PODCAST: Complex social challenges, like homelessness and teenage pregnancy, require ‘joined-up’ solutions. Moira Wallace joins @jenniferthf.bsky.social​ to reflect on lessons from the social exclusion unit. Listen now 🎧

20 years of policy for disadvantage: lessons for the future – with Moira Wallace

With near-record numbers of young people not in education, work or training – and public investment constrained – what solutions are available to tackle complex social problems?

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Wonderful to have been in Tromso, Norway this week with Alina Haines-Delmont for the Neurohabilitation conference. A beautiful place and stimulating discussions #Intellectualdisabilities #criminaljustice #Slpeeps

Wow! Excited to open our first delivery of Bowen and Snow's "Evidence-based support for children and young people with additional needs" Still available on pre-publication offer on our website #bskyspeechies #children #SLT www.jr-press.co.uk/product/evid...

Come join our SLT team at Oxford Hospitals! Full time permanent Band 6 role in our acute stroke team #SLPeeps #SLT #SLTjobs

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

ADHD & autism are five-to-ten times more prevalent in prisons vs the general population. Refusing to recognise, support & truly value neurodivergent people isn't just inhumane - it's fiscally ruinous. Kids struggle to focus, feel overwhelmed, we call them bad then lock them up. & it costs loads!

Enjoying the posters at #RCSLTCONF2025 - Some of them talk to you!! Enjoyed reading about the development of a rating checklist for easy read material developed by Hollyanna Wilson in conjunction with people with a learning disability. Look out for the free RATER checklist, coming soon 👀🔎 #slpeeps

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

Developmental Language Disorder as a Multidimensional Neurodevelopmental Spectrum: Implications for Diagnosis

Purpose: We aimed to create a comprehensive understanding of the dilemmas involved in the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) and ...

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It's ask the committee time!! Today's question is: What made you want to be an SLT in Criminal Justice and Secure Settings? Add your answers below and join the discussion. #SLPeeps #SLT #MySLTDay #CriminalJustice #SecureSettings #BskySpeechies

Excited to be joining the #RCSLTConf25 to see not 1 but 2 criminal justice related sessions 🙌🏻 I'll shortly be joining the Adult Prison session before chairing the Youth Justice session. Exciting times!! 🤩 #mySLTday

To support DLD Day 2025, we’ve updated our free DLD guide for families - 135 articles addressing FAQs #devlangdis #DLDday www.banterspeech.com.au/dld-a-free-g...

DLD: A FREE Guide for Families – 4th edition out today! [download] | Banter Speech & Language

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is common. But - compared with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism, ADHD, and learning disorders - DLD is still not well known. Back in 2020, we created a DL...

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Today is #DLDDay Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder is rising but not well understood. Did you know that it carries on into adulthood? That it doesn't have to be in conjunction with any other condition? Affects 7% of the population? Find out more here: radld.org/about/dld/ #devlangdis

This Thursday (Oct 2nd) @hannahhobson.bsky.social is presenting @radld.bsky.social's @deevybee.bsky.social lecture on camouflaging in #DevLangDis. Don't miss it. Recording tickets also available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-d... #DLDday

Please check out the Top 10 Research Priority Questions for #DevLangDis. Newly launched after extensive consultations involving people with DLD, families and professionals. www.rcslt.org/news/top-que...

Top questions for DLD research priorities revealed | RCSLT

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Day 2 at #VACJS25 starting with a tech 'mare for my presentation!! Lora Briski from Slovenia presented on the increase on non native speakers attending court and how they are supported - need for specialist interpreters and careful assessment of language skills

Happy to be in Cardiff for the Vulnerable Accused conference for the next 2 days. Lots of interesting talks lined up #VACJS25

Onn October 2nd Dr Hannah Hobson from the University of York will be presenting this year's Dorothy Bishop lecture with the title 'How we see (and don’t see) DLD: camouflaging and others’ perceptions of communication needs.' #DevLangDis #DLDday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-d...

Happy Thursday E-DLD followers! Here is today's summarised study. Summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/does-a-... Original article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #devlangdis #languagedisorders #engagedld

We will soon be publishing a new version of the fact sheet on developmental language disorder (DLD)! It is now being translated into 24 different languages. Now we have it in Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian, Estonian, German, French, Indonesian, Latvian, Norwegian and Danish! Who's next? #devlangdis

How do we navigate questions of mental illness, ‘insanity’ and culpability in our justice system? Bradley Hillier and Rhona Friedman discuss on the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast. 🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/319ef0 #CriminalJustice #MentalHealth #TransformJusticePodcast

Hello Everyone, Two free webinars for ElevenLabs voice banking/cloning both Wed 17th Sep (UK/US) 1: UK 11am / EST 6am / AEST 8pm 2: UK 4.30pm / EST 11:30am / AEST 01:30am Ask questions, share best practices, hear on updates app.livestorm.co/elevenlabs/v... Use the drop-down pick list to select

Voice Cloning Webinar 2a for Impact Users, Clinicians, and Nonprofit Partners | ElevenLabs

Join certified speech-language pathologists and ElevenLabs Impact team members Richard Cave and Gabi Leibowitz for our next Impact Program Webinar.Voice cloning is a powerful tool, and we know our ...

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🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES lack of diverse voices steering the profession, both locally & globally, raises concerns of inadvertently marginalising groups & perpetuating the same views & practices, thereby limiting the impact of SLP services & risking widening inequities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amplifying the voices of underrepresented speech-language pathologists: A scoping review using the transformative research paradigm

To investigate the characteristics of studies that included underrepresented speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as research participants.A scoping review was conducted using the principles of the ...

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If you live in/near Chicago please go support the wonderful Eve 🙏🏻 #slpeeps #wespeechies

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Documentary film by Eve Keepings de Jesus from Mountain Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Selective Mutism - Getting The Word Out Tuesday October 7, 2025 Davis Theater 4614 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, Illinois #SelectiveMutism #selectivemutismawareness

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a difficulty with understanding & using words & sentences. That might seem like a small issue to you, but to people with DLD this can be a huge barrier. The biggest barrier of all is NEXT TO NO ONE HAS HEARD OF DLD. Help us change that! #DLDday #DevLangDis

Do you want to present at our next event? Message us or email us offendersig@gmail.com It's a great CPD opportunity!

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

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Huge congratulations to the newly annointed Dr @inclusionista.bsky.social 🥳 - such an important and insightful piece of work - Marginalised communities in children’s speech and language therapy: the experiences of primary carers living with social and economic disadvantage

Great day with lots of like-minded individuals thinking about how language can change to support children in contact with the youth justice system www.cost.eu/actions/CA22...

Calling autism community members and justice professionals (with experience in Magistrates/Crown Court) to help co-design new, accessible resources for autistic people involved in criminal court systems in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Autism community: lnkd.in/ekxQ_wV5 Justice professionals: lnkd.in/ee8SXbmd #AutRes

Happy to be at the @n8prp.bsky.social conference today focusing on Neurodiversity in the Criminal justice system