Practice-Based Research in an Educational Context: A Qualitative Investigation of Facilitators, Barriers, and Partnership Experience Purpose: Collaborative partnerships contribute to the development of effective tools and practices while simultaneously creating new knowledge. H...

Vollebregt et al. write that practice-based research (PBR) partnerships between researchers and SLPs are challenging but make important knowledge contributions. The PBR Partnership Framework can help guide successful partnerships.

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Exciting RADLD Canada Ambassadors meeting yesterday. We talked about - not what we'll do in October for #DLDDay - but what people are doing RIGHT NOW to raise awareness. Fun to hear about so many currently active initiatives to raise awareness of Developmental Language Disorder! @radld.bsky.social

Tis the season....SO many reviewer invitations from journals in my inbox in January!!!

Practice-Based Research With Speech-Language Pathologists: A Case Study in Evaluating an Evidence-Informed Language and Phonological Awareness Assessment Tool Purpose: Practice-based research (PBR) is one approach to knowledge translation that involves conducting research in a clinical setting. In this ...

In this practice-based research project, researchers and clinicians capture and change practice to revise an assessment tool for immediate implementation.

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Here's our paper in measuring individual score change in Kindergarten children using our screening measure. Check out our change score calculator described in the paper and available online. @tpham62.bsky.social @numcog.bsky.social @drmarcj.bsky.social Janis Oram www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

Did you know that the #DLDToolbox is translated into several languages? Here is the Spanish translation with thanks to Dra. Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, University de les Illes Balears. idel.uib.es/traduccion-a...

Story sparkle returns again this year. May your stories sparkle…using these linguistic strategies!

Thank you to the RADLD international committee for leading such a great day!

Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing materia...

Young children can be engaged in making decisions. Clark & Moss described the MOSAIC approach for listening to young children (us.jkp.com/products/lis...)

Great tip was to engage children in activity FIRST & THEN talking. Kids love activity - they don't want to just sit & talk. Also, they wonder why we (adults) all ask them the same questions ... like what grade are you in? Do you do sports? (Yup, those are the questions I ask!)

With a better-late-than-never mindset, I've just listened to Aiofe Gallagher's 2024 Dorothy Bishop DLD lecture. So many good points about listening to children (adults are bad at it) & their right to be a part of decisions about their lives. #DevLangDis @radld.bsky.social

#WesternDLD2 Our SLP graduate course on school-age language & related disorders is starting. We're looking for a few more course partners: SLPs working with school age children who would have a conversation with one of our students 3 times in the Fall term. Love to hear from you if you're willing!

The first paper from Shengfu’s PhD! A scoping review on recast dosage for children with #DLD. With increased attention to how much we do of what we do, this is an important contribution @ashajournals.bsky.social

In the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western University, we're searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in audiology: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Come and join our dynamic team!

Programme to develop conceptual vocabulary found to benefit pre-school children - Nursery World A programme to help children understand concepts rather than just individual words has been found to have improved three and four-year-olds’ progress by two months, rising to three months for those el...

Our Concept Cat study featured in Nursery World yesterday.
It showed whole class vocabulary teaching worked in Early Years and promoted learning of abstract concepts and wait for it, this also impacted on maths. EYPP children made accelerated progress too.

www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/news...

Generative Language Intervention for Young Children With Down Syndrome Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial Purpose: Children with Down syndrome often have poor speech intelligibility, which can mask expressive language competence; this, in turn, can le...

Thank you to Kent-Welsh with Binger's research group for this paper describing generative language intervention for AAC users. Appendix A describes the techniques & includes links to video examples. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Watson & Westby (2025) nicely capture the varying reasons that a child may show behaviour differences related to language and learning. Converging assessment evidence is a necessary part of identification! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Scott (2025) Explored SLP perspectives on cultural humility in therapeutic relationships between school-based SLPs & their students. She offered some helpful questions for self-reflection. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Monroe & Soto Cont'd - Culturally responsive resources for AAC are available here: aac.sfsu.edu/content/mult...

Multilingual Augmentative and Alternative Communication for the Monolingual Therapist Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss strategies that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can use when supporting augmentative and a...

Monroe & Soto - Multilingual AAC for the Monolingual Therapist. Some great tips on adopting a culturally responsive approach & becoming a 'translingual therapist'! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Assessment for Children on the Autism Spectrum: Protocol Development and Content Validation Purpose: Previous research has shown that many speech-language pathologists (SLPs) lack confidence in conducting augmentative and alternative com...

Lund et al (2025) Provide a AAC assessment protocol (see their supplemental materials) corresponding to Beukelman & Light's 'The Participation Model'. Looks like a helpful assessment resource! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

This website shares the 'Promoting Communication Tools for Advancing Language in Kids' (PC TALK). It is out of Kentucky University by Walker & Bigelow: talk.ku.edu

Theory of Mind Abilities and Comprehension of Mental Terms in Subgroups of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Language Disorder Purpose: This study examined how subgroups of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) perform on t...

Hadad & Segel - Examined theory of mind abilities in autism #DevLangDis & typical development. 'Findings...suggest that the development of ToM is closely intertwined with language, particularly the ability to use and understand mental cognitive terms...' pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

This poem touches my heart and I am sharing it again.
It is by Naomi about her son Ronnie, who has Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). If you relate to this poem, you can join our campaign to raise awareness of DLD as ambassadors here radld.org
#DLDday is Friday October 17th, 2025

Social justice within SLP: Be careful of income-based resources for language enrichment (e.g., puzzles, books, museum trips). Recommend cooking or enlisting older siblings for language rich opportunities. Frame language abilities of SEE kids as average. Higher ed homes may use above-average language

Grammar markers required for everyday language vary less with socioeconomic environments. Why are we so focused on lexical diversity? Obligatory skills like phonological processing (nonword rep), word-learning (fast mapping) & finiteness marked are better suited for disentangling DLD & SEE.

The Conversational Language Profile of Children in Low Socioeconomic Environments: A Systematic Review Purpose: Children from low socioeconomic environments (SEEs; i.e., families with parental education of high school or less and/or household incom...

The Conversational Language Profile of Children in Low Socioeconomic Environments: A Systematic Review. Important finding: it's a profile of difference not disorder. Academic language features (e.g., number of different words) do not differentiate difference & disorder) pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Results suggest need for cognitive-linguistic indices to support differential diagnosis of DLD & ADHD. Wording reading difficulty in DLD or ADHD is an early indicator of dyslexia risk. Close research-to-practice gap on misconception of ADHD effects on word reading & refer for dyslexia assessment!

DLD status significantly positively associated with working memory, phon memory, word reading & (to a lesser extent) ADHD symptoms. Neither ADHD symptoms or working memory was predictive of reading ability.

Word Reading and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children With Developmental Language Disorder Purpose: This study evaluated the relationship between word reading and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in school-age...

Great paper by legends @tiffanyphogan.bsky.social @s-redmonduofu.bsky.social & co examining links between word reading (dyslexia), DLD & ADHD. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...