The Literacy LIFTER website is live!

It’s a free way for teachers to create handwriting materials that align with their early reading curriculum + eLearning modules/videos/lesson plans from @IAReading

— Shawn Datchuk (@ShawnDatchuk)
5:44 PM • Jul 12, 2024

FREE DOWNLOADS 🧵
I love a good find & these are some great, but lesser known random resources that I've come across in recent times. I thought it would be remiss of me not to share them! So, check these out👇

— Brendan Lee (@learnwithmrlee)
10:33 PM • Jul 15, 2024

Check out this fantastic resource developed by @Christos_lab from @UniRdg_CeLM:
MultiPiC - The Multilingual Picture Database

— Ludovica Serratrice (@ludoserratrice)
6:32 PM • Jul 2, 2024

Looking for a FREE #ScienceOfReading course to increase your knowledge and understanding of the reading research?

Look no further than @ReadingRockets!

These 10, self-paced modules align with the reading research, contain practical, evidence-based classroom strategies, AND… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Mme Lockhart (@MmeLockhartLDSB)
10:42 AM • Jul 18, 2024

"DLD is far more common than autism and about as common as ADHD. It affects children in all countries, children speaking all languages, and children growing up monolingual or multilingual.  DLD is a very common developmental disability."
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— Melanie Brethour (@melbrethour)
12:41 PM • Jul 11, 2024

Time for @NickyJDawson looking at corpus of documents targeted at children. Lists of suffixes that appear more frequently in books aimed at children in different age ranges. The freq of different suffixes changes with age
#SSSR2024

— Dr Susan Ebbels @SusanEbbels (@SusanEbbels)
12:52 PM • Jul 12, 2024

When you go from employee to manager, the important learning has little to do with the technical aspects of the job, and a lot to do with emotional intelligence.

— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz)
4:12 AM • Jul 16, 2024

In this study @YoungSukKim19 and @YaacovP investigate whether information on students' spelling and vocabulary in kindergarten increases the precision of identifying students with reading difficulties, using longitudinal data from kindergarten to Grade 2. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

— The FCRR (@TheFCRR)
7:21 PM • Jul 17, 2024

#LSHSS study finds that a new language assessment app, LanguageScreen, has excellent psychometric properties; is easy, reliable, child-friendly; and may raise teachers' awareness of variations in language skills: at.asha.org/ma@ASHAJournals@SIGPerspectives

— ASHA (@ASHAWeb)
10:30 PM • Jul 9, 2024

🧵Stuttering therapy post - Caught up with Mr 10 who I hadn’t seen for a while (he was navigating school & stuttering positively without me & our sessions are a “safety net” for him) and we discussed different scenarios of whether stuttering had an impact on his interactions. 1/8

— Voon Pang (@voon_pang)
5:25 AM • Jul 11, 2024

Interesting video with voices of people who use AAC describing their priorities for research youtu.be/abT7pnqeEHQ?si…

— Assoc Prof Andy Smidt (@AndySmidt)
1:08 PM • Jul 12, 2024

The Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences mourns the loss of Dr. Michelle Bourgeois, a respected scholar and cherished member of our community. Dr. Bourgeois passed away on July 10, 2024. buff.ly/469Nftf

— ANCDS (@TheANCDS)
2:00 PM • Jul 18, 2024