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Louise Coigley

@lisntell.bsky.social
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MRCSLT, Founder Lis'n Tell:live inclusive storytelling. Founder: #SaLTBkGrp Co-Founder/ Chair of Storytelling in SaLT Clinical Excellence Network(CEN) Lived experience #scoliosis #spinalfusion #talipes www.lisntell.co.uk #bskyspeechies

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Soon I hope to share about the wonderful Mexican women who collaborated with me in translating the words by #FridaKahlo for #WingstoFlyonCreativityandEndurance Meanwhile it was a thrill to see our book as one of three chosen to display by Waterstones TrafalgarSq. Still pls spport independent 📚shops!
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Getting nervous and looking forward to #storytelling again with the fabulous Melody Grove and Aly Macrae #BacktoBack #FridaKahlo followed by workshops in Oct with wonderful w'shop facilitators in #painting #drama #mindfulness #creativewriting
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thrilled my book of pictures & quotes by #FridaKahlo is selling in so many countries 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿,🇬🇧 🇦🇺,🇳🇿🇺🇸, Scandinavia,🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇷🇴, 🇸🇰 🇿🇦! Incredibly touched by messages like:"Reading your introduction made me feel understood"-young woman with #scoliosis #spinalfusion ❤️‍🔥 #TateModern @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Had fascinating, moving couple of afternoon/evenings introducing #LisnTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling face to face to #SpecialEducation Teachers & Movement/ #ArtTherapists frm India, Malaysia,Taiwan & Sri Lanka 🇮🇳🇲🇾🇹🇼🇱🇰Sharing tales, acknowledging different cultures, faiths, customs. #EurythmyIndia
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At #FridaKahlo the Making of an Icon reception #TateModern. Holding my new book in wonder. This painting "The Frame" encouraged me as a #speechandlanguagetherapy student with severe #scoliosis and #spinalinjury. Wonderful to be invited to introduce, curate, edit this bk @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Surviving the pain that nearly incapacitated me as a #speechandlanguagetherapy student. Sat 5Sept7.30pm London: #music #poetry #storytelling #songs with magical Olivier nominated Melody Grove and alchemical Aly Macrae-nominated Musical Director 2025/The Stage magazine rsh.anth.org.uk/event/back-t...
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Back to Back - Rudolf Steiner House
Music Poetry Storytelling with Louise Coigley Honouring the centenary of Frida Kahlo’s accident 17 September 1925 Storyteller, speech & language therapist and spinal injury survivor Louise weaves her ...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Warmest Congratulations to @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social !
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
FAB party for my book #wingstofly on Creativity & Endurance in the words & pictures of #FridaKahlo. Thrilled Fanny Mozu-Simpson came: a ' #scoliosiswarrior sister', Senior Teaching Fellow in diagnostics & anatomy to medical students @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Her www: fusednotfragile.co.uk
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#FridaKahlo 's letter to #GeorgiaOKeeffe is quoted in full in my new book: #WingstoFly on Creativity & Endurance: "...I would like to tell you everything that happened to me since the last time we met, but most of them are sad and you mustn't know sad things now...never forget your wonderful hands"
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oh Thank you kindly @carolinebowen.bsky.social ! Such a surprise being commissioned for this. It took me to old archives & FK's last lover's nephew, whom I found in 🇫🇷. My personal connection to FK goes back to my 20s, living with scoliosis & the guy who brought her work to the UK. All in the intro❤️‍🔥
Some of the books where I found references to Frida Kahlo's words as well as paintings.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social Still thrilled about me new book published yesterday. Frida Kahlo's quotes and pictures personal connection to her life & work. September Publishing says it's already stocked:UK; Scandinavia;Spain; Australia; New Zealand; Germany;France;Romania;Slovakia & S Africa❤️‍🔥
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My book is out today!"Wings to Fly on Endurance and Creativity" in the words and pictures of #FridaKahlo - commissioned by September Publishing -compiled, edited, introduced by me. Stocked in the UK Scandinavia;France;Spain;Germany;Italy;Romania; Slovakia;;South Africa;Australia & New Zealand asap
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Funny how a child of about six, who doesn't know you, screeching to a halt on his bike right near you, and smiling at you broadly from under his peaked cap can lift your whole day #justhappened
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New book for word nerds everywhere. Anatoly Liberman reviews Unabridged by Stefan Fatsis blog.oup.com/2026/04/unab...
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Unabridged: some thoughts on a new book about dictionaries and words
Unabridged refers to the title of Webster’s great dictionary. The author of the book, published by Grove Atlantic Monthly Press (New York) in October 2025, is Stefan Fatsis.
