Professor Cristina McKean

@cristina-mckean.bsky.social @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social @tricmc.bsky.social @renalyons.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social please share if you can! Thank you

@ticld.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social be grateful for shares!

Adaptation and Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Development Inventories for Children Aged 8–30 Months and 30–48 Months in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine Purpose: Assessing early language skills through parental report is a cost-effective way to screen for language delays when resources are scarce....

💰In @ashajournals.bsky.social Abdelwahab Floccia Forbes Alsiddiqi Al-Shdifat @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Odeh Trebacz Khattab 2025 Adaptation & Standardization of Two Arabic Communicative Devel Inventories for Chn 8-30 & 30-48 Months in 🇪🇬EG 🇯🇴JO & 🇵🇸PS. JSLHR doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Apologies once again for not being able to find the right handles to tag people! I’ll keep trying to find everyone!

Huge thanks to the HvDL Foundation for the funding @hilarygardner.bsky.social

To the team @drhelenslt.bsky.social Sean Pert Elaine Ashton Kate Conn Naomi Rose Carolyn Letts Emily Armstrong Jenny Sandham

And a special mention to Christine Jack who kept the study on the rails throughout

A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Pre‐School Language Interventions—Building Early Sentences Therapy and an Adapted Derbyshire Language Scheme Background Children's language abilities set the stage for their education, psychosocial development and life chances across the life course. Aims To compare the efficacy of two preschool language...

Delighted to see our LIVELY RCT published. Completing this during the pandemic was one of the hardest & most worthwhile experiences of my career The commitment of the RA team & educators was humbling.

And we found Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) works!
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Thanks for being there both of you - hope you got some sleep Nikki !

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Happy International women’s day to all the amazing women working in speech and language therapy and education practice and research - you are all legends and make lasting and important impact happen every day

🚨We’re Hiring: Research Assistant🚨

Join our research team working on national & international studies in Speech, Language & Communication Needs and SEND.

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#Hiring #ResearchAssistant #SEND #SpeechLanguage #JobOpportunity

🔔 Join our Lunchtime Webinar Series tomorrow!
💡 Does investing in prevention reduce rates of children in care?
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🎥 Missed our public seminar with Professor Cristina McKean last week?

Catch up now and watch the recording here! ➡️ bit.ly/4i6OVcd

We recently came across this video and it is amazing. Frankie is an adult eith Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and hearing her experiences and views will open many people's eyes. #DevLangDis

What a speaker line up!
You've got until Monday and so don't miss the early bird conference rate.
Join us in person in Birmingham to learn all about Developmental Language Disorder #DevLangDis
naplic.org.uk/conferences

#NAPLIC25 conference is coming up on 29/3, with early bird closing on 10/3. It's close to the end of the financial year and so your manager may have a few pennies they need to use up.
Make a case to you manager today!
#DevLangDis
www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/

Come and join my growing team! An exciting opportunity to help us to evaluate the ELIM-I. Please repost @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social

Come and join my growing team! An exciting opportunity to help us to evaluate the ELIM-I. Please repost @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social @natmunro.bsky.social

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

I'm looking for someone with neuroimaging experience to join my lab for a year - please do repost!

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What is functional communication? How can we assess, measure, and improve it? | Banter Speech & Language The big picture: Functional communication is how someone actually uses language to communicate with others in the real world. It is often very different from how someone performs on a standardised lan...

We need to do more work on what we mean by “functional communication” - & how we measure and improve it: www.banterspeech.com.au/what-is-func...

Oooh fabulous thank you - it’s lovely on here but struggling to find anyone - this is so kind - thank you!

Yes indeed - sharing with Ed students to compare to MAIN and consider strengths and weaknesses - thank you!

You star - thanks so much

Thank you!!

Hello #slpeeps - I am looking for some bus story transcripts in the public domain for my students to try to analyse - does anyone know where I might find them? @helensc.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social

🚀 Come work with myself and Prof Tim Rapley! We are hiring a Research Fellow in Implementation Science! Explore how early language interventions are implemented across England. 📍 Newcastle | 🕒 30-month role | 🔗 Apply now! | 7 Mar deadline
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
#Hiring #Research

We have now closed our survey on textbooks and taxonomies. Thank you to all those who completed and shared the survey, we are delighted with the response.

Stay tuned for further surveys and updates from the TICLD project!

#DevLangDis #ImpSci #BSkySPEECHIES

We have only one response each from Finland, Sweden, and Austria, can you help us reach more countries? We are looking for academics or researchers who teach on #bskySPEECHIES #SLT #SLP degree courses to fill out this survey on #DevLangDis: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please share widely!

Its #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek! Myself and Sarah Griffiths have worked together with clinicians, young people with #devlangdis and families to help mental health practitioners to make sessions more accessible for children with Developmental Language Disorder. Here are signs of DLD in MH settings:

How strong is the relationship between caregiver speech and language development? A meta-analysis (Coffey & Snedeker) - important attempt to try and estimate input-uptake relationships across studies

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FAO all academics who teach child language interventions in both undergraduate and postgraduate SLT/SLP programmes. Please tell us what core book you use in your teaching of child language disorders. This work forms part of the TICLD programme of research. Survey: ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...