Scale Really Matters (SSIR) The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.

Growth ≠ Scale. That distinction, Kevin Starr argues in Stanford Social Innovation Review, is what separates the organizations that dent big problems from the ones that don't.
Scale ideas, not organizations.
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/scale-really-matters
#Philanthropy #ImpactInvesting

They're just bringing together the Avengers of comics academics and letting you watch their discussion for free? Incredible!!

‘Better Conversations With Developmental Language Disorder’: Designing a Novel Intervention for School‐Aged Children and Their Main Carers Background Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with receptive and expressive language, which can affect their participation in everyday interactions with othe...

#openaccess
‘Better Conversations With Developmental Language Disorder’: Designing a Novel Intervention for School-Aged Children and Their Main Carers

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Bskyspeechies #DevLangDis #pragmatics #SLP #SLT #edusky #languagedevelopment

#comics #edusky #Elemed #literacy #reading #K12

I’m thrilled to announce the completion of a 1.5yr project – the creation & installation of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Board for the new Eby Farm Playground in Waterloo Park in my hometown! Open full report w/ all symbols: uwaterloo.ca/childrens-co...

#Bskyspeechies #AAC

Hi #EduSky - time for my #Saturday3 and a feature of today's reads is that they feature common primary education practices.....that don't have a lot of evidence to support them. Maybe it's because I had another career first but I am always a bit sceptical of things that are just done out of habit.

I have started a blog where I share my lesson plans, resources comics recommendations, and book give-away, all for free. This week, I share one of my most impactful lessons. Comics. Education. Literacy. Comics. Education. Literacy. Sign-up here www.historycomics.net/timsmythblog...

Picture of AAC board in foreground with a play structure in the background in city park

I’m thrilled to announce the completion of a big project – the creation & installation of an Augmentative & Alternative Communication Board for my local Eby Farm Playground in #Waterloo Park! Learn more & access open full report: uwaterloo.ca/childrens-co...

#AAC #citiesforchildren #inclusion #play

The photo shows the new AAC board in the foreground with one of the Eby Farm playground structures in the background.

I’m thrilled to announce the completion of a big project – the creation & installation of an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Board for the new Eby Farm Playground in Waterloo Park in my hometown! Learn more and access our open full report: uwaterloo.ca/childrens-co...

Autism Essentials

Reframing Autism has created a FREE self-directed course on #Autism, developed by Autistic people & informed by research

reframing-autism-s-school.teachable.com/p/autism-ess...

#neurodiversity

‘Reader, Come Home’ by Maryanne Wolf selected as Princeton Pre-read The Princeton Pre-read for the Class of 2030 addresses the ‘vital importance’ of deep reading in a digital age. Incoming students will receive copies of the book this summer.

Super cool that Maryanne Wolf's book "Reader, Come Home" is a @princeton.edu pre-read. Maryanne, now a CASBS board member, worked on the book as a CASBS fellow.

Accordingly, a copy of the book resides in CASBS's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📚

📖 www.princeton.edu/news/2026/04...

Happy Thursday E-DLD followers! Today's research study aimed to investigate how bilingual children with DLD and typically developing (TD) bilingual children differ in their narrative production

Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/story-t...

#DevLangDis #DLD #Bilingual #StoryTelling

🇨🇦 $37.05 CDN

www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FXDPB22K/

Today is World Autism Awareness Day 💙 and we’re celebrating representation that helps audiences see themselves and others in the world around them. Characters like Julia on Sesame Street, a young girl with autism, help normalize differences, spark conversations, and build empathy from an early age.

S5E23: Richard Wheadon on Teaching Learning Habits and Returning to the Classroom Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect, a show sponsored by John Catt from Hachette Learning and hosted by me, Dr. Zach Groshell. My guest today is Richard Wheadon, author of the forthcoming book …

Teaching kids “how to learn” often drifts into nebulous woo woo, while failing to achieve that goal. In this episode, Richard Wheadon cuts through the noise and describes what it actually looks like to build real habits of learning. educationrickshaw.com/2026/03/28/s...

"Orthographic Skeletons”: Can children start learning how a word is spelled before they've seen it in print? Why oral vocabulary predicts reading ability.

If you are interested in early reading / literacy, this is another must-read from @carlhendrick.substack.com. Really Interesting research which I think will strike a chord with many primary teachers.

open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...

Why Childhood Apraxia of Speech is Often Misunderstood CAS is frequently confused with general speech delay or phonological disorder. The key difference is that CAS involves a breakdown in motor planning, not just sound learning. Children with CAS may per...

Why Childhood Apraxia of Speech is Often Misunderstood
speechapraxia.co.uk/about-sauk/f...

Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience" Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning

Newsletter up. Rant incoming.

Pop sci mostly reaches educated, left-leaning, wealthy readers — including, of course, scientists and science writers.

I increasingly believe the gap between the real general audience and what's called "general audience" in scicomm is huge and worth talking about: 🧪

Many people feel they “can’t draw”, which seems odd given assumptions about drawing as a direct pathway to visual concepts. We can all see, so why can’t we draw? So here’s a thread why everything you know about learning to draw is wrong… 1/

114: Begonia, average coral, and sea pink - Defining colour terms with Kory Stamper begonia: a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral (see ‘coral’ 3B), bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet William, called also ‘gaiety’. In this episode, you

begonia: a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral (see ‘coral’ 3B), bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet William, called also ‘gaiety’

In our latest ep we get enthusiastic about colour terms with @korystamper.bsky.social, author of the new book TRUE COLOR!

Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum

New article from E. D. Hirsch and me on (1) the evidence for the importance of knowledge in reading; (2) why it’s taken so long for people to acknowledge the evidence; (3) what we predict if the role of knowledge is taken seriously. www.educationnext.org/rediscoverin...

FASS and @sfulinguistics.bsky.social proudly announce a direct entry pathway to New Zealand's University of Canterbury Master of Speech and Language Pathology program!

Learn more at the upcoming virtual info session on Mar 26.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/ling-to-un...

@sfu.ca @sfugradstudies.bsky.social

Open-access paper looking at quality of life in children with #DevLangDis #SLPeeps doi.org/10.3390/chil...

Learning at the Edge of Understanding: Correct answers are a lagging indicator of learning, not the mechanism.
New post ⤵️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/learning-a...

#Bskyspeechies #scienceofreading #comics #dyslexia #ElemEd #Bskyedu

Thanks for sharing! I’ve often wondered about this, but I hadn’t seen research before either

Related to topic of recent ASHA Forum, Di Sante & colleagues found significant, under-recognized difficulties w/ social pragmatic communication in 42-month-olds exposed to neglect using the LUI w/ focus on everyday use & functions of language & more ICF aligned journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Forum: Addressing Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment Through the Lens of the ICF Purpose: This prologue introduces the Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools forum, Addressing Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment Throu...

Guest Editors Leslie E. Kokotek and Carol Westby talk about their forum: Addressing Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment Through the Lens of the ICF! Read the introduction and watch the editors discuss this important topic in their own words!

https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_LSHSS-24-00125

Bishopblog catalogue (updated 12 Mar 2026) Source: http://www.weblogcartoons.com/2008/11/23/ideas/ Those of you who follow this blog may have noticed a lack of thematic coheren...

I've just updated the catalogue for my blog.
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Main topics are neurodevelopment, reproducibility, publishing and research integrity

Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence (SSIR) As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.

Across millennia, human intelligence has evolved not simply through logic or invention, but through connection. Our ancestors survived not because they computed faster, but because they cooperated better.