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Dr Mari Viviers

@drmariviviersslt.bsky.social
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Post doc researcher @ Imperial College London | Neonatal & Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist | Interests: infant feeding & swallowing, early infant parent interaction, research methods

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Dr Mari Viviers @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excited to share our Paediatric Laryngeal Ultrasound study. We developed a speech & language therapy led assessment protocol (vocal fold movement in voice & swallow) @DrJoanMa1 @SLTLoulou @WLCH_NHS @ImperialPaeCH @RCSLTResearch 📄Read here: doi.org/10.3389/fneu...
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Frontiers | Assessing vocal fold movement in healthy young children and infants using laryngeal ultrasound by speech and language therapists: a feasibility study
BackgroundVocal fold motion impairment (VFMI) is a common laryngeal disorder in infants and young children and may impact respiration, phonation and swallowi...
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Dr Silke Fricke @frickesilke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We followed children’s language, socioemotional, and educational progress for three years following the initial COVID-19 lockdowns. Exciting to see the final report of this @nuffieldfoundation.org funded project published, which shows and discusses a picture of mixed findings: www.iciclesproject.com
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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Always love the lifespan focus of sessions here @uksrg.bsky.social @sarahkedney.bsky.social now sharing her findings near the end of PhD Factors influencing feeding outcomes following HIE in neonates. #UKSRG2026
Sarah standing at the podium in full flow of talk.
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Anaesthetist Dr Joseph Alderman kicking things off at #UKSRG26 - machine learning, machine bias and how to get it right with AI in a clinical setting. Fabulous talk!
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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Second day at #UKSRG2026 Second poster. Lots of great projects being shared.
Smiling Sally standing by a poster again.
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Dr Mari Viviers @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
CPD opportunity
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British Association of Perinatal Medicine @bapmofficial.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📅✨ Grab your 2026 diary and secure your place at the BAPM Spring Conference! Join resident doctors, ANNPs and AHPs for two days of learning, networking and the latest clinical updates. 📍 Northampton & Online 🗓️ 10–11 March 2026 🎟️ Early bird tickets available now! www.bapm.org/events/bapm-...
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British Association of Perinatal Medicine @bapmofficial.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
📢 BANNFU Executive Committee Vacancies We’re looking for passionate members to help shape national neonatal follow-up services and support education, research and standards of care. 📅 Deadline: 30 Nov www.bapm.org/articles/com...
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Committee Members needed to help run BAPM Special Interest Group BANNFU
We are seeking dedicated and enthusiastic members to join the executive committee of BAPM’s special interest group (SIG) BANNFU. The British Association for Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-up…
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Tracy Lazenby-Paterson @tlpslt.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Great wee straightforward myth-busting read from powerhouses in the field. Any of Palmer’s (esp BOLUS framework) and Leslie’s (esp ethics) work is well worth a read for any dysphagia clinician.
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Canadian Premature Babies Foundation @canadianpreemies.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This talk will include a brief review of brain injury and brain development in preterm babies and ways in which we can promote brain development.  🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST 📍 Where: Facebook | X | YouTube
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🤩Just 7 days to bag yourself for #UKSRG26 Early Bird tickets before prices increase! 🚨 Join us for themes including oesophageal dysphagia, AI, impact of dysphagia, palliative care & respiratory!!! Workshops can be selected during registration! 🔗 app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...
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a bird is sitting on a rock with the words early bird gets the worm below it
ALT: a bird is sitting on a rock with the words early bird gets the worm below it
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🔐💰 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Davison, K. E., Strang, C., Gray-Bauer, H., Liu, T., & Zuk, J. (2025). Caregiver Oral #Reading #Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension. JSLHR, 1–13. doi.org/10.1044/2025... Makes a lot of sense, 🦋 #bskyspeechies
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Caregiver Oral Reading Prosody Is Associated With Preschoolers' Storybook Listening Comprehension
Purpose: Shared reading is one of the most language-enriched contexts in children's home environments. A salient, understudied characteristic of ...
