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Lottie Gasparini

@lottiegasp.bsky.social
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Postdoc in language acquisition & #DevLangDis | Wurundjeri country. she/her Website: sites.google.com/view/lgasparini

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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Listen below to a podcast I did about how to help create social change amongst your circle of influence for important issues like animals, the environment, and social justice 🌱🌿🌳🐣🦥🐳
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Check out my latest publication testing #NaturalLanguageProcessing tools across 52 languages
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Listen here to a radio show I did about tactics for animal justice and social justice activists 🌿✊️ #activism #radicalflank #diversityoftactics #socialjustice #animalliberation
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I have finished my PhD and my thesis is available with open access! 👩‍🎓📕 Here is a summary of what I did in my PhD... hdl.handle.net/11343/369691 #thesis #phd #language #dld #devlangdis #childlanguage #prediction #causalinference 1/12
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Listen here for some animal themed trivia! #animalfacts #animaljustice #vegan #trivia
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Redenlab Inc. @redenlab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What if you could spot a child's language disorder before it fully emerges? Meet @lottiegasp.bsky.social, clinical linguist and researcher at Redenlab. Swipe through to see her work. 🧪🧠📈 Read more: 🔬 doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... 🧬 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... 📄 doi.org/10.1111/1460...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Tune in to 3CR on June 14th 1-2pm AEST for animal-themed trivia! Help keep animal advocacy on the airwaves of 3CR by donating and sharing! #animaljustice #animalfacts #vegan #trivia
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Freedom of Species @freedomofspecies.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Check out our latest episode where we tackle #vegan stereotypes. This one is for the #soyboys and the preachy vegans 🫘🌿 @3crmelbourne.bsky.social www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspe...
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Vegan stereotypes: In defence of the preachy vegan!
Soy boys, militants, social justice warriors, hypocrites, bleeding hearts, hippies... stereotypes abound when people talk about vegans! In today's show, Lottie, Nick and Hayden tackle these vegan ster...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
⭐️ Who to refer for language therapy? ⭐️ 🔍The MCRI Translation Centre for Speech Disorders is seeking views from parents, Speech Pathologists and other health or education workers ⬇️See flyer for eligibility and details. Interested? Scan the QR code or click the link in the post below 1/2
Share your views to improve research!
Seeking parents and health or education workers!
It is hard to know which children should see a Speech Pathologist before they start school. 
We are making a tool that will help spot which children should see a Speech Pathologist. 
In this study, we are asking for opinions about how to make this tool.

Are you:
A parent of a child 0-6 years old?
A Speech Pathologist? Or,
Another health or education worker who works with children 0-4 years old?
What is this study?
We are making a tool that will help spot which children should see a Speech Pathologist.
This study will get your opinions about how to make this tool useful and trustworthy for parents and health and education providers.
What’s involved? 
You will do the survey on your phone or computer.
The whole survey will take about 20 minutes of your time. It doesn’t need to be done in one go. You can save your progress and return later.
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Seeking parents and health or education workers!
Who can take part?
If you belong to one of the three groups below, scan the QR code or click the link to take part!
Parent of a child aged 0-6 years:
Who is 18+ years old and live in Australia
Link: https://redcap.link/whotoreferparents 
Speech Pathologist:
Who works in Australia with children 0-4 years.
Link: https://redcap.link/whotoreferslps 
Other health or education provider:
Who works in Australia with children 0-4 years. This includes:
Maternal and Child Health Nurses
Early Childhood Educators and Carers
General Practitioners
General Paediatricians
Link: https://redcap.link/whotoreferesps 
If you have any queries, please contact us at: loretta.gasparini@mcri.edu.au 
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Australians sign this petition asking the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to condemn Israel's aid blockade on #Palestine, sanction Israel and impose an arms embargo 🇵🇸 actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...
