & their increasing relationship to the earth/ nests becoming more solid...Swifts hardly ever land at all & build high-up loose ones...sand martins burrow underground 🩵🪶

Thank you - Really glad to have found it! I'm preparing next storytelling performance : Back to Back with Frida Kahlo - which we premiered on the centenary of her accident last September. Although mostly I use storytelling as a way to promote communication with chn&adults with severe disabilities...

Just ordered this!

Wonderful time gathering plants for The Dusk Gardener, picked this morning by two seven year olds I help with on Fridays - a bit of biodynamic nutritious heaven - both the food and blossoms and being with them...

How was World Book Day? Any favourite costumes or books?! Here's a brilliant staircase & graffiti at the schl where I ran Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling part1-2day training for the Children's Integrated Speech & Language Therapy Service for Hackney and the City which was a very vivacious day!

Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice for Speech and Language Therapists: Supporting Curiosity, Compassion and Conversation Are you a speech and language therapist (SLT) working independently, within a speech and language therapy team, or in training? Do you, or might you work with autistic or other neurodivergent people? ...

Excited about new start with #SaLTBkGrp this week Ch1 8-9.15pm GMT online-let me know if you'd like to join friendly, listening convo: www.routledge.com/Neurodiversi...

Middle-schoolers’ reading and lexical-semantic processing depth in response to digital and print media: An N400 study We report the first use of ERP measures to identify text engagement differences when reading digitally or in print. Depth of semantic encoding is key for reading comprehension, and we predicted that d...

"Behavioral research has shown deeper semantic encoding of text frm paper than frm screen...findings provide evidence of differncs in brain responses to texts presented in print& digital media, includg deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts."Pub: May 22, 2024
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Mohammad Hossein Ghane PhD (given name: Ghane) researcher in applied #linguistics at Yazd University in 🇮🇷Iran seeks native English speakers for an online survey.
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SO interesting - now we need research (anybody know of any?) where we measure how iconic gesture supports intonation-which supports comprehensn and recall of story/vocab. I observe 100's times a yr running trainings how gestures linked to spkn concepts help the voice to convey meaning & experience.

so true....more personal and poignant

exquisite!

Touchd to be invitd to the Memorial Wednesday night for the wife of #SirMarkRylance: composer & playwright #ClaireVanKampen I've never wept so much at a performance. Exquisite portrayal of power of #music & #song thro CVK's wit & wisdom, MK's inner child, #MelodyGrove's grace & #IestynDavies voice!👏

Living With Scoliosis | Documentary Short YouTube video by Scoliosis Support & Research

Incredible response to Scoliosis Support & Research Film. So many messages from #scoliosis warriors feeling recognised & encouraged by the documentary. And one who didn't, whom we are rallying around ♥️🤞 Very pleased & amazed to have been involved www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZI...

A sign of something not working or working that I get invited back again & again!? Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling back at Blossom House Schl www.blossomhouseschool.co.uk 3rd time (intro day),then 4th time back to Athens, Greece, to train Speech Pathologists in the Spring 2026 (2 days: Part 1)

Excitedly preparing to train 50 Attention Autism Practitioners day after tmw #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #InclusiveEducation #autismawareness Gathering my #storytelling tools....only sad to be going away from husband The Dusk Gardener, and lovely SaLT who stays with us Monday nights.

#SaLTBkGrp tonight:"Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training"
Grant Blasko, Janice Light, David McNaughton, Bob Williams & Jordyn Zimmerman-Published online: 13 Jun 2025.

Some poignant and celebratory moments in the Q'nA at the launch of Living with Scoliosis photo courtesy of Amelie scoliosis.with.at c/o scoliosis research uk ssr.org.uk #scoliosis #scoliosisawareness #scoliosiswarrior

Amazing to be in this documentary short & to meet the other wonderful participants.c/o Scoliosis Research UK 🤍 I am the oldest, youngest is six.She was dressed like a sparkly angel & said " I wd tell someone [just diagnosed] I have scoliosis too, you're not alone".

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Beautiful -where can I find the source of this quote please?

Lovely to be called in as a kind of #storytelling ambulance - and great to be able to rearrange day so can be there to run #CPD for #Teachers #Authors #Storytellers #Therapists #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #education #accessibility www.hastingsstoryfest.org.uk/2025-adults :

Living with Scoliosis | Documentary Trailer YouTube video by Scoliosis Support & Research

Feels extraordinary and very moving to be featured in this documentary. Looking forward to meeting the others at the launch on October 28th London #scoliosis #spinalsurgery #couragetogether #wearyourcurve youtu.be/p-0xewRfPNc?...