Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🆓🔓 @tricmc.bsky.social Thomas Choo Heard Ng 2026 ASK Does More Speech Tx Lead to ⬆️ Results in CAS? doi.org/10.1111/1460... ANSWER Tx for CAS is 🎉 effective & leads to moderate generalisation; more weeks of tx lead to stronger gains than fewer weeks of tx. 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 🧒 #childSPEECHdis #apraxiadoi.orgDoes More Speech Therapy Lead to Better Results in Childhood Apraxia of Speech? A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of the Available EvidenceBackground In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number and quality of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) treatment research published. Much of this research has focussed on es..... 056
Reposted by Tricia McCabeAustralian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...au.news.yahoo.comAussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarmA phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney. 29274
Reposted by Tricia McCabeAFASIC @afasic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026DLD Day 16th Oct. DLD affects 1 in 14 children often unseen, often misunderstood. We’re walking on Wanstead Flats to raise awareness on the 18th Oct for families living with speech & language challenges. Every step helps make sure every child’s voice is heard. www.afasic.org.uk 012
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New #OpenAccess article on dose (intensity, frequency, duration) in childhood #apraxia of speech. doi.org/10.1111/1460...doi.orgDoes More Speech Therapy Lead to Better Results in Childhood Apraxia of Speech? A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of the Available EvidenceBackground In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number and quality of childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) treatment research published. Much of this research has focussed on es... 020
Reposted by Tricia McCabeSpeechCatcher | Transforming Speech Testing @speech-catcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Big news for SLPs! 🗣️ SpeechCatcher is now available on the Apple App Store for iPad in the US, Canada, and Australia. Why try SpeechCatcher? Save time, stay accurate, and get insights in seconds. Download the app and start your one month free trial here: apps.apple.com/ca/app/speec... 102
Reposted by Tricia McCabeChristina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Do you understand it!! 11148241616
Reposted by Tricia McCabeProf Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Try this at your next meeting #HigherEd #academia #sociology #GenAI 1148
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Delighted for my friends Aysin, Asena and Eddy to have this new publication. Really important that we develop #apraxia assessments for each language rather than simply adapting English ones onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comAssessment and Diagnostic Standards of Childhood Apraxia of Speech in Turkish‐Speaking Children: A Scoping ReviewBackground Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder for which assessment and diagnostic standards have been largely informed by studies of English-speaking populations. Evidence ..... 010
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026So delighted for Nancy Potter and the whole team - Babble Boot Camp - don’t wait till they’re not speaking. Proactive #apraxia Therapy works. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...pubs.asha.orgNovel Proactive Speech-Language Intervention Is More Effective Than Usual Care: Randomized Controlled Trial of Babble Boot Camp for Infants With Classic GalactosemiaPurpose: Speech and language disorders cannot be diagnosed and treated until children are approximately 2–4 years old. To investigate whether the... 011
Reposted by Tricia McCabeABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 07/09/2026More or Less quiz: Rank these weird words in order of how old they areabc.net.auQuiz: Is 'thingamijig' older than 'whatchamacallit'?It turns out we've been forgetting the names of things for quite a long time. Just ask … what's-his-face, who had that … doodad. 022
Reposted by Tricia McCabeTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Starting to write a paper on the philosophy of AI in evidence synthesis, focusing mainly but not exclusively on hermeneutic methods. Has anyone done this already? Grateful for leads. TY #philsci #episky 204416
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Having a paper accepted for publication never gets old #apraxia #bskyspeechie 040
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 01/09/20264️⃣4️⃣4️⃣4️⃣| 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES, Phon4 is here! Yvan Rose & Gregory Hedlund write: Phon4 is a major update bringing new and improved functions across the application, along with a fully revised and modernized interface. ⬇️⬇️ www.phon.ca/phon-manual/...phon.caGetting StartedPhon is a software program for building and analyzing textual and phonological data corpora. Originally created to support the study of child language development, Phon is used across a wide range of ... 121
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Its a pest species in Australia- do your best to remove it - took us about 5 years to remove it from our suburban block 120
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Updated CAS evidence brief now online #apraxia rest.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/u...rest.sydney.edu.au 130
