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Bilingual & Multilingual (BAM!) Development Lab @uoft @slpuoft|infancy➨adulthood|research⇆clinical practice|👀eye-tracking🧠EEG❤️heart-rate|PI:Dr. Monika Molnar

[Insiya Bhalloo, PhD @InsiyaBhalloo]

📢 New publication alert! @MolnarLab

Did you know your first language can boost reading in your second? 📚

Our new study shows how Urdu skills in kindergarten help predict English reading in Grade 1 for children in 🇵🇰 & 🇨🇦.

[Insiya Bhalloo, PhD @InsiyaBhalloo]

New Tool! w/@MolnarLab

Excited to share U-PASS, a linguistically responsive, pre-reading assessment tool for Urdu-English bilingual children. We demonstrated concurrent validity across Canada and Pakistan. A promising step toward equitable early identification! #EarlyLiteracy

[Human Abilities in Bilingual Language Aquisition @HABLAlab]

New OA paper! Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/noZNwN0ARG

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📚 Most reading research focuses on monolinguals & Latin scripts—but what about biscriptal bilinguals?
Our longitudinal study of Urdu-English readers in 🇵🇰 & 🇨🇦 shows phonological awareness & RAN matter across scripts & orthographic depths 👇

[Insiya Bhalloo, PhD @InsiyaBhalloo]

Excited to share our latest paper on Urdu-English #bilinguals in Pakistan and Canada! 🇵🇰🇨🇦

Read it here: https://t.co/9KTtKh79OT

@MolnarLab

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Still not too late to register 😎 #GLRD

[BAM! TO @MolnarLab]

🚨 This Thursday (June 19)!
Join us from anywhere in the world for a virtual event featuring two amazing keynote speakers — Dr. Alissa Ferry and Dr. Sonya Bird — as they explore the fascinating world of language development. 🌍🧠
Tap for details 👇

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

2 keynote speakers for @MolnarLab's #GraduateLanguageResearchDay announced!
1️⃣ Dr. Elissa Ferry
2️⃣ Dr. Sonya Bird
Details and registration below!
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https://t.co/P8XOI1tXTx
#GLRD

[Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇴 @JoscelinRocha]

🔧Giving https://t.co/XpuYnXkcnE a much-needed summer upgrade!

Started as a GitHub wiki, now a #Quarto site. Only 50% done, but it's been fun revisiting 6 yrs' worth of #rstats resources.

I do hope it helps someone out there!

#openscience #AcademicTwitter #datascience #DataViz

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She spoke for 3 minutes—and moved hearts across the province. @ekw_slp won the #3MT People's Choice Award at the provincial level, reminding us all of the power of research.😎Thank u @SSHRC_CRSH for funding this important work. @uoftmedicine @UofT @UofTNews @RSIUofT @UofT_SLP

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

It was a huge honour to represent the @UofT at the Ontario #3MT three minute thesis provincial competition this year, and an even bigger honour to win Participant's Choice!

Thank you @MolnarLab, judges and CGPD! Congratulations to all finalists and winners!

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Congratulations @baowenfu and thank you @NSERC_CRSNG for funding this project!

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For the budget-conscious cognitive scientist: your participant's heart already knows what their brain is doing. Heart rate reveals spoken language processing secrets that behavior can't. No expensive scanners required ❤️ https://t.co/JuPmS0sV5s

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

2 keynote speakers for @MolnarLab's #GraduateLanguageResearchDay announced!
1️⃣ Dr. Elissa Ferry
2️⃣ Dr. Sonya Bird
Details and registration below!
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https://t.co/P8XOI1tXTx
#GLRD

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

📣Yearly @MolnarLab Workshop Series

📚What: Bilingual literacy
⏰When: Friday May 30th 2:00–5:00 PM
📍Where: 500 University Ave, Toronto/Hybrid Zoom
🙇Who: Dr. Becky Chen (OISE) Dr. Guofang Li (UBC) Besy Karantzoulis (SLP)
💸Cost: Free
📝How to register: https://t.co/s8QtcdO1oz

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📢 Calling all #SLPs, #educators & researchers!
Join us for a free hybrid workshop and panel on #bilingual literacy development 📚🌍 🗓️ May 30 | 2–5PM EDT
📍 Hybrid: 500 University Ave, Toronto/Zoom
🔗 RSVP: https://t.co/w88C4arJrw

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

📢 Calling all language lovers!
🎉Join us for Graduate Language Research Day 2025
🗓 Date: June 19, 2025
📍 Where: Online
💵 Cost: Free
💡Grad students -submit abstracts by May 1
🔗Undergrads -register to attend!
#LanguageResearch #GradConference #UofT #Bilingualism
@MolnarLab

[BAM! TO @MolnarLab]

📢 JOB opportunity 📢The Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology at @uoftmedicine @UofT invites applications for a tenure-track position in the area(s) of speech, language and/or swallowing science: https://t.co/jBSaBnefGe

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

Happily presented DOLLi: A dynamic omni-language literacy screener last week at Duolingo Research Day as a grant recipient. At @MolnarLab we strive to make fairer, more accurate pre-reading screeners for multilinguals. 🌍Thanks Duolingo for supporting my PhD and for hosting us!🦉

[Emily Wood @ekw_slp]

New Preprint! *Who are the Speech-Language Pathologists of the Future?*
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We report results of a national demographic survey of SLP students
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Do we represent the populations we serve in terms of sex, gender, language, culture, race and SES?
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https://t.co/bHMXUuhwct

[Insiya Bhalloo, PhD @InsiyaBhalloo]

Over 50% of the 🌎is bilingual! Yet - most #bilingual children do not have access to appropriate early reading assessments - due to limited heritage-language tools! 📚👧🏽🧒🏾

Our Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool (U-PASS) addresses this global #accessibility issue @MolnarLab

[Kai Ian Leung @kaii_leung]

📢The @MolnarLab is looking for Canadian #healthcare sector clinicians working with bi/multilingual pediatric clients for a study on clinician perspectives📢

Visit link to sign up⬇️
https://t.co/BPctPw0ryz

😀Reposts & shares greatly appreciated!🙏

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

Activation patterns in bilingual children align with those of bilingual adult studies
https://t.co/5OTlin6dGC