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Dr Mari Viviers @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Supporting families with preterm infants on their developmentally supportive feeding journey is but one of the roles of speech and language therapists in the neonatal unit #NICUParentHeroes #WorldPrematurityDay @neosltcen.bsky.social
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Dr Mari Viviers @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Paediatric feeding conference in 2026 - for more info see: iapfs.org/convention-p...
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 Early bird tickets for #UKSRG26 are still available! Join us 5th-6th Feb 2026 @ Birmingham for cutting-edge sessions on: 🤖 AI 🏥 Critical Care 🫁 Respiratory 🗣️ Oesophageal Disorders 🌿 Palliative Care 🥣 Impact of Dysphagia Secure your spot now 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/event…
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Oxford Abstracts Delegate Registration
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British Association of Perinatal Medicine @bapmofficial.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Join us for a webinar to mark World Prematurity Day 💜 We’ll explore the lifelong impact of prematurity, support for families, & how to improve long-term outcomes for children born preterm. Date: 20 November Time: 1:00-2:30pm www.bapm.org/events/world...
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Mass General Brigham studied 18,124 births and found that children exposed to maternal COVID-19 in the womb had a 29% higher risk of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3, especially if exposure happened in the third trimester or in male children. journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
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SIG Perspectives @sigperspectives.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Pediatricians who communicate without jargon, listen to parents' concern, and ensure families have enough time during appointments can influence follow-up after a newborn hearing evaluation. Learn more from #ASHASIG7 pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERS… #AuDPeeps
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Parent Perspectives of Pediatricians as Facilitators and Barriers to Follow-Up for the Newborn Hearing Evaluation Process
Purpose: This study aims to examine the role of pediatricians as facilitators affecting follow-up throughout the newborn hearing screening (NBHS)...
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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Excited to have my first ever co-written book chapter in here. On eating, drinking & swallowing difficulties. Great to write it with @dianejsellers.bsky.social @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social & Ailish Hope people find it useful 👇🏼
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Afternoon everyone! Just a reminder that early bird tickets for the UKSRG 2026 conference will be on sale until 1st of December! 🦅 We will be releasing more information over the coming months including speaker spotlights and themes. Tickets 🔗: app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve...
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GPonline @gponline.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Children, including those with developmental problems and disabilities, are facing unacceptably long waits for NHS community services, which are putting their life chances at risk, according to a @nuffieldtrust.org.uk report.
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Childrens' 'life chances at risk' due to unacceptable waits for community services
Children, including those with developmental problems and disabilities, are facing unacceptably long waits for NHS community services, which are putting their life chances at risk, according to a new…
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British Association of Perinatal Medicine @bapmofficial.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🎥 Recordings of the first two webinars in BAPM’s QI Series are now available! Free to view for BAPM members — just log in and visit the Resources page: 🔗 www.bapm.org/pages/191-re...
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Dr Sam Burr @samburrslt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
What an opportunity! 🤩 ✅ Develop your #SLT research curiosity, knowledge and skills ✅ Support to develop your own #SLT research career if you want to
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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Great to hear this study from @kellyslt.bsky.social & colleagues. Important to think about eating, drinking & swallowing through childhood & beyond @essd-dysphagia.bsky.social
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WAIT-UP SLT / Gillian Rudd @waitupslt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Mark Dickinson @nasuwt-official.bsky.social "highlighted the consequences of cuts to children’s services, including the lack of early intervention, long waiting lists for speech and language therapy...These services are not luxuries. They are the safety net that allows every child to thrive.”
