Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaNAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 16/10/2025A step forward for Developmental Language Disorder #DLDday 093
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Check out our new reports for teachers, schools, specialists & policymakers supporting children with #SEND in mainstream schools. Our #SLCN report covers: ✏️ Early identification ✏️ Classroom strategies & interventions ✏️ Collaboration with families & specialists #DevLangDis 282
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025📢 Calling UK parents of children with dyslexia We are conducting a research study to understand how children with dyslexia in UK primary schools experience learning, assessment, and support. 🔗 Learn more or sign up: tinyurl.com/ckvv5hsf #Dyslexia 012
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Excited to share our new paper, where we propose that inefficient anticipatory mechanisms may represent a common underlying thread linking the spoken language, reading, and handwriting difficulties associated with dyslexia. Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 021
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaUCL IOE PHD @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Are you an educator interested in learning more about supporting children with developmental language disorder? Join the next Nasen Twilight Talks on May 8th, with @juhaynat.bsky.social. Book your place now! #DLDnasen.org.ukTwilight Talks Research Series: Identifying and supporting children with developmental language disorder in the classroomIn this session, Dr Juhayna Taha Institute of Education, UCL’s faculty for Education and Society, will talk about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). 165
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaUCL IOE PHD @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Join us at the London International Conference on Inclusive Education, on July 28-30 2025! Engage in interdisciplinary discussions on #InclusiveEducation with more than 200 academics from across the world. Grab your early bird ticket now: www.licie.co.uk @ioe.bsky.sociallicie.co.ukHOME | LICIE 2025Your main source of information for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education (LICIE) 154
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaAlex Beardmore @alexbeardmore.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Hi everyone, newbie here! 👋 I am a trainee Speech and Language Therapy student at Birmingham City Uni on the Masters pathway - currently in my final year 😆 Please feel free to signpost me to profiles that I can follow to build my connections. Any tips would also be greatly appreciated! 😊 8288
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaNAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 04/04/2025We need your help! We are looking for any professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder. Our networks relate to children, so please help get our survey about setting up a UK wide network to those who work with adults with #DevLangDis forms.gle/n2v5T7VK2mDH...forms.gleWorking with Adults with DLD networkNAPLIC is planning on starting a network for professionals who work with adults with DLD. We want to know your views so that we build them into our plans. Network meetings will be termly, online and f... 1917
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaNAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Abraz Hussein, an adult with DLD tells his story. He got through primary without much support, but at start of secondary was permanently excluded. Then went to PRU before getting diagnosed and going to a special school for speech and language. Support makes all the difference! #NAPLIC25 #DevLangDis 33815
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Join us on 15 April for a seminar by Professor Elinor Saiegh-Haddad on "Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications", hosted by OE's Centre for Language, Literacy, Numeracy Online or in person (London) www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...ucl.ac.ukLiteracy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications | IOE - Faculty of Education and SocietyElinor Saiegh-Haddad will discuss diglossia in Arabic, and how this linguistic distance impacts children. 000
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaRachel Sievers @sieversslt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I've joined Blue Sky to raise awareness about developmental language disorder (DLD) in adults. It so often gets left out of discussions about neurodivergence. I'll be posting more on this soon. #DevLangDis #RADLD #NAPLIC #AFASIC #inclusion #neurodiversity #neurodiversityatwork 3227
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaUCL IOE PHD @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025There is still time to submit your abstract for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education! 🙌 Due to overwhelming demand, the call for papers has been reopened from March 3rd to 12th only. Join us and submit your abstract now! @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social www.licie.co.uklicie.co.ukHOME | LICIE 2025Your main source of information for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education (LICIE) 001
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaKate Smith @ksmithaus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025📣 Calling on #SLPs 👈 We want to hear from #SLPs #SLTs about what you want from digital evidence tools to help you find research evidence easily. You're invited to participate in focus groups or an interview, register your interest here bit.ly/3D4QI2s #bskySPEECHIES @leannetogher.bsky.social 259
