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Thomas Hopkins

@HopoTom

Senior psych lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy #Sltatbcu. Interests; language, literacy and offending behaviour, sport, music and improv comedy! views own

 Sheffield, England
Joined September 2017
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👶Supporting early language development 👶 We are delighted to launch our website & resources to support ELIM-I use in practice developed in partnership with @iHealthVisiting & @bbcthp. Please take a look at the 'super communicator' resources & guidance research.ncl.ac.uk/elim-i/el…
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Maxine Winstanley@DrMaxineW2 Dec 2023
Identifying & describing DLD in children - Kuiack - International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders - Wiley Online Library If you’re a first year student (Jan start) at UCLan & you have a DLD exam looming, I’d pop this on the reading list ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Identifying and describing developmental language disorder in children

Background In 2016–17 an important consensus was established regarding the use of the diagnostic label ‘developmental language disorder’ (DLD) to describe children with a persistent language proble...

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Sarah McGeown@DrSarahMcG14 Dec 2023
New paper - Adolescents' perspectives on barriers to reading for pleasure: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…. Led by @charlwebber_ . Funded by @SocSciScotland + @scottishbktrust. Recommended for researchers + secondary teachers! @KatherineSBT @LG_Duncan @The_UKLA Upcoming talk details 👇
Adolescents' perspectives on the barriers to reading for pleasure

Adolescents' perspectives on the barriers to reading for pleasure

Adolescence is often positioned as a particularly vulnerable period for reading motivation and engagement, both for academic reading and reading for pleasure. However, closer scrutiny of the litera...

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Mershen Pillay@mershen18 Nov 2023
Decoloniality and healthcare higher education: Critical conversations - Pillay - International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Decoloniality and healthcare higher education: Critical conversations

Decoloniality and healthcare higher education: Critical conversations

Background We explore the theoretical and methodological aspects of decolonising speech and language therapy (SLT) higher education in the United Kingdom. We begin by providing the background of...

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The majority of participants expressed some degree ofuncertainty with regard to diagnostic criteria, particularly for DLD - Diagnostic procedures of paediatric speech and language therapists in the UK: Enabling and obstructive factors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Excited to announce a new project starting very soon, using experience based co-design to explore the experiences of families when receiving a diagnonsis of #DLD 😊
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Yesterday our paper presenting the outcomes of our study to develop a tool for HVs to identify children at risk of SLCN at the 2 - 2 1/2 year review was published. - The ELIM-I. It means such a great deal to have another Law et al paper published. bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com…
The development and productivity of a measure for identifying low language abilities in children...

The development and productivity of a measure for identifying low language abilities in children...

BMC Pediatrics - Accurate early identification of children with low language ability is important but existing measures generally have low sensitivity. This remains an area of concern for...

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SLT at BCU@SLTatBCU3 Jul 2023
After 20 years at BCU 2 of our staff Fiona Wilcox and Helen Jenkins are leaving BCU SLT. We are making a memory book for each of them so if you would like to share memories &/ photos of them please get in touch. More details in the pic or DM us. Please keep it a secret❤️🧡💛💚
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Calling #slts in England who are returning to practice or have recently returned after having a career break. Would love to hear about your experience returning so please get in touch with me directly if interested. Have heard from AHPs but missing SLT so please share! 😊
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Danielle@SLTdanielle14 Jun 2023
I'm looking for UK #SLTs to take part in my MSc project exploring your understanding and knowledge about #neurodiversity affirming approaches! Please get in touch if you're interested in taking part in this online questionnaire or would like any more info! Please share 🌈
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Calling SLT's! Would you be willing to talk about your experiences as a practice educator ? Any offers to participate would be most appreciated and will help contribute to the knowledge and understanding of this important role to support practitioner development and wellbeing ☺️
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The latest Language 0-5 Project paper has just been accepted by Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Its on executive function, language and sentence processing in English 3 year olds. All materials including manuscript are here on #OSF. osf.io/zqmf2/
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Final call out to anyone returned/ing to practice in allied health in England after career break! Would love to interview you about your experience returning! Message me for further details. 😊 #iamreadytoreturn
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This week, we have summarised a paper looking at social cognition in adolescents with DLD. The authors of the paper are Claire Forrest @drC_Fo , Vanessa Lloyd-Esenkaya @DrV_Ll_Es , Jenny Gibson @DrJennyG and Michelle C. St Clair @michellestclair
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Padlet link for our exciting online seminar this eve for Q& A:padlet.com/clairewestwood1/e… #homelessnessSLT @SLTBCU50
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Amazing to see our first paper of many from @Engage_DLD out there!
Nikki Botting (@botting_nikki) profile pictureNikki Botting@botting_nikki24 Dec 2022
Delighted to see our @Engage_DLD paper out today - many thanks to all the families helping to extend our understanding of #devlangdis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #SLPeeps @michellestclair @Suze_Freogirl @DrV_Ll_Es @DrJennyG @EmilyMayJackson @CityLCS @CityUniHealth
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