Do bilingual readers possess two distinct visual word form areas (VWFA) ?
See our new preprint on the cortical circuits for reading in high-resolution 7 Tesla fMRI with @zhanminye, Christophe Pallier and Laurent Cohen :
https://t.co/ThcVDH0mo8
Adverse Childhood Experiences, (ACEs) are stressful or traumatic experiences that can have a huge impact on children and young people throughout their lives.
New small study corroborating previous studies that children with #DevLangDis have difficulties in phonological awareness @NAPLIC #DLD https://t.co/i8r5YoDKgs
Download our free guides! Get both: 5 steps to make the most of shared reading time, and how to explicitly help your children with common word reading mistakes. Find them here https://t.co/iDhRy1CbdH @DDTN13 @TNDyslexia@TNedu#dyslexia
This article reflects the cognitive inefficiency we are seeing in the ASD + dyslexic brain. Because the hubs do not communicate efficiently our patients have to work harder to process what is relevant information in the noise. https://t.co/OUDq8oetlk
It’s Dementia Awareness Week this week. Speech & Language Therapists can support people living with dementia with swallowing and communication difficulties. You can contact your local service or @alzscot helpline for advice #dementiaawarenessweek#dementia#SLT#withSLTyoucan
The May @speechBITE newsletter is out now: https://t.co/abZZajZ73x Covering Rx for paediatric language, literacy and speech, aphasia, Parkinson’s disease, dysphagia, paediatric feeding, stuttering, and voice. Six of the papers are open access! #SLPeeps#slp2b#wespeechies#SLT
Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) is impaired oral intake that is not age-appropriate and is associated with medical, nutrition, feeding skill, and/or psychosocial dysfunction. Scroll through the photos to learn more about PFD. #PFDAwarenessMonth#CallItPFD#FeedingMatters
A thread with some basic red flags in data graphs.
As physicists we stare at data a lot and it is surprising how frequent data representation in media (and even in science) distorts the message.
In extreme cases you end up with ridiculous plots like this:
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MYTH 💭 "The parents must have done something wrong."
➡️ The causes of cleft are complicated and will be different for everyone, but it's very unlikely to be because of something a child's parents did or didn't do.
#MyCleftJourney#CleftAware