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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · 9d

Good news- more #SSD research happening in the UK. This project will look at the feasibility of collecting a core outcomes set from children with speech sound disorders in Wales.

misltoessd.bsky.social @misltoessd.bsky.social · 10d

We are delighted to share that we have been awarded prestigious funding from Health and Care Research Wales to conduct Phase 2 of the MISLToe_SSD study in Wales! 🤩

healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/h...

@cshcr.bsky.social

Health and Care Research Wales announces latest round of funding awards

Health and Care Research Wales has announced the recipients of its latest funding awards today (1 October 2025). Funding has been awarded both for projects addressing public and patient need, as well...

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Professor Yvonne Wren @yvonnewren.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are recruiting!! Join #MISLToe_SSD and be part of the new study in Wales. This is an exciting project which is now in phase 2 with phase 3 in the planning stages. If you know about speech sound disorder and know about research, please apply.
jobs.cardiffmet.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Cardiff Metropolitan University: Research Fellow (Speech and Language Therapy)

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to support the delivery of an exciting new Health and Care Research Wales funded research project in the field of children’s speech development and disord...

jobs.cardiffmet.ac.uk

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Joanne Cleland @drjoannecleland.bsky.social · May 12

Pic of diagnostic protocol showing the diagnostic evaluation of articulation and phonology (DEAP) and subtypes of speech sound disorder

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jititterington.bsky.social @jititterington.bsky.social · May 14

Are you leading research into active ingredients of interventions (approaches, targets, intensity) for children with speech and language needs? @cristinamckean and @paulinefrizelle are editing a special collection for @ijlcd. Please contact [email protected] if interested by 16th June.

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Michelle St Clair @michellestclair.bsky.social · May 13

New post for an SLT/SLP Research Associate/Assistant to work on an @edldproject.bsky.social project to validate a screening tool to identify #DevLangDis in adults! Please RT widely! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

ED12650 Research Assistant/Associate - Jobs at Bath

Research Associate

www.bath.ac.uk

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Bristol Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit @bristol-sltru.bsky.social · May 20

@BSLTRU recently undertook a survey for the @RCSLT to evaluate their Professional Development Framework. We want to add some colour to the quantitative findings! Could you spare 30 mins or so to tell Sam how you have used it? Drop an email - [email protected]

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · May 27

🆓🔓 @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @samburrslt.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social & @yvonnewren.bsky.social 2025. Towards an Agreed Labelling System & Protocol for the Diagnosis of #ChildSpeechDis Subtypes in the UK IJLCD 60(3). doi.org/10.1111/1460... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps

Towards an Agreed Labelling System and Protocol for the Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorder Subtypes in the United Kingdom

Background There is no single classification system or diagnostic protocol for speech sound disorder (SSD). This makes it difficult to collect large-scale outcome data and determine which interventi...

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strath-psh.bsky.social @strath-psh.bsky.social · May 29

A new article by @maria-cairney.bsky.social, @drjoannecleland.bsky.social and colleagues reporting promising results in a trial on using #ultrasound biofeedback #speechtherapy for children with #cleft palate ± lip.

#SLT #openaccess

tinyurl.com/3jnamh7e

Quantitative results of SonoSpeech Cleft Pilot: a mixed-methods pilot randomised control trial of ultrasound visual biofeedback versus standard intervention for children with cleft palate ± cleft lip ...

Background Despite its growing popularity, there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of ultrasound visual biofeedback speech therapy for children with cleft palate ± cleft lip (CP ± L). This stud...

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · May 31

🆓🔓 doi.org/10.1111/1460...
Speechwoman's pick for May, 2025. www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?op... Nicely done @drjoannecleland.bsky.social 💐
@samburrslt.bsky.social 💐
@samharding.bsky.social 💐
@drhelenslt.bsky.social 💐
@yvonnewren.bsky.social 💐
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #ChildSpeechDis #slpeeps

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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · May 19

Still time to apply!

CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 28

Are you a research-active Speech and Language Therapist #SLT with a PhD, and interested in #SpeechSoundDisorders #SSD? The UK and Ireland Child Speech Disorder Research Network (@csdrnetwork.bsky.social) is looking for a new member. Apply by 30 May 2025. #SLPeeps #wespeechies #bskySPEECHIES

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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 28

Are you a research-active Speech and Language Therapist #SLT with a PhD, and interested in #SpeechSoundDisorders #SSD? The UK and Ireland Child Speech Disorder Research Network (@csdrnetwork.bsky.social) is looking for a new member. Apply by 30 May 2025. #SLPeeps #wespeechies #bskySPEECHIES

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Joanne Cleland @drjoannecleland.bsky.social · May 12

Our @misltoessd.bsky.social paper describing our consensus-based diagnostic protocol for subtyping #ChildSpeechDis is out now doi.org/10.1111/1460... .

