Congratulations to all Dyslexia Canada Excellence Award winners, including Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s own Lauren Duggan 👏 👏 and a Lifetime Achievement award to Linda Siegel 👏 👏 . dyslexiacanada.org/2024-educator-…

“In Economics 46%of women vs 10% of men reported experiencing devaluation, the largest gap between women and men in any field except for engineering” 😔👇

I am so sad to hear of the passing of my mentor and friend Dr. Larry Shriberg. His work is the foundation of how we work with children with speech sound disorders #SSD across the world. His legacy will continue ASHA Journals Waisman Center

Now NS Education and Early Childhood Development's turn to end Reading Recovery. Time for all young students in Nova Scotia to have access to effective early reading instruction & intervention. Becky Druhan recognized that learning to read is a human right -ending RR is an important part of getting us there.

You know those early sounds your baby makes? They’re not as random as they might seem. New research released this week analyzed 130 infants’ vocalizations (recorded over the course of their first 12 months) and found that babies’ early squeals, growls, and vowel sound patterns

Rachel Thompson neurosciencenews.com/baby-language-…

Long COVID Is a Chronic Disease - how are Australia’s social and disability services going to respond? healthcentral.com/condition/coro…

John A. List I agree. But the referees are not in charge, the editors are in charge. I think we need stronger editors, who are willing to stand up to referees’ unreasonable or inappropriate demands. Of course it’s harder to do that because you really have to invest a lot in the paper yourself

So, in 2005, after a vow of 100 summers of silence, Northern Cheyenne tribal historians revealed that it was a female warrior, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who killed Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (by clubbing him in the head) at the Battle of Little Bighorn. June 25, 1876.

Snake oil salesmen never went away. Now they're called "wellness coaches," "alternative/integrative/functional medicine practitioners," "energy medicine physicians," etc. My latest in Psychology Today: psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/writin…

I have a very important study to share with you COVID-19 mortality rates were 16-18 times lower in Vaccinated kids Higher mortality from COVID than other vaccinable diseases People saying kids should be infected not vaccinated have blood on their hands sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very important new contribution from Seidenberg Where does the Science of Reading go from here? – Reading Matters seidenbergreading.net/2024/06/24/whe…

Culling wolves alters the survivors and that could be 'bad news' for caribou, study finds cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

This is the Atlas of Cognitive Disorders.

Kamini Gadhok MBE “Don’t use monolingual norms on multilingual children. Clinicians should explore, document all languages of a child, incl frequency, amount, duration and types of conversations experienced with different communication partners.” #IALP100

More concerns about Gestalt Language Processing and the tension between 'neurodiversity-affirmative practices' and evidence-based practices. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

When we set benefit levels for people with disabilities we need to bear in mind it costs more for them to thrive than people without disabilities. If we truly want to ensure people with disabilities thrive they need more support than we currently give them.

When a disabled person experiences medical trauma or neglect, they’re told to “just lodge a complaint” Folks don’t understand how broken the complaint process is, or how quickly you can be labelled “difficult” and have your care suffer. My latest: disabledginger.com/p/why-dont-you…