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J & R Press @jandrpress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Now available internationally as an ebook for Kindle from Amazon!! @carolinebowen.bsky.social ‬@pamelasnow.bsky.social #bskySPEECHIES #teachers #families & #youngpeople #SLT www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=bowen+ev...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Wonderful time gathering plants for The Dusk Gardener, picked this morning by two seven year olds I help with on Fridays - a bit of biodynamic nutritious heaven - both the food and blossoms and being with them...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
How was World Book Day? Any favourite costumes or books?! Here's a brilliant staircase & graffiti at the schl where I ran Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling part1-2day training for the Children's Integrated Speech & Language Therapy Service for Hackney and the City which was a very vivacious day!
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Excited about new start with #SaLTBkGrp this week Ch1 8-9.15pm GMT online-let me know if you'd like to join friendly, listening convo: www.routledge.com/Neurodiversi...
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Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice for Speech and Language Therapists: Supporting Curiosity, Compassion and Conversation
Are you a speech and language therapist (SLT) working independently, within a speech and language therapy team, or in training? Do you, or might you work with autistic or other neurodivergent people? ...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"Behavioral research has shown deeper semantic encoding of text frm paper than frm screen...findings provide evidence of differncs in brain responses to texts presented in print& digital media, includg deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts."Pub: May 22, 2024 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Middle-schoolers’ reading and lexical-semantic processing depth in response to digital and print media: An N400 study
We report the first use of ERP measures to identify text engagement differences when reading digitally or in print. Depth of semantic encoding is key for reading comprehension, and we predicted that d...
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
WHO DOESN'T 😍LOVE😍 AN INTERESTING QUESTIONNAIRE? Mohammad Hossein Ghane PhD (given name: Ghane) researcher in applied #linguistics at Yazd University in 🇮🇷Iran seeks native English speakers for an online survey. (survey.porsline.ir/s/vUsWyK8P) www.researchgate.net/profile/Moha... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
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Sentence Recognition and Interpretation Questionnaire
Create surveys with Porsline for free and make decisions with its real time interactive reports.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
SO interesting - now we need research (anybody know of any?) where we measure how iconic gesture supports intonation-which supports comprehensn and recall of story/vocab. I observe 100's times a yr running trainings how gestures linked to spkn concepts help the voice to convey meaning & experience.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Touchd to be invitd to the Memorial Wednesday night for the wife of #SirMarkRylance: composer & playwright #ClaireVanKampen I've never wept so much at a performance. Exquisite portrayal of power of #music & #song thro CVK's wit & wisdom, MK's inner child, #MelodyGrove's grace & #IestynDavies voice!👏
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Incredible response to Scoliosis Support & Research Film. So many messages from #scoliosis warriors feeling recognised & encouraged by the documentary. And one who didn't, whom we are rallying around ♥️🤞 Very pleased & amazed to have been involved www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqZI...
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Living With Scoliosis | Documentary Short
YouTube video by Scoliosis Support & Research
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A sign of something not working or working that I get invited back again & again!? Lis'n Tell #liveinclusivestorytelling back at Blossom House Schl www.blossomhouseschool.co.uk 3rd time (intro day),then 4th time back to Athens, Greece, to train Speech Pathologists in the Spring 2026 (2 days: Part 1)
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Blossom House School - Home
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Excitedly preparing to train 50 Attention Autism Practitioners day after tmw #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #InclusiveEducation #autismawareness Gathering my #storytelling tools....only sad to be going away from husband The Dusk Gardener, and lovely SaLT who stays with us Monday nights.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
#SaLTBkGrp tonight:"Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training" Grant Blasko, Janice Light, David McNaughton, Bob Williams & Jordyn Zimmerman-Published online: 13 Jun 2025.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Some poignant and celebratory moments in the Q'nA at the launch of Living with Scoliosis photo courtesy of Amelie scoliosis.with.at c/o scoliosis research uk ssr.org.uk #scoliosis #scoliosisawareness #scoliosiswarrior
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Amazing to be in this documentary short & to meet the other wonderful participants.c/o Scoliosis Research UK 🤍 I am the oldest, youngest is six.She was dressed like a sparkly angel & said " I wd tell someone [just diagnosed] I have scoliosis too, you're not alone".
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Lovely to be called in as a kind of #storytelling ambulance - and great to be able to rearrange day so can be there to run #CPD for #Teachers #Authors #Storytellers #Therapists #liveinclusivestorytelling #lisntell #education #accessibility www.hastingsstoryfest.org.uk/2025-adults :
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Feels extraordinary and very moving to be featured in this documentary. Looking forward to meeting the others at the launch on October 28th London #scoliosis #spinalsurgery #couragetogether #wearyourcurve youtu.be/p-0xewRfPNc?...
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Living with Scoliosis | Documentary Trailer
YouTube video by Scoliosis Support & Research
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
NEXT #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 6 NOV 25 8-9.15pm GMT Nothing about #AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development & professional training. Grant Blasko,Janice Light, David McNaughton,Bob Williams & Jordyn Zimmerman(2025)41:3, 184-194 doi.org/10.1080/0743...