Towards an Agreed Labelling System and Protocol for the Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorder Subtypes in the United Kingdom

Background There is no single classification system or diagnostic protocol for speech sound disorder (SSD). This makes it difficult to collect large-scale outcome data and determine which interventi.....

doi.org

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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 28

Are you a research-active Speech and Language Therapist #SLT with a PhD, and interested in #SpeechSoundDisorders #SSD? The UK and Ireland Child Speech Disorder Research Network (@csdrnetwork.bsky.social) is looking for a new member. Apply by 30 May 2025. #SLPeeps #wespeechies #bskySPEECHIES

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jititterington.bsky.social @jititterington.bsky.social · Apr 17

Very excited to be joining a great line up of speakers at the North East Speech CEN's celebration event to mark 20 years as a thriving group on the 3rd November! Do join us! @csdrnetwork.bsky.social @coursebeetle.bsky.social Find out more about it here: coursebeetle.co.uk/courses/spee...

Speech CEN North East Symposium at 20 | Course Beetle

Join Speech CEN North East (SCENNE) for a special day of celebration. Take the opportunity to learn, network, feast and reflect on SSD.

coursebeetle.co.uk

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Mar 10

ICYMI, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #devlangdis #childspeechdis #SLCN Parents aren’t too lazy to talk to their children, explains a #teacher: “They care so much about their children, but their priority is meeting their basic needs. They are working incredibly hard just to keep them clothed and fed and safe.”

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · Mar 2

Two-thirds of children at risk of exclusion have speech and communication needs. My @london-vru.bsky.social is addressing this with oracy interventions in primary school.

In just one year, it has led to 98% of children narrowing the gap to their peers and 60% meeting vocabulary standards.

Inside the London reception class where kids are taught to talk to help them stay out of gangs

A new initiative aims to improve communication, as as pupils lacking speech and language skills more likely to be excluded and caught up in violence

www.theguardian.com

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jititterington.bsky.social @jititterington.bsky.social · Feb 25

Congratulations Dr@naomiLeafe for her PhD viva on parent-implemented, intensive, digitally-supported Rx for children with #SSD with @sueroulstone and @brendaoneill 💫 Well-deserved! @emmapagnamenta.bsky.social @laurencetaggart.bsky.social @mpdonnelly @csdrnetwork.bsky.social 😃

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Elise Lightbody @eliselightbody.bsky.social · Jan 29

Please help out if you can 🙏🏻

Lindsay Clarke @lindsaycslt.bsky.social · Jan 28

SLTs/SLPs working with children with Language Disorder - I'd love your input to my survey on vocabulary and word learning intervention for children aged 8-12. For participant info and survey: forms.gle/7o3A4RcesFf4...
Please share!
#DevLangDis #DLD #SLCN

Speech and Language Therapists’ vocabulary and word learning intervention practices for children with Language Disorders

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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · Jan 7

Get your #ICPLA2025 abstracts in by *Friday*. Hoping for lots of papers about children's speech sound disorders #DevSpeechDis

ICPLA 2025 @icpla2025.bsky.social · Jan 7

Happy New Year! 🌟 The extended deadline for abstract submissions for #ICPLA2025 is this Friday, 10 January 2025. Don’t miss the chance to share your research at our conference in Patras!

Submit your abstract here 👉 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76778...

We look forward to your contributions!

Oxford Abstracts

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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy New Year. Our resolution is to help build the community of child speech researchers and practitioners on Bluesky in 2025.

a heart shaped firework display with the words happy new year below it

ALT: a heart shaped firework display with the words happy new year below it

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Dec 27

🆓🔓"The importance of accurate vowel transcription is highlighted in the @csdrnetwork.bsky.social Good Practice Guidelines alluding to a tendency to focus on the transcription of Cs & neglect Vs whose transcription is considered more difficult" doi.org/10.1080/0269...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #ChildSpeechDis

Learning to produce and transcribe cardinal vowels: speech and language therapy students’ perception of task difficulty

Learning vowel transcription skills is crucial to function as a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). However, vowel transcription is commonly regarded as particularly difficult and therefore often ...

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jititterington.bsky.social @jititterington.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thank you @carolinebowen.bsky.social - lovely acknowledgement for the first paper out of @katherinepritchards PhD work 😁@emmapagnamenta.bsky.social @vesnastojanovik

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · Dec 19

This study compared the occurrence of different types of generalization (within-class, across-class, and total generalization) following motor-phonetic speech therapy and linguistic-phonological speech therapy in children with a cleft palate ± cleft lip

#SLPeeps @sigperspectives.bsky.social

Does Generalization Occur Following Speech Therapy? A Study in Children With a Cleft Palate

Purpose: This study compared the occurrence of different types of generalization (within-class, across-class, and total generalization) following...

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CSDR Network @csdrnetwork.bsky.social · Dec 19

I guess it shows two things- how much more work we need to do to highlight the benefits of EBP interventions to parents and how parents will get desperate if they are not able to access #SLT services.

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · Dec 12

Another paper from the excellent crew at @mcri lead by @angela.morgan #apraxia #dysarthria #ssd www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Parental attitudes and experiences in pursuing genetic testing for their child’s motor speech disorder - European Journal of Human Genetics

European Journal of Human Genetics - Parental attitudes and experiences in pursuing genetic testing for their child’s motor speech disorder

www.nature.com

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ICPLA 2025 @icpla2025.bsky.social · Dec 11

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline for ICLPA 2025 has been extended to Friday, 10 January 2025.

Submissions can be made via:
app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76778...

We’re looking forward to welcoming you in Patras!

Oxford Abstracts

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