A nationwide search is underway for the next dean of the Arnold School, and Tom Chandler is prepared to hand over the reins after 17 years as its leader. His office is packed, and, here, he unpacks his reflections on his tenure as dean. ow.ly/W15Z50Rl6Ym #ArnoldSchoolProud

Are you conducting intervention research that *explicitly* targets psychosocial factors within a reading/writing intervention? K-12. Psychosocial broadly defined as constructs under the umbrella of "motivation science." I'm looking for potential contributors to a special issue!

“If they had discovered it, they wouldn’t need explicit instruction.” As a SpecEd teacher, I can attest that what I do in Tier3 ALSO works (and is necessary) in Tier2 and Tier1. Why is this still not common knowledge?!? IDA Ontario

If you are looking to create data dictionaries for your project and not sure where to start, you can find a template here: osf.io/ynqcu

🏆 Call for submissions for 2024 CLD International EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARD! This award is for an outstanding manuscript on #LD from PhD dissertation completed within last 5 yrs. Click image for details. Deadline is June 30. Updated call will be posted here: council-for-learning-disabilities.org/cld-outstandin…

Love to see the addition of LANGUAGE to ASHA’s annual awareness month! 🎉

Time to celebrate!!! Taylor Bryant Berrier is officially ABD!

🆓🆕 🔓 from @ASHAjournals "It seems that testing is not simply an assessment of our learning; it is, itself, a form of learning." See how this relates to word-learning by 14 4- and 5-year-olds with #DevLangDis and 14 matched TD peers. pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.10… RADLDcampaign

Thoughts of an #AcademicMama: how many authors' babies were gestated or born from study initiation to first publication?

And NELI effects still seem years after intervention on oral language, word reading and reading comprehension. Gillian West at HVDL Foundation. NELI - Nuffield Early Language Intervention

I was in a masters + credentials program at University of Cali Irvine in 03. This was an apparently niche time where NCLB led to a push for phonics, Scarborough’s Rope was new & emphasized, Open Court was the prime choice for boxed curr. etc I feel my T prep was solid, in theory

A sunny morning to share the findings of our Nuffield Foundation project on children's book language Work led by Nicky Dawson with Yaling Hsiao & talented team Oxford ExpPsychology St John's College Oxford University Press 📚📚📚 Links👇to public report & publications readoxford.web.ox.ac.uk/our-research/b…

I just learned that my article on #dyslexia and #dld has more than 6,000 downloads since January! If you have not read it yet, check it out ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tr… College of Education thanks for making it open access MSU MSU Research

This afternoon, Taylor Bryant Berrier at #SSSR2024 talking about frequency of negative emotions in spoken word learning instruction for those with reading difficulty. 👏

Literacy advocates: Ask school PTAs to survey parents to find how many have kids in private tutoring for reading. That kind of concrete questioning can spark change. Why are people paying? What are they paying for? Who can't afford to pay? Take results to the board and the Sup.

15 mo check up- Me- So tell me what her first word was. (always a good ice-breaker) Mom- I'm too embarrassed to tell you. Me- Why would you be embarrassed? Mom- Her first word was "Alexa..."

Glad to share this new paper led by Lauren Baron and Dr. Anna Ehrhorn (she/her/hers) in collaboration w Bethany Bell Pete Shlanta & Jane Ashby. Children w reading difficulties #dyslexia ( + good readers) are influenced by orthography when completing phonological processing tasks. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great blog post from Right to Read Project about the challenges of implementing "effective" educational interventions vs conducting meaningful educational research. righttoreadproject.com/2024/08/07/dou…

Really interesting study on timelines of referrals for language evaluation (in Netherlands from 2010-2014) . From the abstract "late-identified LDs exist, even at high school age. Girls and multilingual children tend to be missed at younger ages." pubs.asha.org/doi/epdf/10.10…