Here it is! ‘Play It Safe’ for Sydney Opera House’s 50th birthday! Watch it LOUD, using headphones preferably, and on the biggest screen you’ve got! #SydneyOperaHouse Sydney Opera House Full Credits under the vid on YouTube: youtu.be/l8ouigVtUvo

Lauren Chaitow & I presented to the 2023 Australia Award Fellows from Malaysia about enhancing collaborations to build sustained benefits for all. We highlighted #devlangdis as a highly prevalent condition that occurs in every language & the 🌎 efforts by RADLDcampaign & ambassadors! #DLD

#2in30 children have Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), yet most people don't know about it. This #DLDday, watch and share Darcie's story, help us raise awareness and support children living with DLD👇speechandlanguage.org.uk/dld

The second paper in Issue 5 of International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology is by Lauren Chaitow Dr Tricia McCabe (she/her) @[email protected] Prof Natalie Munro & Alison Purcell. #slpeeps #ecec #OA #collaboration #earlychildhood #mySLTday #language #literacy Check it out 👇👇tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…

Okay I've finally said it. lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as-charg…

Lyn expertly breaks down some of the issues associated with the speech to print phonics movement in helping children learn to read. Well worth reading.

I’d like to give Hugh Catts a standing ovation for saying in his #ASHA23 session saying we NEED to be checking kids for DLD and piggyback off the back of the dyslexia/reading movement

Such a great day writing, eating and talking!

“It took me a while to truly hear this and turn the corner in my own thinking”. ⁦Mark Anderson⁩ goes to the heart of what being a scientist-practitioner means in this piece on phonemic awareness: self-reflection + consideration of “unwelcome” ideas. nomanis.com.au/blog/single-po…

Delighted to be joining Southern Cross University as Professor of Speech Pathology with my wonderful colleague Associate Professor Assoc Prof Andy Smidt. This week & next is about recognizing, celebrating the contributions we made at @usyd_health. Excited to start new adventures mid Feb! 😎

Time to develop a network for those interested in #VR & #Health in this timely article led by Sophie Brassel: "Users that posted tweets related to “VR in health care (2124/26,001, 8.17%) did not form an interconnected VR network". ABI Communication Lab Sydney Health prod2.jmir.org/2024/1/e45168

Our new open access paper is in Disability and Rehabilitation: 'Social media use by young people with language disorders: a scoping review' bit.ly/3IwadzV Huge thanks to Prof Natalie Munro Melanie Keep Julia Starling @lynguiste #SLP #SLPeeps #wespeechies #SLT Sydney Health

Super proud of PhD candidate and #slpeep Nichola Shelton & her new paper on social media use by young people with language disorders: a scoping review. Congrats! 🎈🎉 Article link and infographic ⬇️ ⬇️ #OpenAccess Julia Starling Melanie Keep Lyn Tieu

A very helpful talk about #DevLangDis and the #NDIS in a time of uncertainty, regulatory/system changes, & high client (& provider!) stress, including re access & early support pathways for participants w/ #dld. Thanks to Shaun Ziegenfusz (he/him) Erin West, and the DLD Project Team. 🙏

#slpeeps #parents - We are recruiting early school-aged children with #devlangdis to participate in a grammar intervention. Telepractice sessions offered. Please see info below ⬇️ ⁦Anita Wong⁩

“A new language and literacy screening tool is part of a plan to improve Australian students' literacy” Fantastic news for Tassie, roll it out!! 👍 👍 ⁦⁦⁦Rosie Martin⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-08-1…

New from me and a great team of former and current speech path and journalism students from University of Canberra exploring SLPs' knowledge and actions around early autism. tinyurl.com/5xs4cxkb Highlights include: a need to support younger and early career speech paths to have 1/2

Really enjoying the newest (6th) edition of “Language Disorders from Infancy through Adolescence” by Paul, Prof Courtenay Norbury, and Gosse! Has anyone had success accessing the associated videos?

🆓🆕🔓 Dr Rebecca Sutherland, R. Turnbull, A. Toms, A. Perry, C. & Watts, A. (2024). 🇦🇺Australian SLPs’ knowledge and actions regarding the early signs of #autism: When does caution become gatekeeping? International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1–13. doi.org/10.1080/175495…

As a proud member of the 2025 Conference Program Advisory Committee (CPAC), I'm thrilled to share that call for submissions is now open! Don't miss your opportunity to present at the SPA 2025 Conference! Speech Pathology Australia