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Brazil! Thank you 🙏💙 Or should I say Obrigada! 🙏💙

On Childhood Apraxia Awareness Day, a shout out to the amazing teams who have identied that #CAS is a red flag for a genetic condition, with 1 in 3 cases being of genetic cause, & identified over 30 genes linked to CAS. 💙 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36117209/ geneticsofspeech.org.au

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To support the launch of BookTrust's Reading Rights report today with Frank Cottrell-Boyce, here are six neuroscience-informed tips for sharing books with young children 👇

Repetition: young brains are messy and overconnected. When they want to read the same book over and over, or look at the same picture – go with it! Doing things repeatedly helps to ‘practice’ understanding something, which builds stronger brain networks. doi.org/10.1177/174569…

Responsiveness: because children’s brains are messy, sometimes they’re ready for new information and sometimes they’re not. Waiting for them to initiate –by asking, looking or pointing – helps you to be sure that new info arrives when their brain is ready. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Rhythm: giving language input with a strong rhythmic structure can help to nudge a child’s brain rhythms, which naturally are more irregular, into more stable adult-like rhythms, which helps language processing. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.…

Clarity: Hyper-articulating speech sounds by exaggerating mouth movements helps young children to hear the differences between words. It also helps if your child can see your mouth while you’re talking. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01004.x

Structure: The frontal cortex, which helps join separate experiences into coherent goals, is slow to develop. Stories have structure. Regular story-telling may help to learn to understand about predictability and structure helping to learn to set goals. doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

Glamping holidays in #Cornwall for #Neurodiverse families

Our #ReadingRights report with Frank Cottrell-Boyce is out today, because early shared reading is vital. Frank & our CEO Diana Gerald joined Sam Wass at the Institute for the Science of Early Years & Youth Baby Lab to discover what a difference it makes - watch the full vid 👇 booktrust.org.uk/about-us/readi… Arts Council England

Day 21 of #10kStepsForMay so that more people can access Speech and Language Therapy 💙 Literally double my usual daily step count, and still going strong - I can't resist a challenge! Any donations, no matter how small, are welcome: gofund.me/4ac7f1c1 for Mikey's Wish Foundation

AHAwards💙 IBMS #AtTheHeartOfHealthcare Academy for Healthcare Science BAPO Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Welsh Government Health and Social Care Department of Health Professor Michelle Tennyson Health Innovation Network PHAffairs Professor Dame Sue Hill BIOS British Dietetic Association Fingers crossed for our RCSLTpolicy colleagues & the Invest in SLTs campaign 🤞 Mikey's Wish Foundation

😊 Excited to be a #AHAwards ceremony finalist! 😍 Huge RCSLT 💙 thanks to Gillian Rudd Dave Harford Fewtrella Georgia Wilson for representing Mikey's Wish Foundation 's #InvestInSLT team. 🥰And to the other team members: Louisa, Sharon Oliphant Karen Massey 💙 Author 🧡 Entrepreneur Pam Slater & francesca beard.

Good luck, team! Whatever the outcome, I am so pleased to be here with other members of the #InvestInSLT team to celebrate the work we've done to promote the importance of better access to support and to raise awareness of the need for change. #AHAwards

"We need a national, fully funded strategy that embeds early speech and language support across all early years, primary, and secondary settings – and a workforce strategy to make it deliverable." Read our response⬇️ speechandlanguage.org.uk/about-us/news-…

🚨 Ahead of tomorrow's #SpendingReview a reminder of why the need to #InvestInSLT is so important. 😊 It's not just RCSLT 💙 who says that - so did almost 50 other organisations who supported the debate briefing on Mikey's Wish Foundation's petition. 1/ rcslt.org/news/invest-in…

🗣️ MPs have also highlighted the need to #InvestInSLT including in the debate on 27 January on Mikey's Wish Foundation petition. 2/2 hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025-0…

The Sensory Speech Box Karen Massey 💙 Author 🧡 Entrepreneur has produced lots of educational books for children. We are delighted to support them by stocking their ebooks in our virtual bookshop. Read all about them on their store page: greencatbooks.com/store/sensory-… #SBSWinnersHour #Collaboration