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Petition: Australia must end its support for Israel
The violence and abuse experienced by our flotilla crew is a direct consequence of the lack of action to stop Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Call on Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese to cond...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Listen here to radio show I did about the animal rights and political themes in #wicked the musical and films 💚💖🐐🐻🦁 #veganism #animalrights #consistentantioppression
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Listen here to a radio show I did on injustices behind the technologies and devices we use, and actions you can take #FreeCongo #Congo #FreePalestine #CobaltRed #BigTech #RiseAgainstBigTech 🇨🇩🇵🇸 www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspe... 1/2
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Let’s Get Ethical! A Guide to Leaving the World’s Most Egregious Tech Monopolies (Summer Special)
On this Summer Special, Lottie, Hayden and Nick discuss ways to use technologies more ethically. We will have one more Summer Special next Sunday Jan 18. Normal Freedom of Species programming will res...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Please sign this open letter from the Jewish Countil of Australia asking the Australian government to respond to the tragic Bondi attack with an approach that will bring us together and mitigate antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/
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SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I was on the #RCSLT podcast to discuss our #IJLCD paper where we identified 6 questions we can ask parents of 2-3-year-olds that have >70% sensitivity and specificity for predicting language outcome 8 years later when the child is 11-12yo #DLD #DevLangDis 1/3 www.buzzsprout.com/1211822/epis...
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IJLCD - Six questions, eight years later: identifying early predictors of language development - RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
In this podcast we chat with Loretta Gasparini about the research she led on finding a robust predictor tool for persistent language disorders. The aim of this research is to  identify young chil...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
⭐ New paper published in Psychiatry Research ⭐ 🧬 Available genetic measures can’t yet help us identify individuals with low language at 11 years #DevLangDis #DLD #genetics #language doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... 1/n
Available genetic measures can’t help us identify individuals with low language at 11 years. 1. What this research is about. About 1 in 10 children has a language disorder. It’s hard to identify these children when they are young. This makes it hard to give them the support they need. Picture of a parent looking at a child with a magnifying glass. 2. What the researchers did. We calculated a measure that represents part of an individual’s genetic risk of having lower language skills. We combined this genetic measure with parent survey questions to see how well they predicted individuals’ language at 11 years. Picture of a strand of DNA plus a parent holding a child and a survey. 3. What the researchers found. We repeated the results across 2 groups. In both groups, the survey questions could predict about three quarters of children with low language at 11 years. See the “Survey only” bars in the graph. A graph shows that "Survey only" had 86% and 74% accuracy. Our genetic measures did not improve how well we could predict individuals’ later language very much. The numbers for “Survey and genetics” are not that much higher than the dark bars. A graph shows that "Survey and genetics" had 87% and 78% accuracy. 4. What this means. Genetics can’t help yet with identifying most young children with language disorders. The best ways are still to ask parents questions, or for a clinician to observe the child. Learn more here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116826  or email: gasparini.lorett@gmail.com
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
- Per IOM, almost 3,000 ppl were displaced from Bara; at least 130 people have been reported missing since RSF took over Bara 2 days ago. ***** To aid in Elfashir relief effort, please contribute to the orgs listed under "urgent causes": linktr.ee/BSonblast #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
ACTIONS FOR SUDAN 🇸🇩 Follow @bsonblast.bsky.social for updates. Repost. Talk about Sudan. Donate: linktr.ee/hopeandhaven... ; www.darfurwomenaction.org/donate/ ; www.sudansolidarity.com #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This news is about as bad as it gets. After over 550 days of SIEGE, #Elfasher has now been taken by the Rapid Support Forces (a rebranded Janjaweed, who committed the 2003-5 genocide in Darfur)... and the violence that has followed is horrific. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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El-Fasher: Rebel group claims capture of key city in Sudan
The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My colleagues and I have designed short, game-like activities help us understand how 4-year-olds across Victoria develop and use language. Read more here: www.genv.org.au/blog/spotlig... #GenV #ChildHealth #MCRI #LanguageDevelopment #EarlyIntervention #ResearchImpact @redenlab.bsky.social
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New language tasks in GenV & Me: why your child’s voice matters - Generation Victoria
Most of GenV happens in the background. A few times a year we check in with families through short surveys or simple activities. Parents know their children best, so your input helps us learn things w...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 06/10/2025
Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...
