📢 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 🇵🇰 & 🇨🇦.
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
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
📚 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 👇
🚨 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 👇
🔧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
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
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!
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
📢 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
📢 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
📢 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
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!🦉
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
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
📢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!🙏