Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanCarol-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 043
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanCarol-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! 034
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanCaroline 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... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIESdoi.orgAdaptation and Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Development Inventories for Children Aged 8–30 Months and 30–48 Months in Egypt, Jordan, and PalestinePurpose: Assessing early language skills through parental report is a cost-effective way to screen for language delays when resources are scarce.... 053
Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Delighted 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...dx.doi.orgA Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Pre‐School Language Interventions—Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language SchemeBackground 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... 183
Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Happy 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 daymedia.tenor.coma cartoon of a woman with the words celebrate women 's historyAlt: a cartoon of a woman with the words celebrate women 's history 0183
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanDepartment 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 131
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanDepartment 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 001
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanDepartment 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 011
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanDepartment 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 064
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanLift Lessons @liftlessons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025We 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 255
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanNAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025What 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 074
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanNAPLIC @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/ 016
Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Come 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 21012
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanSaloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL 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). 01630
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanDavid Kinnane @speechbloke.bsky.social · 19/02/2025We 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...banterspeech.com.auWhat is functional communication? How can we assess, measure, and improve it? | Banter Speech & LanguageThe 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... 1167
Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Hello #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 212
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanSebastian 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 #Researchwork4.northumbria.ac.uk 157
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanTICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We 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 021
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanTICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We 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! 0413
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanDr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Its #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: 01515
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanMike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 13/01/2025How 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...cambridge.orgHow strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge CoreHow strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis 03524
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanTICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 21/01/2025FAO 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_...ucc.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 242
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanTICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 23/01/2025We 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_...ucc.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 356
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanProfessor 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...doi.orgRethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non‐syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficultiesBackground 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..... 045
Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social · 05/10/2024Hello @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 😄 340
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanProfessor Helen Stringer @drhelenslt.bsky.social · 02/10/2024If 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/5av4b4mkahaudience.ahaslides.comVOTE FOR 2024 3MT WINNER by Paul Millard - AhaSlidesCelebrate the winner of the Vitae Three Minute Thesis Competition 2024, chosen by popular vote, showcasing their exceptional research in just three minutes! 012
Reposted by Professor Cristina McKeanProfessor Helen Stringer @drhelenslt.bsky.social · 04/10/2024Very happy to say that Jo Baker won the Judges’ Choice Award!! 041