Congrats to PhD student Robannie Sumner her first paper (from her Hons research - and open-access) 🎉🎉🎉 "Dyslexia, school-connectedness, depression, and anxiety during the transition from primary to secondary school" @lizzjhill.bsky.social @lalyp.bsky.social (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...)

Dyslexia, School‐Connectedness, Depression, and Anxiety During the Transition From Primary to Secondary School

Children with dyslexia are at elevated risk of depression and anxiety. The transition from primary to secondary school may be particularly challenging given increased educational demands. Past resear...

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#JAACAP Translations highlights the current inequity in mental health research and services for young people with developmental language disorders and sets out priorities for future research and practice. #DLD https://twp.ai/4itF4N

Families, professionals, and researchers interested in all things language/literacy. We are pleased to announce the @lalyp.bsky.social Symposium 2026: Learning from Evidence & Experience. Find out more, and submit ideas or abstracts at lalyp.com.au/symposium. Bookings opening soon. #DevLangDis #DLD

Free downloads of the original Oral Inferential Comprehension Ix Prog by Dr Emily Dawes in English, PLUS a new translation (Cantonese) thanks to Assoc Prof Amy Wong and her team (as well as Swedish and French) @lalyp.bsky.social #DevLangDis languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/resources/fr...

Oral Inferential Comprehension Intervention — #LaLYP

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Hello E-DLD followers! Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/impact-... YouTube summary: youtu.be/z5Y_VitXNU0 Full text available at: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1... @lalyp.bsky.social @me-boyo.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social #DevLangDis #DLD #MentalHealth #Wellbeing

See below: we’re recruiting someone to join our thriving research active team! Teaching focus phonetics-PhD qualified in SLT/P and/or in phonetics/linguistics. Please share with interested colleagues and/or dm me if interested :-)

School of Allied Health @ University of Limerick@ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join the School of Allied Health. Position - Associate Professor B in Speech and Language Therapy (Permanent). Further information for applicants and application material is available online from: ul.ie/hrvacancies/ #ULjobs

Really proud of this student led work with @lizzjhill.bsky.social from @lalyp.bsky.social

Lizz Hill@lizzjhill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper (OA🔓) led by @curtinuniversity.bsky.social honours students with @suze-freogirl.bsky.social: How well do acute #mentalhealth ward staff understand the role of #SLP? Answer: it's mainly swallowing...

The Language and Literacy in Young People is an amazing resource. Thanks to @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @me-boyo.bsky.social and team for creating such valuable and practical work. Loads of free evidence based downloads. languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/resources/fr... #DevLangDis

Getting ready for our LALYP planning day - lots planned for 2026, so keep an eye out for events 👀!

Enjoyed providing an overview of our @lalyp.bsky.social research to @clinikids.bsky.social. Thanks for the invite @gailalvares.bsky.social - enjoyed discussing all things language, literacy, and mental health! @suze-freogirl.bsky.social #DevLangDis

2026 @lalyp.bsky.social meetings are starting up again this week! Join us on Wednesday 18th Feb (4-5pm) to hear from the amazing @andreasalins.bsky.social who will be discussing relationships between reading skill, reading engagement, and reading anxiety. See you there!

'Communication is highly important to these very vulnerable young people. Speech and Language Therapy services and other professionals need to provide more timely and targeted support for young people within the care system'

Nichola Shelton@nichola-slp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New open access paper: Being understood: Neurodivergent care leavers’ perspectives on their own communication skills Some really important insights about the importance of connection and advocacy for young people with #DevLangDis #SLPeeps doi.org/10.1177/0265...

Hello E-DLD followers! Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/social-... Original article: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy... #DevLangDis #DLD #SocialDifficulties #EmotionalDifficulties

Another #research project request! If you are the #parent of a 2 year old born in 2023 please consider filling out our #child development survey here: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We are interested in whether early #development has changed post #pandemic.

A piece of research I am very proud of. The data took a long time to collect (thanks Covid). Brilliant work with the team including @emilymayjackson.bsky.social @me-boyo.bsky.social et al. High prevalence of #DevLangDis in #FLPs and links to psychosocial outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Profiling the oral language and psychosocial skills of young people attending Flexible Learning Programmes

While secondary school students attending flexible learning programmes have histories of poor engagement in schooling, little research has examined their oral language skills and psychosocial outco...

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🎉🎉🎉 Happy new year from the LALYP team! Gearing up for a big 2026. Hope everyone has had a great break.

Signing off for the summer break. Happy holidays everyone, and see you in the 2026!

🎉400 Yr 6 children reached in our MRFF-funded study exploring high-school transition 🎉. Know an Aussie child in Yr 6, help us with our the last recruitment push! Express interest at tinyurl.com/2xwjsebc. Parents get a report on their child's language/reading skills, kids get a gift-card. #DevLangDis

Congrats @me-boyo.bsky.social!

Mark Boyes@me-boyo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to have been awarded the @smhr.org.au Prof Helen Hermann Award for Social Mental Health. Huge congrats to all the other awardees. The conference in Adelaide was a huge success, and I'm really looking forward to pulling out the passport for next year's conference!

Delighted to have been awarded the @smhr.org.au Prof Helen Hermann Award for Social Mental Health. Huge congrats to all the other awardees. The conference in Adelaide was a huge success, and I'm really looking forward to pulling out the passport for next year's conference!

Well done @lizzjhill.bsky.social on winning a Raine Priming Grant "Optimising mental health service access and engagement for children with language disorders" And top ranked applicant no less! Congrats to all the other successful applicants. #DevLangDis

Team @lalyp.bsky.social has joined @bsky.app. Give us a follow if you're interested in all things language, literacy, and mental health! #DevLangDis. Find out more about our work at www.lalyp.com.au

Language & Literacy in Young People | Research, Tools & More

At #LaLYP, we're striving to make language & literacy research more accessible to clinicians, consumers, & the community. Access our free tools & info here.

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And more good news! Team #LALYP representing at the Curtin enAble Institute awards. @me-boyo.bsky.social picked up the "Research Mentor & Supervisor" award and @sylvanna-m.bsky.social and @emilymayjackson.bsky.social both received "Consumer & Community Involvement" awards!

Huge congrats to postdocs extraordinaries @sylvanna-m.bsky.social and Adie Wilmot on winning the Curtin School of Population Health "Outstanding Professional Research Staff Award". And to Hannah Pizzey for winning the "Outstanding Research Assistant Award". Go team #LALYP!