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Prof Ros Herman

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City St George’s, University of London. Speech & Language Therapist, yoga, dogs #languagedevelopment #signlanguage #literacy #deaf

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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Free hybrid one-day conference: Communication Interventions with Deaf People. Thursday 20 Nov 2025 18.00-20.00 GMT | 13.00-15.00 ET. BSL, ASL & IS interpreters provided tinyurl.com/In-Person-Lo... tinyurl.com/In-Person-Wa... tinyurl.com/Online-Zoom @charjenns.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social
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Book launch: Communication Interventions with Deaf People
Book launch: Communication Interventions with Deaf People
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National Children's Bureau @ncb.org.uk · 21/10/2025
Explore how we can involve disabled children and young people in research at the next #MakingParticipationWork Practitioners’ Community of Practice on 19 November, 10:00–13:00 online. Register now at buff.ly/0xHS4c6
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"It's just the weather" "Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time. Iceland was one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica." #GlobalBoiling
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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Brilliant episode of All in the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social, who discusses autism with @utafrith.bsky.social, brain development with @catherineloveday.bsky.social, as well as memory, music and other interesting topics www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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All in the Mind - Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories? - BBC Sounds
A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Deafness (CALDID) @caldid.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
My last vlog for my NIHR PCAF! I've so enjoyed stepping into research over the last two years and am excited for what's to come next! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18R... (English) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGaY... (BSL) @drfionakyle.bsky.social @rosherman.bsky.social
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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re... Anyone else going? Starts at 1.30 in Palmer, David Crystal is speaking at 4.30
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Reading marks 50 years of speech and language therapy - University of Reading
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Helen Spicer-Cain @helensc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thank you @foundationyearnet.bsky.social for the chance to speak at the annual conference about our fantastic health foundation courses at @citystgeorges.bsky.social It was a fantastic conference and so great to share good foundation year practice and reflect on future ideas
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RADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder @radld.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Developmental language disorder (DLD) refers to persistent difficulties in learning & using language. DLD is not well known in many parts of the world, including Singapore. Let's join hands to raise awareness and advocate for people with DLD on Oct 17, 2025 international DLD day #devlangdis #DLDday
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Word Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
If you are going to any 4 year olds birthday parties then take this flyer along. As well as contributing to an understanding of the impact of covid on child development, participants get to keep the tablet. UK only. #EarlyYears @bicycle-study.bsky.social
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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 11/07/2025
Thanks so much to @helenhayes.bsky.social for highlighting our #ReadingRights campaign with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social in the House of Commons yesterday.
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🆓🔓 @lucyrodgerssalt.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social... @rosherman.bsky.social 2025 Co-design to consensus: Identifying the core elements of a novel intervention for pre-school chn with #childspeechdis + #devlangdis doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps
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Co-design to consensus: Identifying the core elements of a novel intervention for pre-school children with co-occurring phonological speech sound disorder (SSD) and developmental language disorder (DL...
Introduction Although frequently seen in clinical services, there are few interventions which have been developed specifically to meet the needs of pre-school children with co-occurring features of a ...
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🆓🔓 @lucyrodgerssalt.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social ... @rosherman.bsky.social 2024 Shared characteristics of interventions for oral vocab & speech comprehensibility in p/schoolers w co-occurring #devlangdis & #childspeechdis doi.org/10.1136/bmjo... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES
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Shared characteristics of intervention techniques for oral vocabulary and speech comprehensibility in preschool children with co-occurring features of developmental language disorder and speech sound ...
Objectives To descriptively compare and contrast intervention techniques for preschool children with features of developmental language disorder (outcome: oral vocabulary) and speech sound disorder (o...
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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies
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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
30% book discount code below, also available online @speechandlanguk.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social @sallymorganslt.bsky.social @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @louiseok.bsky.social @senandunne.bsky.social @speechbite.bsky.social @ashajournals.bsky.social
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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with @kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies
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National Children's Bureau @ncb.org.uk · 17/06/2025
#RefugeeWeek2025 reminds us of the importance of compassion, understanding, and action. 👉 This insightful blog from @researchip.bsky.social explores trauma-informed and rights-based approaches for those working with people from war-affected areas. 📖 Read it here: lnkd.in/eJNfgWTd
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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 17/06/2025
Tackling social challenges needs evidence-led research. In our 2024 annual report discover how the Foundation supported our expert centres @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social & UK grant-holders with a charitable spend of £28.4m. ow.ly/E9NS50WaI3J
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Excited to be starting what I hope is the first of more boosting of good books in a barren land of book coverage by msm. First up, 5 questions with British-Jamaican deaf poet Raymond Antrobus. His memoir is out next month. Pre-order or library queue it up! buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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5 Questions With Deaf Author Raymond Antrobus
Hi everyone. Times are bad, but books remain good. Summer books, in particular, are looking stellar, and in time of basically nonexistent reviews and media...