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RADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder @radld.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What aspects of language does DLD impact on? Watch this to find out!
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I did a radio showing discussing visions of the future to save people 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👪 animals 🦘🦎🦐 and the planet 🌍🌿🌻 @freedomofspecies.bsky.social #HalfEarthSocialism #nottheendoftheworld #veganism
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
ACTION FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸 Write to representatives of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty demanding that they enforce the Arms Trade Treaty to stop military parts being sent to Israel to genocide Palestinians bdsmovement.net/resources/ur... #FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea 1/2
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Urgent action needed ahead of the Arms Trade Treaty Conference.
Pressure State representatives to fulfil their legal and moral obligations as explicitly detailed in the Treaty.
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Sign Oxfam's open letter demanding the Australian Government take decisive action now to stop violence and breaches of international law in Palestine #FreePalestine you.oxfam.org.au/gaza-not-in-...
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Not in My Name - Speak up for Gaza
Add your name to this letter to Prime Minister Albanese and demand that Australia takes decisive action now to stop violence and breaches of international law. Because peace and justice for Palestinia...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Justice for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu who was killed in the custody of NT police www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ju...
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Justice for Kumanjayi White
Warlpiri people and supporters are mobilising for justice and for systemic change in response to the horrific death in custody of Kumanjayi White. These immediate demands stem from deep grievances abo...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Dr Mohammed Mustafa has returned to Australia from Gaza and wants to open an Australian Children's Hospital in Gaza. Write to the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese & Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging them to meet with Dr Mustafa. Email your local MP urging them to support your call #FreePalestine 1/6
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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Early voting for the federal election is open from today. Looking for our how to vote cards? We've put them all on our website here: victoriansocialists.org.au/news/federal...
A graphic featuring VS federal election candidates and 'how to vote 1 Victorian Socialists'
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
You'd think there was nothing happening in Sudan by the way the mainstream media is ignoring it, as an IDP camp in N. Darfur is being brutally attacked by the RSF. Consider donating to the Darfur Women's Action Group doing incredible work for the last 15+ years. www.darfurwomenaction.org
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Darfur Women Action Group
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Friends please watch this powerful trailer or a documentary on the brave volunteers of Sudan’s emergency response rooms and donate to sudansolidarity.com if you feel so moved. instagram.com/reel/DIbf5lt...
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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Australian voters - sign the people’s pledge for Palestine to show your support for a #FreePalestine. Your election candidates will be notified so they know you will vote to support Palestine 🇵🇸 apan.good.do/votewithpale...
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Join me in supporting the Vote with Palestine Campaign
Palestine is on the ballot this election. With the federal election just weeks away, we have a crucial opportunity to elect representatives who will take a stand for justice and accountability. Togeth...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Sign this open letter to the Australian government asking them to take actions to support Palestine #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 overland.org.au/2025/04/an-o...
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An open letter to the Australian Government from Australian creatives and members of the public regarding Palestine - Overland literary journal
International law and the laws of armed conflict apply to all, but they are not being enforced against all. We submit that the Australian government should not continue to support Israel in the commis...
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My 11 year old niece has a social awareness project for school, and she decided to do it on #Sudan. She made this flyer, encouraging people to support all those affected. Scanning the QR code will take you to Sudan Solidarity Collective's donation page. #KeepEyesOnSudan
[Flyer with Sudan flag, QR code and speech bubble that says] Donate to Help People in Sudan:

Not many people know, but there is a war in Sudan. Two military groups are fighting for power over the country, supported by various world powers. These military groups are Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). 