Reposted by Tricia McCabeMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026@bbryanpreserve captures an attempted break-in: #AGoodPlace 451301181
Reposted by Tricia McCabeABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/08/2026Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancerabc.net.auAustralia on track to eliminate cervical cancer 20 years on from vaccine launchTwenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping. 064201725
Reposted by Tricia McCabeMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oh no Dolly Parton died. She gave one book a month to each enrolled child from birth until they enter kindergarten. Her Imagination Library gave books each month to 850,000 children in US, Canada, tUK, Australia, Ireland.In February 2018, she donated her 100 millionth free book. Thank you Dolly 11879271202
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Rapid Syllable Transition treatment in Brazilian Portuguese for kids with Speech Motor Delay. www.scielo.br/j/codas/a/x8...scielo.brRapid syllable transition treatment (<i>ReST</i>) em crianças com atraso motor de fala: estudos de casosRESUMO O Atraso Motor de Fala (AMF) caracteriza-se por dificuldade na execução motora,... 010
Reposted by Tricia McCabeRhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Stories like this remind us why we need the most diverse range of research possible. Never mind if the applicability is unclear, if it's not 'commercial', if it's 'niche'. Because you never know when you might need rapid rollout of a safe-for-little-penguins vaccine for H5N1. 💁🏻♀️ 34117
Reposted by Tricia McCabespeechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Against the clock: How time of day influences speech-motor learning in adolescents and young adults with and without childhood apraxia of speech pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42583873 011
Reposted by Tricia McCabeTonke @tonke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026His efforts on the bike were great, but this may have been my favorite Alaphilippe moment ever 1019926
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026🙃Nice to see this in print, @ashajournals.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social GaenorDixon @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social (2026). Upholding Children's Communication Rights by Ensuring Access to EBP Ax Tx. doi.org/10.1044/2026... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIESdoi.orgUpholding Children's Communication Rights by Ensuring Access to Full and Appropriate Language Assessments and Corresponding Evidence-Based InterventionsPurpose: This commentary is motivated by Articles 23 (children with disabilities) and 28 (right to education) of the United Nations Convention on... 0105
Reposted by Tricia McCabeAuditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Voice perception reflects graded sensitivity to acoustic cues along the auditory hierarchy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... How like a human voice? Acoustic patterns over time; Perceptual & neural features align most in the auditory association area; voiceness: a hierarchical encoding frameworksciencedirect.comVoice perception reflects graded sensitivity to acoustic cues along the auditory hierarchyHumans readily recognize voices in noisy, challenging environments, yet how the brain does this remains poorly understood. A key question is whether t… 021
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCourse Beetle @coursebeetle.co.uk · 19/08/2026🌍 Working with bilingual children and not sure where to start? Dr Sean Pert’s self-study course on speech & language disorders in a bilingual context is open anytime. Learn at your own pace, 4 months to complete. 👇coursebeetle.co.ukView anytime Bilingual children - speech disorders | Course BeetleView anytime course for those supporting bilingual children who speak two or more languages, and experience speech and language difficulties 011
Reposted by Tricia McCabeInternational Association for the Study of Child Language @iasclchildlang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026With Phon 4, researchers can look forward to a revolution: inter-operability between Phon, CLAN and Praat. Yvan Rose, Gregory Hedlund, and Brian MacWhinney describe this, plus PhonBank integration and new datasets in the latest Child Language Bulletin: www.childlanguage.org/latestbulletin 011
Reposted by Tricia McCabeThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 16/08/2026What many people think of as ‘play’ may not be play at all. In fact, these interactions could cause cats stress.theconversation.comPlay-fighting or just fighting? New study suggests a rethink on how we play with cats 1127
Reposted by Tricia McCabeKent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Good news everyone.abc.net.auMap finds native water mammal rakali thriving in Melbourne's waterwaysA native water mammal once dismissed as a "water rat" is quietly thriving in Melbourne's waterways, according to a new University of Melbourne mapping project. 66614
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Yay, Sydney sea eagles first hatch overnight #birds sea-eaglecam.org/video.html 010
Reposted by Tricia McCabeMatt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Open until filled (🚨🚨apply now!🚨🚨): Postdoc, speech acoustics and major depressive disorder, with me!, Northwestern Linguistics (working with folks in Psychology and Psychiatry). faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric... 11116
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Delighted to recieve this recognition of Mikaela Bow’s PhD work. Thanks @carolinebowen.bsky.social and sorry to hear about the tech probs. 020