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaUCL IOE PHD @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Wondering how best to support pupils with #SEND in your setting? @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social's suite of online short courses provides self-paced learning to help you develop quality #InclusivePractice. Find out more and book here!buff.lySpecial Educational Needs and Disability (SEND): Developing Quality Inclusive PracticeSuite of online courses for SENCOs, early career teachers, learning support assistants and teaching assistants. Gain the the knowledge and skills you need to improve provision in your school for… 083
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaCathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSkyedzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com 0917
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaSaloni 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 Dr Juhayna TahaSpeech and Language UK @speechandlanguk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025If the neurodivergence taskforce wants to make schools better for neurodivergent children, why aren’t the 1 million children with Developmental Language Disorder part of the conversation?😣 This is totally unacceptable! Don't you agree, Department for Education? #TheForgottenMillion 24225
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaUCL IOE PHD @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Join us to hear from over 200 speakers from 4 continents. Book your ticket now for the London International conference on #InclusiveEducation! @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.socialbuff.lyHOME | LICIE 2025Your main source of information for the London International Conference on Inclusive Education (LICIE) 051
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaRADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder @radld.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Since 2018, we have organized and supported events around the world to let more people know about developmental language disorder (DLD). This year's DLD day is on Oct 17. To prepare for it, we will restructure our website radld.org. Let us know how to make it more useful for you! 1108
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025🇬🇧 UK SLTs – LAST CHANCE! 📢 Share your experiences in supporting children’s reading, writing, and spelling to help shape clearer guidelines on UK SLTs' role in supporting children's written language skills. It only takes 10 minutes! tinyurl.com/64cfcewv 011
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaWord Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Here this morning live posting of the #IJLCDwinterLecture by @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social & @cristina-mckean.bsky.social. What makes language interventions work - exploring the active ingredients #DevLangDis 1114
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaUCL Centre for Inclusive Education @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Join our free online event at 5pm on 12 Feb to learn how to become a dyslexia specialist and gain a Master’s degree from the world’s #1 university for Education! Sign up: tinyurl.com/UCLdyslexia ✅ Achieve AMBDA, APC & ATS/APS qualifications ✅ In-person & online learning 001
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Our national survey with in-service UK SLTs is showing similar findings.. this highlights the importance of establishing guidelines on the role of SLTs in supporting children’s written language skills 021
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025We hosted a workshop in Amman brining together teachers, teacher trainers, the Jordanian ministry of education, and our partners Queen Rania Foundation. We discussed our research findings and received very valuable feedback and suggestions for our work on oral language development in Jordan 🇯🇴 051
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaWord Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Spoken language and #oracy have never been more important. In this era of great change 'Our students need to be more human than ever before.' Loved this point by @creativehigg.bsky.social at today's Finding My Voice webinar. 182
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Follow us for: ✅Research-summaries in sketchnotes ✅Education news from Wales ✅Professional learning that has impact! Bluesky - @impactwales.bsky.social Instagram - @ImpactWales Facebook - our private group for Wales: www.facebook.com/gro... Threads - @ImpactWales 051
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025📍🇯🇴 In Jordan this week, visiting schools from our project on promoting children’s oral language development. We learned a lot about the language environments and available resources in these schools, some of which are beginning to embed inclusive education to support children with special needs 051
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaNikki Botting @profnikkibotting.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Caregivers of toddlers born in 2022! We need your help collecting new information on early language behaviour - please complete out survey below 🙏🏻 **Previously the survey closed for non-English folk, but now everyone can respond - please try again!** cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...cityunilondon.eu.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. 067
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaCaroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A comment at work today has prompted me to send this reminder: The evidence does *not* support the idea that screen-time universally causes children harm. Over-simplifying the complex reality of childhood *does*. This letter is 8 years old but still very true: www.theguardian.com/science/head...theguardian.comScreen time guidelines need to be built on evidence, not hypeOpen letter: There is an important debate to be had about screen time, but we need quality research and evidence to support it 083
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaSarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London 24540
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaCarol-Anne Murphy @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If you are a researcher/academic who teaches about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), in undergraduate/postgraduate degree courses please see the survey linked here: 022