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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you are interested in eating and drinking difficulties often called #Dysphagia Here’s a fab starter pack from @lisa-everton.bsky.social go.bsky.app/61hW62g
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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Great to have an overview of past aims, progress & the future of paediatric dysphagia practice. Encouraging progress but still much to do @essd-dysphagia.bsky.social
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British Association of Perinatal Medicine @bapmofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
💗 During #BabyLossAwarenessWeek, we remember every baby and every family affected by loss. BAPM’s Lactation and Loss framework supports healthcare professionals to provide compassionate, informed care for parents navigating milk production after loss. 🔗 Learn more: www.bapm.org/resources/la...
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Dr Sam Burr @samburrslt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So excited to be able to progress this important work in collaboration with inspirational and passionate families, clinicians and researchers 🤩
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🆓🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Fan, S., @samueldcalder.bsky.social, Kemp, N., & Holm, A. (2025). Optimal Dosage Characteristics of Recasting for #DevLangDis: A Scoping Review. JSLHR, 1–25. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #slpeeps 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
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Optimal Dosage Characteristics of Recasting for Developmental Language Disorder: A Scoping Review
Purpose: The purpose of this scoping review was to map and summarize currently available evidence about optimal dosage of recasting for developme...
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Professor Helen Stringer @drhelenslt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Read about Research Capacity in SLT/P a great study led by brilliant SLT @katiedooslt.bsky.social using behaviour change models (TDF & COM-B) to make sense of it! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Use of the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation‐Behaviour Model and Theoretical Domains Framework to Understand Barriers and Enablers of Research Capacity and Culture for Speech and Language Therapy Staff
Background Research Capacity and Culture (RCC) is important for research engagement. Little is known of what speech and language therapy staff perceives to be the barriers or enablers to this at ind...
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Voice evaluations are often needed when children present with #dysphonia. But do children tolerate instrumental voice assessments? Find out here in #AJSLP. on.asha.org/4giv7ml @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #AJSLP
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Instrumental Voice Evaluation in Children: What Are We Getting?
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the age at which children with voice disorders can complete videostroboscopy, acoustic, and aerod...
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Professor Yvonne Wren @yvonnewren.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We are recruiting!! Join #MISLToe_SSD and be part of the new study in Wales. This is an exciting project which is now in phase 2 with phase 3 in the planning stages. If you know about speech sound disorder and know about research, please apply. jobs.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Cardiff Metropolitan University: Research Fellow (Speech and Language Therapy)
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to support the delivery of an exciting new Health and Care Research Wales funded research project in the field of children’s speech development and disord...
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Dr Sam Burr @samburrslt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Great to see Nicoll Bell representing Royal College Of Speech and Language Therapists at #BAPMtogether conference 2025 🤩 #SLT #AHP
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Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) @neonatalnursesuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Don't forget to join us at 1pm today for Family Integrated Care in Wales: Families and Nurses Working Together The event is hosted by NNA Cymru and will feature FICare representatives from across Wales. Book your place here: bit.ly/4ga38F4 #FamilyIntegratedCare
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Dr Stephanie van Eeden @stephvanee-slt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
New article from my PhD findings. Children aged 5-8 with CLP had lower visual and auditory attention skills compared with norms and these skills were correlated with language outcomes. Available open access @drhelenslt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Attention Skills in Children With Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip and Palate
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Dr Sam Burr @samburrslt.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🔥Hot off the press from Claire Marcroft: “Neonatal neurodevelopmental follow-up in the UK: a survey of current practice and future recommendations” bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @bapmofficial.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social #NHS #AHP #Neonatal #neurodevelopment
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
💥 Get ready! 💥 This speaker’s credentials are seriously epic 🤩 Prof. Bandini will be diving into the development of AI-based methods to automate videofluoroscopy analysis (yes, the future is here 👀 👀). 👉 Early bird tickets 🦅 : app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve... See you in Brum 😉
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨 Great news! 🚨 You’ve got extra time ⏳ Our abstract deadline is now extended to 10th September 🎉 Don’t miss your chance to share your work with us! Conference registration will open imminently.. 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth/?redire... #Research #Abstracts #DeadlineExtended #UKSRG26
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SIG Perspectives @sigperspectives.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Eating disorders often involve dysphagia. This #OpenAccess paper for #ASHASIG13 explores ED types, symptoms, and the SLP’s role in assessing and treating swallowing issues as part of holistic, interdisciplinary care on.asha.org/4fOtufZ
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Eating Disorders: Manifestation of Dysphagia and Role of the Speech-Language Pathologist
Purpose: Eating disorders (EDs) are psychiatric conditions characterized by atypical eating behaviors that detrimentally impact an individual's p...
