Expert on how children’s social pragmatic communication grows & developer of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) to assess this in 2- & 3-year-olds #DevLangDis | Outreach on #PlayfulLearning #language & #literacy in urban spaces @UofWaterloo 🇨🇦 #bskySPEECHIES
Daniela O’Neill
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#Kitchener 🇨🇦 teen’s first feature-length documentary “Chronically” captures the medical & lived experiences of 5 teen girls with #chronicillness & rarer diagnoses. It’s been selected for the Toronto Lift-Off Festival & available to view (Features Programme $15) until July 7!
#POTS #EDS #CRPS #SMAS
Delighted to our article about creating a playground #AAC board in Ground Magazine. A #landscapearchitecture magazine certainly wasn't on our radar when this project began! It’s openaccess & exciting to share this work far & wide with new audiences! issuu.com/oalagroundma...
#play #inclusion #SLP
Free to view documentary The Reading Reboot highlights #structuredliteracy and the work of the UFLI team!
This US documentary is relevant to Canada as more provinces move to structured literacy (in ON in part due to the recommendations of the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s #RighttoRead Report)
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
Yes, it's true.
About half of Americans don't read very well. About a fifth really struggle. Most people don't have a college degree.
Science magazine articles don't reach "the general public."
(Not everything has to, that's fine. But we shouldn't be naive about the reach of magazine articles)
The strongest influence on children’s brains may not be what many expect, study suggests - A child’s family income and the neighbourhood they grow up in may have a stronger influence on brain development than factors such as IQ, parenting style or health history, according to new research.
Exciting to see our AAC board make front page news at the University of Waterloo!
uwaterloo.ca/news/arts/ev...
#BskySpeechies #citiesforchildren #inclusion #accessibility #developmentalpsychology
#AAC #SLP #play #languagedevelopment #pragmatics #playground #landscapearchitecture
🧠‼️ Socioeconomic variables show the strongest associations with the brain out of 649 measures—surpassing cognition and mental health. Grateful for the chance to write a perspective with @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social about @smarek0502.bsky.social and team's important findings! tinyurl.com/bdhk6bc8
Lovely to get this ResearchGate notification!
This was my 1st paper introducing my Language Use Inventory in 2007!
I could never have anticipated where the LUI is today - normed & used all over the 🌎 with many translations!
More info & access to this paper & others uwaterloo.ca/childrens-co...
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
A child’s family income and the neighbourhood they grow up in may have a stronger influence on brain development than factors such as IQ, parenting style or health history, according to new research.
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Daniela O’Neill
Trish Greenhalgh
This article, which I co-authored with @angelinehumber.bsky.social, is available on pp. 3-6 of CPF Magazine. The link can be found on Canadian Parents for French’s website: cpf.ca/cpf-magazine/
Elise Cutts
CTV News Kitchener
Daniela O’Neill
Daniela O’Neill
Socioeconomic factors top the list of influences on children’s brain structure and function
Best-selling author James Patterson explores the current literacy crisis in America, highlighting evidence-based solutions from the Science of Reading.
What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Season #17 Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival 1st June - 8th July 2026 Get TKTs Festival Programmes Local Filmmaker Shorts Showcasing films from local
On your next trip to Waterloo Park, you’ll notice something unique in its newest Eby Farm playground: a large board with symbols and words arranged in a grid. Known as an Augmentative and Alternative ...
To remain relevant and combat false information, scientists and publishers must engage audiences where they increasingly consume information: social-first, video-driven platforms.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
Researchers and science publishers need to seize the opportunity offered by the drastic shifts in the way news is produced — one reason Nature has joined TikTok.
