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Professor Cristina McKean

@cristina-mckean.bsky.social
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Speech and Language Therapist - Professor of Child Language Development and Disorders - fascinated by child development and passionate about tackling inequalities childhood experiences

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Carol-Anne Murphy @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@cristina-mckean.bsky.social @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social @tricmc.bsky.social @renalyons.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social please share if you can! Thank you
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Carol-Anne Murphy @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@ticld.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social be grateful for shares!
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Abdelwahab Floccia Forbes Alsiddiqi Al-Shdifat @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Odeh Trebacz Khattab 2025 Adaptation & Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Devel Inventories for Chn 8-30 & 30-48 Months in 🇪🇬EG 🇯🇴JO & 🇵🇸PS. JSLHR doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
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Adaptation and Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Development Inventories for Children Aged 8–30 Months and 30–48 Months in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine
Purpose: Assessing early language skills through parental report is a cost-effective way to screen for language delays when resources are scarce....
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Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Delighted to see our LIVELY RCT published. Completing this during the pandemic was one of the hardest & most worthwhile experiences of my career The commitment of the RA team & educators was humbling. And we found Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) works! dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...
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A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Pre‐School Language Interventions—Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language Scheme
Background Children's language abilities set the stage for their education, psychosocial development and life chances across the life course. Aims To compare the efficacy of two preschool language...
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Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International women’s day to all the amazing women working in speech and language therapy and education practice and research - you are all legends and make lasting and important impact happen every day
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 27/02/2025
🚨We’re Hiring: Research Assistant🚨 Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND. 🔍 Interested? Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/43gBWAe #Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 03/03/2025
🔔 Join our Lunchtime Webinar Series tomorrow! 💡 Does investing in prevention reduce rates of children in care? 📅 4 March | ⏰ 12:30pm - 1:30pm 📍 Register now for in-person and online attendance bit.ly/41qvYud
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 07/03/2025
📢 Calling Early Years professionals! Take the next step in your career with our new online, part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education. Applications are now open for entry in 2025. Find out more and start your application today ➡️ buff.ly/3D5o6Gb
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 07/03/2025
🎥 Missed our public seminar with Professor Cristina McKean last week? Catch up now and watch the recording here! ➡️ bit.ly/4i6OVcd
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Lift Lessons @liftlessons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We recently came across this video and it is amazing. Frankie is an adult eith Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and hearing her experiences and views will open many people's eyes. #DevLangDis
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NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a speaker line up! You've got until Monday and so don't miss the early bird conference rate. Join us in person in Birmingham to learn all about Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis naplic.org.uk/conferences
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NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#NAPLIC25 conference is coming up on 29/3, with early bird closing on 10/3. It's close to the end of the financial year and so your manager may have a few pennies they need to use up. Make a case to you manager today! #DevLangDis www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
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Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Come and join my growing team! An exciting opportunity to help us to evaluate the ELIM-I. Please repost @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social
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Saloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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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).
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David Kinnane @speechbloke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We need to do more work on what we mean by “functional communication” - & how we measure and improve it: www.banterspeech.com.au/what-is-func...
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What is functional communication? How can we assess, measure, and improve it? | Banter Speech & Language
The big picture: Functional communication is how someone actually uses language to communicate with others in the real world. It is often very different from how someone performs on a standardised lan...
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Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hello #slpeeps - I am looking for some bus story transcripts in the public domain for my students to try to analyse - does anyone know where I might find them? @helensc.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social
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Sebastian Potthoff @sebastianpotthoff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚀 Come work with myself and Prof Tim Rapley! We are hiring a Research Fellow in Implementation Science! Explore how early language interventions are implemented across England. 📍 Newcastle | 🕒 30-month role | 🔗 Apply now! | 7 Mar deadline work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_... #Hiring #Research
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TICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We have now closed our survey on textbooks and taxonomies. Thank you to all those who completed and shared the survey, we are delighted with the response. Stay tuned for further surveys and updates from the TICLD project! #DevLangDis #ImpSci #BSkySPEECHIES
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TICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We have only one response each from Finland, Sweden, and Austria, can you help us reach more countries? We are looking for academics or researchers who teach on #bskySPEECHIES #SLT #SLP degree courses to fill out this survey on #DevLangDis: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share widely!
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Dr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Its #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek! Myself and Sarah Griffiths have worked together with clinicians, young people with #devlangdis and families to help mental health practitioners to make sessions more accessible for children with Developmental Language Disorder. Here are signs of DLD in MH settings:
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core
How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis
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TICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
FAO all academics who teach child language interventions in both undergraduate and postgraduate SLT/SLP programmes. Please tell us what core book you use in your teaching of child language disorders. This work forms part of the TICLD programme of research. Survey: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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TICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We are interested in non-English textbooks on #DevLangDis also, please fill in this survey if you are a #bskySPEECHIE #SLT #SLP academic or researcher who teaches on SLT/P degree programmes. ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Professor Helen Stringer @drhelenslt.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
@stephvanee-slt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Celebrating our new open access paper. Time to get reading folks! Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties doi.org/10.1111/1460...
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Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non‐syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficulties
Background Children born with cleft palate ± lip (CP ± L) are at risk of speech sound disorder (SSD). Up to 40% continue to have SSD at age 5–6 years. These difficulties are typically described as a.....
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Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Hello @drhelenslt.bsky.social - can you help me find SLT and Education people here? I am not sure how to connect and I am sure you will have found a way 😄
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Professor Helen Stringer @drhelenslt.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
If you didn’t get chance to watch the 3MT today (Jo Baker did an excellent 3 minutes about SSD). You can still watch them on YouTube Here is the voting link: audience.ahaslides.com/5av4b4mkah
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VOTE FOR 2024 3MT WINNER by Paul Millard - AhaSlides
Celebrate the winner of the Vitae Three Minute Thesis Competition 2024, chosen by popular vote, showcasing their exceptional research in just three minutes!
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Professor Helen Stringer @drhelenslt.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Very happy to say that Jo Baker won the Judges’ Choice Award!!
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