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European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) @espr-esn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📆 Coming Soon on #NeonatologyNow #podcast! Our host Prof Dr Mario Rüdiger and his esteemed guest, Prof Dr Barbara Schmidt, discuss #Apnea of prematurity and the use of #caffeine. Tune in to hear what Prof Dr Schmidt suggests for #preemies with a diagnosis of apnoea. 🍼 #Neonatology #Pediatrics
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Dr Mari Viviers @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
NICU parents your voice matters! See opportunity for research on feeding infants after NICU from my doctoral student Carol Gilmore ⬇️
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Meet the antivax whisperer trying to turnaround Britain's child vaccine slump one family at a time. How does she do it? What does she say? Interview with Professor Elizabeth Whittaker: www.thetimes.com/article/26a8...
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Meet the antivax whisperer fighting the vaccine slump
Professor Elizabeth Whittaker convinces reluctant parents to get their children jabbed — and has seen the horrors that unchecked diseases like measles inflict
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Professor Yvonne Wren @yvonnewren.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Come and join our MISLToe_SSD team! Great opportunity for post doc in SLT, linguistics or psychology. www.nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curr...
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Current Vacancies | North Bristol NHS Trust
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Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) @neonatalnursesuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Join us for our brand new webinar series on Neuro-Protective Trauma Informed FICare When you attend an NNA online learning event you will receive a Reflective Practice Form and an NNA attendance certificate confirming the duration of CPD completed. Book here - FREE for NNA members 👉 bit.ly/43j2BuL
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨 It’s here! The #UKSRG2026 Abstract Portal is NOW OPEN! 🚨 Got research to share? We want to see it! 🧠🗣️ Submit your abstract via Oxford Abstracts (register if you haven’t already!)👇 🗓️ Deadline: 5th September 🔗 auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st...
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SLTLoulou - Louise (she / her) @sltloulou.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Great work carried out & presented by Jo Matthews & Audrey Martin. Essential contribution to evidence base on one-way speaking valve decision making in children & young people. Proud of you both 🌟 adc.bmj.com/content/110/... #paeds #tracheostomy #airway #OWV #LTV
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7867 To valve or not to valve – the decision making process in the paediatric tracheostomy ventilated population
Why did you do this work? The One-Way Tracheostomy Valve (OWV) has evolved beyond its label as a ‘speaking valve.’ A scoping review by Zabih et al. (2017) emphasized that much existing literature focu...
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UK Swallow Research Group @uksrg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 Another powerful theme at #UKSRG2026 : The Impact of Dysphagia We’re thrilled to welcome @SltSonja Sonja Jacobs, who’ll share her work on supporting the parents of premature infants after hospital discharge. 💡 #Dysphagia #SLT #NeonatalCare #UKSRG2026
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#ResearchTuesday! Late talkers may continue to demonstrate lower outcomes related to reading and other language-related skills into young adulthood. Learn more in #JSLHR: at.asha.org/DW @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps
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Late Talkers' Language, Metaphor, Theory of Mind, and Reading Skills at 9 Years of Age
Purpose: Prior work has found that “late talkers” (LTs) as a group continue to demonstrate lower language and reading outcomes compared to their ...
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Dr Mari Viviers @drmariviviersslt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Happy birthday to the Royal College of Speech and language therapists (UK) on their 80th anniversary. Poignant celebration at Southwark Cathedral with wonderful colleagues from across the UK #ConnectionMatters
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