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Michelle St Clair @michellestclair.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New preprint: our first paper evaluating the Screening Tool for Adults with Non-Diagnosed DLD - a brief screening tool to identify undiagnosed #DevLangDis in adults. @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @drjennyg.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Word Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're launching this year's @radld.bsky.social #DLDday#D poster tonight. It's going to take DLD to a wider audience. We'll be on at 7pm. Join us. Facebook: www.facebook.com/radld.page YouTube: www.youtube.com/RADLD Instagram: www.instagram.com/radldcam/

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Mark Boyes @me-boyo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Join us at the 2026 @lalyp.bsky.social symposium. Bringing together research, practice, and lived experience to better support those living with language and literacy challenges. #DevLangDis @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @lizzjhill.bsky.social @robertpwells.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pauline Hanson has pledged to scrap SBS. The government needs to hear from the rest of us now. Sign the petition ✍️ getup.to/z8Y77DHrCdJwIo

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Mark Boyes @me-boyo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎉Congrats Zoe Campbell🎉 - 1st PhD paper accepted (Child Development). "Impact of children’s language ability on self-report assessment of mental health: Testing measurement invariance using Moderated Non-Linear Factor Analysis". @lalyp.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social #DevLangDis #MentalHealth

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Mark Boyes @me-boyo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📢📢 Our NHMRC-funded trial of Clever Kids - a Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation mental health promotion program for children with reading difficulties - has just been an accepted! Coming soon in British Journal of Educational Psychology (keep an eye out 👀). @lalyp.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social

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Word Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Speech and Language Therapy has been found to have a cost benefit ratio of 1:6.43. That sounds impressive to me!

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Mark Boyes @me-boyo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Updated version of our trial of Clever Kids; a mental health program for children with dyslexia. Attendance was associated with improvements in coping, emotion regulation, self-esteem (child-reported), anxiety, and depression (parent-reported) osf.io/preprints/ps... @suze-freogirl.bsky.social

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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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Share your views to improve research!
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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NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's our conference on Saturday and so we'll be live posting. The focus is Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), and we'll have lived experience, research, policy and practice. Follow and search #NAPLIC26 & #DevLangDis

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Members of @lalyp.bsky.social presented a symposium today on improving mental health outcomes for students with language & literacy difficulties @ the #DSF conference #DevLangDis #DLD @me-boyo.bsky.social @samueldcalder.bsky.social @lizzjhill.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social and co!

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Free downloads of the original Oral Inferential Comprehension Ix Prog by Dr Emily Dawes in English, PLUS a new translation (Cantonese) thanks to Assoc Prof Amy Wong and her team (as well as Swedish and French) @lalyp.bsky.social #DevLangDis languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/resources/fr...

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Oral Inferential Comprehension Intervention — #LaLYP

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

watched the Keynote with @karlamcgregor.bsky.social and Paula Orrego at the DLD Project Summit - thank you both, it was so interesting. I loved the way you made the facts come alive - thank you for sharing the stories of impact #DevLangDis

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

...and the DLD Project Summit has gone live - such an amazing programme - run don't walk. FREE for the DLD community and only $39 for professionals; all the programme virtual and accessible for 3 months viewing #DevLangDis thedldproject.com/dld-global-s...

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Carol-Anne Murphy @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

See below: we’re recruiting someone to join our thriving research active team! Teaching focus phonetics-PhD qualified in SLT/P and/or in phonetics/linguistics. Please share with interested colleagues and/or dm me if interested :-)

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sounds-project.bsky.social @sounds-project.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We’re inviting adults to take part in a research study exploring language and communication. This study is not just for students — anyone over 18 who meets the criteria can take part! Sign up using this link: redcap-2.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=Y...

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Lizz Hill @lizzjhill.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📣 Join our Community of Practice: Accessible Mental Health Services for People with Communication Difficulties. We care about inclusive #mentalhealth care for people with #communication needs. We offer: 🤝 networking + 📚 PD + 🔁 resources. All backgrounds welcome. Join here: tinyurl.com/53t9cu3z

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Lizz Hill @lizzjhill.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

SLPs involved as "last resort" for communication breakdown. Ambiguous referral pathways limit access and collaboration. What's needed? Stronger advocacy and education to improve understanding of SLP role in acute care for serious mental illness. Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“I didn’t even know you existed”: An exploratory study investigating factors impacting staff knowledge of speech-language pathology in serious mental illness patient care

This study examined knowledge of the role of the speech-language pathologist amongst patient-facing staff within an acute mental health ward in a tertiary Australian hospital. Annually, over 260,00...

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Sam Calder @samueldcalder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hello #SLPs! I’m sharing this recruitment flyer on behalf of my PhD student. We’re recruiting Australian kids with #DevLangDis to participate in a grammar learning task. We hope you can share with your families! EOI link also here: forms.office.com/r/zMKNiSs0SM

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Language and Literacy in Young People @lalyp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Huge congrats to postdocs extraordinaries @sylvanna-m.bsky.social and Adie Wilmot on winning the Curtin School of Population Health "Outstanding Professional Research Staff Award". And to Hannah Pizzey for winning the "Outstanding Research Assistant Award". Go team #LALYP!

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Michelle St Clair @michellestclair.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

So pleased to launch this project! Any adult with #DevLangDis, autism or dyslexia invited to participate! We are also looking for adults without neurodevelopmental diagnoses. Please RT! @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Opening address at the Curtin School of Allied Health Honours symposium @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy Tuesday E-DLD followers! Today's research study aimed to investigate how well adolescents with DLD comprehend Miranda Rights. Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/do-adol... YouTube summary: youtu.be/yOfZSeIJNDw?... #DevLangDis #DLD #legalrights #Mirandarights #justicesystem

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Dara DataVis @daraprojectcity.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The brilliant @edldproject.bsky.social has summarised one of our papers. Take a look below to see their accessible summary. #DataViz #DataVis #DLD #Aphasia #A11y

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Sign up to be an E-DLD member using the link below. For parents of children with DLD and anyone over the age of 16 with DLD: redcap.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=A... Researchers can sign up for our quarterly newsletters here: redcap.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=J... #DevLangDis #DLD #signup #EDLDmember

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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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sounds-project.bsky.social @sounds-project.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

📣 Recruitment update! The SoUNDS team has decided to open recruitment up to all adults, 18+. We’re validating a short screening tool designed to help identify undiagnosed DLD in adults. #SOUNDSProject #EDLD #UniversityofBath #devlangdis #Neurodiversity #InclusiveResearch #HiddenDisabilities

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/working... Audio summary: available on our website by following the link above and clicking the blue button labelled ‘Audio summary’. Full text available at: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #DevLangDis #DLD #workingmemory #centralexecutive #dyslexia

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Celebrating 50 years of the speech pathology course here at Curtin University

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We’re back with day 3 of our treasure hunt with the third clue to help you uncover the invisible developmental disorder we are describing! See our other social media platforms for the full clue. Check back tomorrow for another clue! #DevLangDis #DLD #youcantseeDLD #DLDday

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TICLD @ticld.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our Oxford colleagues in TICLD have produced this lovely blog on Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis in time for #DLDDay on this Friday 17th October. Have a read to learn more about DLD, and what we in TICLD are doing about it: www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/you-can... #bskySPEECHIES

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You can’t see DLD – but it is time the world did

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sounds-project.bsky.social @sounds-project.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The SOUNDS Project is working to change that by developing the first short screening tool for DLD in adults. Follow us to stay updated as we work to make invisible communication challenges visible.💜💜 #SOUNDSProject #edld #dld #dldday #dldawareness #devlangdis #youcantseedld

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