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.
Jury Theorems for Peer Review
Marcus Arvan, Liam Kofi Bright, and Remco Heesen

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Peer review is often taken to be the main form of quality control on academic research. Usually journals carry this out. However, parts of maths and physics appear to have a parallel, crowd-sourced model of peer review, where articles are posted on the arXiv to be publicly discussed. In this article we argue that crowd-sourced peer review is likely to do better than journal-solicited peer review at sorting articles by quality. Our argument rests on two key claims. First, crowd-sourced peer review will lead on average to more reviewers per article than journal-solicited peer review. Second, due to the wisdom of the crowds, more reviewers will tend to make better judgements than fewer reviewers will. We make the second claim precise by looking at the Condorcet jury theorem as well as two related jury theorems developed specifically to apply to peer review.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Journal editors: this is great! scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/ You can automate simple tasks like "osf-check: List all OSF links and whether they are open, closed, or do not exist" as SO many papers claim to be preregistered but do not provide the preregistration
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Check Scientific Papers for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for automatically checking scientific papers for best practices using text search, R code, and/or LLM queries.
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DiscoverKelpies @discoverkelpies.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Fidan Meikle, author of My Name is Samim shares the importance of reading about other children’s lives. Thank you @booktrust.org.uk! Such an important book to share with children this #RefugeeWeek. www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi...
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Stepping into someone else's shoes: How diverse stories nurture…
Author Fidan Meikle shares the importance of reading about other children’s lives.
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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Interesting to see Enid Blyton is still so popular!
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Last summer, educators in 50 school settings around the UK asked children aged 4-10 to name their favourite book. Here are the results of this informal survey. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/chi... #teachertwitter #kidlit
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Children's favourites
100+ favourite children's books, as chosen by children aged 4-13, including titles by JK Rowling, David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson & more.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Join the E-DLD community by sharing your work in easy-to-understand summaries! Let’s make research more accessible to everyone. Templates and guidelines are available to get you started. 🔗 Visit our website: www.edldcommunity.org 📄 Access the summary guidelines: www.edldcommunity.org/guidelines
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Christopher Schroeder @chrislschroed.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"Sleep is not a luxury. It is your most powerful tool for appetite control, energy regulation and long-term health." theconversation.com/sleep-loss-r... @us.theconversation.com
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Sleep loss rewires the brain for cravings and weight gain – a neurologist explains the science behind the cycle
Even one night of inadequate sleep can shift your hunger into overdrive, setting off a chain reaction in the brain. But one or two nights of solid sleep can help reset metabolism.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/06/2025
The biggest change in reproductive rights in Britain in half a century has just passed the Commons. MPs have voted 379-137 to decriminalise abortion, preventing women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks.
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Agent-Based Conversational Dialogue (ABCD) is a novel method for simulating goal-driven natural spoken dialogues between two conversational artificial intelligence agents—AI clinician and AI patient, which vocally mimics aphasic errors. #SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES #aphasia
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ABCD: A Simulation Method for Accelerating Conversational Agents With Applications in Aphasia Therapy
Purpose: Development of aphasia therapies is limited by clinician shortages, patient recruitment challenges, and funding constraints. To address ...
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
'Evening in London' (2024) by Marek Krumpár marekkrumpar.com
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slashaug.bsky.social @slashaug.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Save the date: SIG for SIGN webinar on November 4th, 2025, 14.00-16.30h CET: "Assessing integrated skills: from understanding a (pre-recorded) signed text to signed productions". Registration is already available: eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EALTA SIG4SIGN Webinar 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: EALTA SIG4SIGN Webinar 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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slashaug.bsky.social @slashaug.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Call for participation Hey! Are you using sign language assessments in your professional life? Please participate in the survey! The survey is available in International Sign and English. Please share or forward the link to your network. dsgs.hfh.ch/index.php/63...
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires? @empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...
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Children of migrant Deaf adults
During my Master of Research (MRes) studies, whenever I met someone new, they would often enquire about what I was doing for my thesis. When I told them, I was doing research with hearing children …
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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations. academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6
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Preliminary development of the deaf childhood experiences scale
Abstract. We describe here the initial creation and validation of a tool designed to quantify certain unique life experiences of deaf individuals. The Deaf
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What a great paper. I miss Twitter (or what it once was), and @jmhenner.bsky.social in it. Thanks to @deafkilljoy.bsky.social and Rachael Gabriel for writing this. Make sure to check the other papers in the special issue in honour of Jon Henner. academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl...
