Our slides for #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition updated with some info about our meta-narrative review (in preparation - analysis phase). Lucy Bryant and I presented this on 2nd October 2025 to 1206 Speech & Language Therapists, the vast majority of whom reported not having read our (free) online systematic review report in full - emphasising the importance of research translation via online webinar format.

We talked to parents of children with childhood #apraxia of speech in two countries about early intervention. … Here's what the parents said #OpenAccess: https://lnkd.in/g2ATmWmA

Back in the news: On 12 September 2025, Health Ministers released a communique, rekindling conversations about speech pathology regulation in Australia. Here’s what I think about it.

Well first we have Rick Morton’s take on the…needs assessment and selection of the I-CAN tool. …But secondly the article also references the final therapy supports operational guideline and I quote “The announcement of the new assessment tool comes as the National Disability Insurance Agency is expected to release its new therapy support guideline. The guideline, seen by The Saturday Paper, will now prevent participants from using NDIS funds to gather reports from treating therapists – an expensive exercise – by making these funds “stated” amounts in their plans. Under the NDIS legislative reform, stated supports can only be spent as directed by the agency.”