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#devlangdis Speech & Language Therapist, Researcher, Professor, @SLSncl Pronouns: she/her
Jun 4, 2021 5 tweets 6 min read
@larchiba6 @WordAware @EmilyWBT @NAPLIC Thanks Lisa - yes that’s it - and @WordAware - I am writing a paper now about the findings from codesigning an intervention for HVs to provide at 2 1/2 years - the way practitioners talk about these things can make or break the relationship @larchiba6 @WordAware @EmilyWBT @NAPLIC We tried ways of talking about this - parents liked it when we said -some children find it harder to learn language than others -for these children we need to be ‘super communicators’. We need to ‘dial up’ the kind of communication we know helps children learn language
May 17, 2019 11 tweets 2 min read
Listening to my @SLSncl colleague professor David Howard speak about semantic therapy in children and adults with WFD #IASLTcon19 Who benefits from which treatment? Semantic versus phonological or do people benefit from both and really the tasks are our therapies just word learning tasks? #iasltcon19