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026🔒💰in @ashajournals.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social This tutorial can be used as a resource for SLPs who work with bilingual English-Spanish–speaking and monolingual Spanish-speaking clients. 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 🧒 #childSPEECHdis #languagedifference pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....pubs.asha.orgArticulation and Phonological Considerations for Working With Spanish SpeakersPurpose: Spanish is one of the most common languages spoken in the world and a growing language used in the United States; however, many speech-l... 021
Reposted by Tricia McCabeRhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Contemplating Uluṛu definitely puts things in perspective. Especially knowing there's more of it below the ground than above. Barring a direct meteorite strike or similar, it's going to still be here even when it floods with sea level rise or frizzles with climate change. 1273
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Presidential alert?! And no sound since my phone was on mute. 000
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Delighted to hear that allied health students in Oz will be able access practice placement payments from July 27. #bskyspeechies #slpeeps 030
Reposted by Tricia McCabeASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Global TALES is a culturally & linguistically adaptable free-access protocol that elicits personal event narratives based on common emotions & situations experienced by children. Read this Clinical Focus article, which is part of an #LSHSS forum! on.asha.org/4vYQLDa #SLPeepson.asha.orgClinical Focus: Clinical Applications of the Global TALES (Talking About Lived Experiences in Stories) Protocol for Assessment of Personal Event Narrative LanguagePurpose: Personal event narratives are a universal form of discourse across cultures and languages. Developing the ability to share personal even... 021
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Congratulations @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social www.asha.org/news/2026/as... <<ping>> @ashajournals.bsky.social @jillesenner.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social (📢@tim-kittel.bsky.social) @katharinebeals.bsky.social #AUGcomm 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES 063
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Interesting - two thoughts- sample bias, age. A lot of the time when I talk with other full professors from the USA I'm surprised how conservative they can be. Is this the US culture or the system they came through open science is not negotiable in my team and teams I belong to 000
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026🔐💰in @ashajournals.bsky.social LewisBA MillerGJ BenchekP SteinC & IyengarSK 2026 Spelling Outcomes in Adolescents & YP w #CAS #Apraxia Reveal Persistent Ling Deficits doi.org/10.1044/2026... ❗🦋 #bskySPEECHIES "spelling difficulties arise from underlying representations rather than articulation"doi.orgSpelling Outcomes in Adolescents and Young Adults With Childhood Apraxia of Speech Reveal Persistent Linguistic DeficitsPurpose: The aim of this study was to characterize sources of variability in spelling performance in adolescents and young adults with a history ... 011
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026🆓 🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES Lee, S. A. S., & Glasser, C. (2026). Language-Common and Language-Specific Error Patterns in Children With SSD: A Systematic Review. JSLHR, 69(7), 3085–3115. doi.org/10.1044/2026...doi.orgLanguage-Common and Language-Specific Error Patterns in Children With Speech Sound Disorders: A Systematic ReviewObjectives: This systematic review synthesized cross-linguistic evidence on speech error patterns in children with speech sound disorders (SSDs),... 022
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Atila-Çağlar, N., Noyan-Erbaş, A., & Köse, A. (2026). Investigating R'ships Among Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and Vocabulary in 🇹🇷Turkish-Speaking Preschool Chn With #childSPEECHdis. JSLHR, 69(7), 2928–2939. doi.org/10.1044/2026... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIESdoi.orgInvestigating the Relationships Among Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and Vocabulary in Turkish-Speaking Preschool Children With Speech Sound DisordersPurpose: This study aimed to examine the phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), and vocabulary skills of preschool children w... 021
Reposted by Tricia McCabeCaroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026🔐 in @ashajournals.bsky.social Weyland, M., Maes, P., & Kissine, M. (2026). Canonical Babbling May Differ Between #Autistic and Non-Autistic Toddlers in Consonant Transition Probabilities. JSLHR, 69(7), 3036–3048. doi.org/10.1044/2026... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #autismdoi.orgCanonical Babbling May Differ Between Autistic and Non-Autistic Toddlers in Consonant Transition ProbabilitiesPurpose: Canonical babbling is a key stage in speech development, and atypical canonical babbling can be an early sign of speech disability. Spee... 011
Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026In addition, there is an inbuilt bias against any child with a speech disorder such as childhood #apraxia of speech or #stuttering. Most adult readers read silently! Test comprehension! 141