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Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training
Historically, priorities for research, technology development, and professional training in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) have been identified largely by nondisabled...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#SaLTBkGrp yesterday eve loved the respect, warmth, listening betwn us conversing abt respect 4 stammerers experience.The equality betwn us:one in her sixties doing a PhD, one in her 20s entering 3rd yr of SaLT trng-me- retired from work with clients this wk & those still in full tilt employment💓📗
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
#SaLTBkGrp tonight - new autumn phase : "Understanding the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering Can Improve Stuttering Therapy" Seth E. Tichenor, Caryn Herring, and J. Scott Yaruss Top Lang Disorders Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 57–75 © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
friend to me to old Hastings this eve....
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A friend just told me she overheard a boy ask in a DIY shop a few weeks ago:"Do you have a de-humiliator?"🌞💦
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tmw! Invited to run training day & do some storytelling at Ringwood Shelling School, where I lived & worked as a volunteer Carer/ #SaLT for 6 yrs with chn with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities& autism.They taught me how to be a Human B & SaLT. Now: ⬆️ EB oral #storytelling rhythm gesture.
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Hey! 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES a survey from #SLP2b @emmamcvean.bsky.social -- click the LinkedIn survey link twice. 🙏PLEASE BOOST> @lisntell.bsky.social @ficontextual.bsky.social @nesltresearch.bsky.social @apinchofsalts.bsky.social @gillianrudd.bsky.social 🌎🌍🌏DO YOU SEEK INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS, EMMA?
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Almost had to stop driving last night listening to this riveting radio-deep,tender, funny& so respectful towrds the individual subject & listener. "Oh the Humanity!" as an 11 yr old with cognitive difficulties exclaimd to me once 1/2 thro a spontaneous story he told of love, loss & reconciliation...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Fine group of Speech Pathologists, 1 #OT and a manager #childrenscare who took part in #Lis'nTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling part 1 training, end of May this year. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 #Lis'nTell core practitioner #SaLT @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying me & to fabulous 🇲🇹 hospitality, commitment & experience 👏🏼
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Great news! Congratulations to, from July 1st 2025, Distinguished Professor @pamelasnow.bsky.social one of the most compelling, clear and compassionate lecturers and writers I have encountered. pamelasnow.blogspot.com #literacy #education Thank you for your work 🏚️ 📖
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The Snow Report
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Unexpected article abt the essence of Lis'n Tell:live inclusive storytelling by 🇲🇹 #SLP Veronica Montanaro (PhD student Leeds Uni) b4 our recent 🇲🇹 visit. Many thanks to VM🌞 for inviting me to run Part 1 again & to @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying brilliantly🌟 www.taascmalta.com/blog/span-cl...
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
DAY 1️⃣ #push-upCHALLENGE 3,214 push-ups in 23 days www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... Our 😅sweaty efforts are dedicated to: Students navigating school pressures, feelings of isolation or "difference", and social media anxiety. www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... 💰YOU CAN DONATE!
A logo representing the BB-Team. It shows two codgers and three younger people doing push-ups. The banner reads "Push for youth mental health: Stronger together.
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Training Attention Autism Advanced Practitioner Group this wk: participants frm South Africa, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong. Finding tales frm each culture to practise storytelling eg: iconic gesture/memory & intonation; imagination/seeing what you're saying (or feeling if aphantasic);rhythm 'n role
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Back from training #SLP team in Malta🇲🇹 with Lis'n Tell Core Practitioner #SLT Caroline Casula. Loved their expressiveness, engagement, insights. Moved by 'de-institutionalisation' in senior /child care homes & how they see Lis'n Tell part of that. Special Assistance at airports fantastic each way ♿
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Next #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 3July 8pm BST is about rdcu.be/epDVP, plus paper by autistic adults abt their GLP related experience (I don't have link yet). Also interesting re GLP history/ backgrnd to the Systematic Rev/ GLP NLA/ #languagedevelopment/ #SLP for #echolalia: thedldproject.com/gestalt-lang...
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Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Re-reading The Future of Neurodiversity. "Neurodivergent Power would place our sights squarely on our collective ability to resist the entire economic system that disables and discriminates against us". @drrobertchapman.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-fu...
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The Future of Neurodiversity - Boston Review
The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🆓 🔓 Alyssa Kuiack and @larchiba.bsky.social #DevLangDis in #PlainEnglish #easyEnglish 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES Kuiack, A. & Archibald, L (2019) Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About. Frontiers for Young Minds. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
Using language is a skill that allows us to share our ideas and feelings, to learn in school, and to understand the world around us. Unfortunately, using and understanding language is not easy for eve...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Finding this so interesting and looking forward to conversation this evening #SaLTBkGrp about: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin...
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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As decided last time #SaLTBkGrp Thurs Jun 5, 2025 8:00-9.15 PM London NEW Topic: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin... #SaLT #SLP #Disability #conversation #sharedexperience #livedexperience Do let me know if you'd like to join this new phase either by DM or email me via website: www.lisntell.co.uk 🙏🏼📚🫖☕
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Learning from the experiences of disabled SLTs | RCSLT
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