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025📢CALLING UK #SLTs📢 Research shows that SLTs often feel unprepared to support written language difficulties. Help inform the development of guidelines on the role of UK SLTs in supporting children with literacy difficulties by sharing your experiences tinyurl.com/64cfcewv 030
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Excited to be co-leading the language development module this term with my brilliant colleague Dr Joanna Kolak! We had our first session today and got to know our students who come from the UK, USA, China, Hong Kong, Greece, and Mongolia ! Looking forward to teaching and learning from them 😊 040
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaKathy Leadbitter @kathyleadbitter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Exciting new postdoc job opportunity working with the National Autistic Taskforce, Yo Dunn, @suereviews.bsky.social, David Orr and myself. Two-year NIHR-funded project to improve residential and supported living services for autistic adults. Pls share. DM for info. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI718/r...jobs.ac.ukResearch Fellow (Grade 7) 1.0FTE, fixed term for 24 months at University of SussexDiscover Research Fellow (Grade 7) 1.0FTE, fixed term for 24 months jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board. 11722
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaWord Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Excellent article for anyone interested in learning more about dyslexia. And whist you're at it, give the inspirational @damsoned.bsky.social a follow. 0117
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaClaudia Peñaloza @claudiapenaloza.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The International School on #Psycholinguistics, #Neurolinguistics and #Clinical #Linguistics (University of Novi Sad, Serbia April 7-11, 2025) is still receiving applications (deadline: Jan 15). Please check it out & spread the word 🐦🐦 #SLPeeps! www.ff.uns.ac.rs/sr/studijski...ff.uns.ac.rs5th International School on Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Clinical Linguistics | ФФ 145
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 06/01/20251/4 This new study sheds light on the gap between research and practice and shows that there is a misalignment between the definitions of #DevLangDis & #Dyslexia used in research vs by school-based professionals 144
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 06/01/2025First day back to work ! Had a very busy day delivering two workshops to over 50 teachers from 10 schools across South London. The focus of the workshop was on SLCN and discussed strategies and resources necessary for creating inclusive,communication-supporting classrooms. @ucl-ioe-cie.bsky.social 060
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Reading is not just about having a love of books, nor just being able to accurately lift words off the page. It's a product of both. The simple view of reading, by Gough & Tunmer (1986) is something all teachers should be aware of. Professional learning for teachers www.impact.wales 183
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Looking for an Arabic-speaking UCL student to volunteer to assist with a research project on Arabic language development. For more details, contact me at j.taha@ucl.ac.uk or your can check the AD on here: moodle.ucl.ac.uk/mod/assign/vie…moodle.ucl.ac.uk 012
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaWord Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 03/01/2025“I would say that when you’re talking about SEND, language is nearly always going to be a part of that, so language should be seen as a central aspect of provision for children with special educational needs, too.” Prof. Charles Hulme. 0104
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaSaloni Krishnan @salonikrishnan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025My PhD student Hannah is looking for adults with #DevLangDis and #autistic adults for an interview about reading experiences. Do get in touch with her! 1923
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaLucy Bryant @lucyebryant.bsky.social · 02/01/2025I came across this gem yesterday on evidence for recasting as a method for modelling grammar pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe Efficacy of Recasts in Language Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisThis systematic review and meta-analysis critically evaluated the research evidence on the effectiveness of conversational recasts in grammatical development for children with language impairments. Tw... 022
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaDr Shaun Ziegenfusz @shaunziegenfusz.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Creating Accessible Research for the #DevLangDis Community A lot of research goes to waste 🗑️ This is partly because researchers rarely share results with the non-scientific community. Even when findings are shared, people with communication disorders find it hard to understand the research. 1/3 12110
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaDr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024📢We are looking for #UK #SLTs who work with school-age children and would like to hear about your experiences in supporting children with literacy difficulties! It only takes 10 mins to complete our survey: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... #dyslexia #SLCN 024
Reposted by Dr Juhayna TahaCaroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 23/12/2024A few years ago I realised that only a few men were applying for RA jobs in my lab. I removed "experience working with children" from the criteria and that changed overnight. Teenage boys don't get to do work experience with kids, so they can "seem" less qualified. But some of my best RAs are men. 26615
Dr Juhayna Taha @juhaynat.bsky.social · 22/12/2024The Christmas lights trail at Blenheim Palace is magical 🎄✨ 030