While they have been battling over the country, 150,000 were killed and 13 million were displaced. The civilians have been through these hard times for almost 2 years now. The Sudan war is the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth. Donate to the civilians who are being hurt, killed and displaced now.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Follow the new Sudan Solidarity Collective account and help them increase their followers! Get updates on upcoming Workshops4Sudan events and information about how you can support mutual aid on the ground. → @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social → @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social → @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
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Food Empowerment Project @foodispower.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
⚠️ ❗ CALL TO ACTION: Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on March 8, as his eight-month pregnant wife looked on in horror and confusion. Sign the petition at buff.ly/YIO0uPf voice your opposition to the infringement of our rights! 📝 ✍️ 🤎
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are happy to launch Workshops4sudan to raise funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan. Our debut series features the writer and abolitionist @williamcson.bsky.social and the organizer, artist and social justice educator @raniawrites.bsky.social. To sign up go to: sudansolidarity.com/workshops4su...
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Workshops4Sudan – Sudan Solidarity Collective
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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just out - Open Access #DevLangDis #DLD Leitão, S., St Clair, M., Botting, N., Gibson, J. L., & Jackson, E. (2025). “They don't realise how hard he has to try every day”: The rewards and challenges of parenting a child with developmental language disorder. IJLCD . dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...
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“They don't realise how hard he has to try every day”: The rewards and challenges of parenting a child with developmental language disorder
Background An emerging body of literature explores the impact of living with developmental language disorder (DLD) on children, individuals and families. This work has identified a range of challeng...
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
⭐️ New speech app to make research easier for families⭐️ The MCRI Translation Centre for Speech Disorders is looking at an app testing #speech and #language in 4-year-old children ⬇️See flyer for eligibility and details. Interested? Register here: redcap.link/pv0sdgzi
New speech app to make research easier for families
Recruiting study participants now!
To check children’s speech, families often need to visit a clinic.
We made an App for parents to do the same checks at home.
This will save everyone time and money and let us help more young children.
Do you have a 4-year-old child? 
Can you and your child give 20 minutes to do the speech tasks at home?
You’ll then tell us in a survey how to make the app better.
What is this study?
We made an app parents can use to test speech in the home instead of in the clinic. 
The activities include your child describing pictures and repeating sounds. The App makes a sound recording and sends it to our team to analyse.
This pilot study will see how well these tools work at home without a researcher present. 
Who can take part?
We are looking for children aged 4 years (born July 2020-March 2021) and one of their parents, who:
Speak English at home,
Live in Victoria, Australia,
Are available in February 2025.
What’s involved? 
You will do the speech tasks with your child, at home. We’ll give you a link to open on your smartphone and you’ll help your child do the tasks.
We may ask that a researcher will be present on a video call (e.g. Zoom) to see how the tasks go. 
You will also complete some surveys about you and your child, and your experience doing the tasks.
The whole session will take about 10 to 20 minutes of you and your child’s time, and about an extra 10 to 20 minutes of your time.
How to register:
Visit here: https://redcap.link/pv0sdgzi 
Or scan the QR Code
Further queries
If you have any queries, please contact us at: loretta.gasparini@mcri.edu.au
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
⭐ NEW TOOL FOR PREDICTING LANGUAGE OUTCOMES ⭐ In 2 previous studies we identified sets of 5-7 questions we can ask parents when their child is 2-3yo that can predict >70% of kids with language difficulties at 11y. This is now available as a tool for researchers: github.com/lottiegasp/l... 1/13
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GitHub - lottiegasp/languagepredictions: Generating new predictions of language outcome
Generating new predictions of language outcome. Contribute to lottiegasp/languagepredictions development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dr Shaun Ziegenfusz @shaunziegenfusz.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Creating 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
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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Check out our new guidelines for creating accessible research summaries for the Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) community! doi.org/10.1111/1460... @shaunziegenfusz.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @michellestclair.bsky.social Nat Turner #DLD #DevLangDis 1/7
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How to create accessible research summaries for the developmental language disorder community
Background Eighty-five percent of medical research goes to waste, partly because it is not appropriately communicated to stakeholders. This represents a critical issue for the research community, es...
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