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Daniela O’Neill

@danielaoneill.bsky.social
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Expert on how children’s social pragmatic communication grows & developer of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) to assess this in 2- & 3-year-olds #DevLangDis | Outreach on #PlayfulLearning #language & #literacy in urban spaces @UofWaterloo 🇨🇦 #bskySPEECHIES

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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Delighted to our article about creating a playground #AAC board in Ground Magazine. A #landscapearchitecture magazine certainly wasn't on our radar when this project began! It’s openaccess & exciting to share this work far & wide with new audiences! issuu.com/oalagroundma... #play #inclusion #SLP
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Lovely to get this ResearchGate notification! This was my 1st paper introducing my Language Use Inventory in 2007! I could never have anticipated where the LUI is today - normed & used all over the 🌎 with many translations! More info & access to this paper & others uwaterloo.ca/childrens-co...
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Please check out the launch of Piece of Mind by my student Olivia Vento who has successfully taken up the challenge to design a more #accessible puzzle for all who can still enjoy and benefit from the social and cognitive aspects of #puzzles! Pre-orders have just started! pieceofmindpuzzles.ca
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My students & I created an Augmentative and Alternative Communication #AAC Board for a local city #playground! We’ve made a video to highlight its features - some novel & others grounded in the in the best research we found. #openaccess report: doi.org/10.15353/100... youtu.be/w54Q0DWPCMs?...
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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
  Picture of AAC board in foreground with a play structure in the background in city 
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
The photo shows the new AAC board in the foreground with one of the Eby Farm playground structures in the background.
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
3000 reads as of today on ResearchGate! The Power of Board Games for Multidomain Learning in Young Children www.museumofplay.org/journalofplay/ Thanks @thestrongmuseum.bsky.social for your open access American Journal of Play making research more accessible! #play #boardgames #playislearning
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It's been a busy week in the lab! We just packed up and delivered over 200 board games to Kitchener Public Library! Check out our lab IG @talk2thrivelab to see some behind-the-scenes fun as featuring Lab Outreach Manager, Olivia, plays real-life Tetris packing up all these games into 21 boxes!
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The amazing reach of #openaccess! A nice message to see today ☺️ This article, published in the Strong Museum of Play’s American Journal of Play, & still in its top 5 most read, can be found here www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/... #play #boardgames #playislearning
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Wonderful discussion tonight between ⁦‪ @juliesedivy.bsky.social and ⁦‪Maryanne Wolf hosted by ⁦‪Planet Word Museum in DC‬⁩ on all things language in conversation and writing, spurred on by Julie’s new book Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
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