Children's Speech Sound Disorders #ChildSpeechDis #DevLangDis Science, #Pseudoscience & #Misinformation in Health, Education, & Medical practice.
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In @ashajournals.bsky.social @sigperspectives.bsky.social Rethinking Developmental Language Disorder: A Case for Recognizing #DevLangDis as a Language-Based Learning Disability. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... ๐ฆ #bskySPEECHIES
๐ซ #school-based-issues (SIG16)
๐ฆ #bskyspeechies - ASHA's ๐ Communication Health Support Association #CHSA serves as a leading ๐บ๐ธ national provider of public information, education, and resources about communication disorders and the related work of audiologists and speech-language pathologists. helpingyoucommunicate.org
๐๐ Spencer,S, Bola,K, Reeves,L, Best,W, Stringer,H, & Pennington,L. (2026). Defining Communicative Participation for CYP. IJLCD. 61(3),e70266. doi.org/10.1111/1460... #ICF
๐ฆ #bskySPEECHIES "Communicative participation is a prized outcome for children and young people with #SLCN and their parents".
@genxmac.bsky.social in @aunz.theconversation.com econversation.com notes OECD finding that 44% of๐ฆ๐บAU adults have literacy skills โฌ๏ธ the โnecessary proficiency level for navigating modern work & lifeโ. theconversation.com/more-than-1-... #LITERACY is a human right humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub... ๐
NEWZEALANDESE OR AOTEAROAN
'Despite the protests of NZ ๐ณ๐ฟ educational authorities and elocution teachers of the time (the turn of the 20th century), what followed wasnโt the adoption of a single โcorrectโ way of speaking the โQueenโs Englishโ'. theconversation.com/was-auckland...
๐ค How VERY interesting, in @ashajournals.bsky.social AJSLP, ๐ฆ #bskySPEECHIES. Thoughtful author discusses the implications of using the term "difference" when describing language that is, well, DIFFERENT from GAE, thereby adopting an ๐OTHERING๐ tone. ๐ #openaccess pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....