👶Supporting early language development 👶 We are delighted to launch our website & resources to support ELIM-I use in practice developed in partnership with  @iHealthVisiting & @bbcthp. Please take a look at the 'super communicator' resources & guidance research.ncl.ac.uk/elim-i/elim-i/…

— Professor Cristina McKean (@cristina_mckean)
1:00 PM • Apr 15, 2024

Fancy including a quick & reliable English vocabulary test in your web-based experiment? This 4-minute English WORDS test may be useful.
WORDS: Web-based Open-access Reliable Decision on Synonyms
Below see our two-stage approach to develop this test. (1/5)

— Bobby Po-Heng Chen (@BobbyPoHengChen)
3:09 PM • Mar 18, 2024

I see a bit of conversation about DI (Sig Engelmann; Direct Instruction) and di (Barak Rosenshine) which I prefer to call explicit instruction, the term he himself originally used. Here's a nice graphic on what DI is:

— Paul A. Kirschner (@P_A_Kirschner)
1:39 PM • Apr 24, 2024

With the recent push for explicit instruction one of the rhetorics has been, "I'm already doing it" or "That's how I used to teach". In theory, that should be true bc this piece of gold from B. Rosenshine & R. Stevens came out in 1986. The year I was born!
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— Brendan Lee (@learnwithmrlee)
3:16 AM • Apr 23, 2024

What Direct Instruction is and what it isn't.

— Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick)
6:09 AM • Apr 23, 2024

How to analyze a Balance Sheet in less than 2 minutes:

— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi)
12:08 PM • Apr 21, 2024

The best way to regulate anger is not to vent right away. It’s to calm down first.

154 studies: Deep breathing, meditation & yoga are better antidotes to aggression than yelling, punching & running.

Anger management is about lowering your heart rate, not raising it. Relaxing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

— Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant)
6:22 PM • Apr 23, 2024

🔔New Paper!🥂
A Systematic Review of Factors that Impact Reading Comprehension in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S08…
Thank you UC library for making it open access!🎉
With @MollyLeachman@prattas
#DLDmatters

— Joseph Lam (@josephhylam)
8:22 PM • Apr 24, 2024

Sequencing Deficits and Phonological Speech Errors, But Not Articulation Errors, Predict Later Literacy Skills |  …highlights the need to provide emergent literacy alongside phonology intervention for preschoolers with phonologically-based SSD

— Elise Baker (@DrEliseBaker)
1:46 PM • Apr 20, 2024

🚨my first pub alert!!!🚨check out these strategies for how to support students with dyslexia in solving word problems! It is open-access!

— Alison Hardy (@MsHardy123)
9:53 PM • Apr 24, 2024

For children to flourish, they need to grow up reading and being read to.

The following is a list of some ESSENTIAL books for any beloved children in your life. And they’re brilliant enough that they can be enjoyed equally well by adults.

— Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze)
6:09 PM • Apr 10, 2024

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Awareness international awareness day is coming soon, 14th May.
Landmarks accross the world will light up blue 💙
If anyone wants to get involved you can by asking your local landmark to light up blue 💙🙏
#CAS#SSD#Apraxia#SLT

— Georgia Wilson (@leckiegeorgia)
5:15 AM • Apr 26, 2024

I got 25/36 on this facial expression reading test. I was curious how Jessica would do, so I sent it to her. She got 36/36. She really is the social radar. (via @markessien)

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— Paul Graham (@paulg)
8:52 PM • Apr 23, 2024

There’s a trend in Colombian slang of describing boredom as an animal in an unstimulating / undersized environment. Examples include “more bored than a donkey in a canoe,” “more bored than a horse on a balcony,” and, my favourite one… “more bored than a monkey in a bonsai tree”

— Adam Sharp (@AdamCSharp)
11:57 AM • Apr 22, 2024