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Layers, cells, and constellations: Jon Henner’s Twitter platform as crip activism
Abstract. This paper examines the role of Jon Henner’s Twitter presence (@jmhenner) as a form of crip activism, exploring how he used the platform to chall
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I just heard there will be at least 130 deaf participants at the next ICED conference in Rome. I went to two before, and I think there were never that many.
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Deafness (CALDID) @caldid.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Our data collection is complete! Here's another video explaining the 2nd and 3rd stages. Now to analyse the data and share our findings! @dcal-ucl.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social @drfionakyle.bsky.social @rosherman.bsky.social youtu.be/y_ceI4kzjW0?... (English) youtu.be/Jiq3FuEw838?... (BSL)
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Our Data Collection - Stages 2 & 3 (English)
YouTube video by Cultural & Lingustic Diversity in Deafness CALDID
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South Yorkshire's Community Foundation @sycf1986.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This #DeafAwarenessWeek, we're proud to spotlight our work with Doncaster & District Deaf Society. We're listening to the voices of the Deaf community, sharing their voices through Vital Signs and providing funding for a more welcoming centre. 👉 bit.ly/44z0lQa #ItsAGivingThing #SYCF #DeafAwareness
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VRAUK @vrassociation.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Did you know that under the Equality Act 2010, UK employers are mandated to make 'reasonable adjustments' for employees with disabilities, including those who are Deaf or have hearing loss? ​ rnid.org.uk/information-... #WorkplaceInclusion #DeafAwareness #EqualityAct #AccessToWor
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Deaf awareness
More than 18 million adults in the UK are deaf or have hearing loss. We can all play our part to be more deaf aware, both at work and in daily life.
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NLDS Papa J @ksujoel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My occasional reminder to myself that hearing breaks ARE self-care #DeafAwareness
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DSN @dsn-news.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Deaf Awareness Week in Macclesfield today 🙌💙 #macclesfield #deafawareness
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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 27/02/2025
New #aphasia and internet search paper from authors @hcid.city and @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social and beyond. openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34... 🔎 #Search 🔡 #Aphasia ✅️ #A11y
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City Research Online - "The Internet is Hard. Is Words": Investigating Information Search Difficulties Experienced by People with Aphasia and strategies for Combatting Them
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Nikki Botting @profnikkibotting.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very proud to be co-author on one of the @IJLCD editorial prize runner up papers with @lydiadavis.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @lucydipper all of @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social #blueskyspeechies #slpeeps onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Communication support in care homes for older adults: Views and reported practices of speech and language therapists and care home activities staff in the UK
Background Speech and language therapists (SLTs) and care home activities staff play key roles in managing and supporting the communication needs of older residents in care homes. However, the curre...
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citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social is hosting a FREE hybrid impact event for researchers & clinicians to learn ab exciting new developments in adults & paediatrics. 👉 SAVE THE DATE - 20th June 2025! Final programme to be shared soon but sign-up early: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Implementing Research Into Clinical Practice | City St George's, University of London
The Centre for Language and Communication Science Research at City St George's, University of London is excited to showcase their latest research.
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citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Welcome to the Department of Language & Communication Science @citystgeorges.bsky.social Meet all our staff on Blue Sky through accessing our starter pack below 👇 go.bsky.app/AaLouS
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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Deafness (CALDID) @caldid.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hi everyone, Our project involves collecting data in 3 stages. Please watch one of these videos for details about stage 1: youtu.be/-VHNUTR1Im0?... (English) youtu.be/4lWgmJEfgCE?... (BSL) youtu.be/ZVaLpxSBW80?... (Sylheti) Stages 2 and 3 are also nearly complete so stay tuned!
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Dr Fiona Kyle @drfionakyle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I gave an overview of the @ladderlab.bsky.social Preschool Language & Literacy study - a 3 year longitudinal study following 122 deaf and 113 hearing children from preschool to the end of year 2. This is a 4-wave multiwave study ending in 2026 - @rosherman.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social
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Dr Fiona Kyle @drfionakyle.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Prof @rosherman.bsky.social presented preschool spoken language outcomes in inclusive sample of deaf children: vocab & grammar, interesting discussion about morphology knowledge & how to improve it. Early exposure to an accessible language is critical @ladderlab.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social
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Dr Fiona Kyle @drfionakyle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We presented our new findings about home literacy environments in #deaf children & emergent literacy: lots of reading activities happening! Child interest was critical for deaf children's emergent literacy - how do we increase child interest in reading? @rosherman.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social
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Dr Fiona Kyle @drfionakyle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Dr Katie Mason presented our @ladderlab.bsky.social research on the validity of using the #GAPS to screen for grammatical difficulties in preschool #deaf children using spoken language - high sensitivity/specificity in preschool & at the end of reception @rosherman.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social
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