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📢 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 🇵🇰 & 🇨🇦.
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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
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New OA paper! Dual language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4k5iivR
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🔧Giving resourcesdatabase.com 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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2 keynote speakers for @MolnarLab's #GraduateLanguageResearchDay announced!
1️⃣ Dr. Elissa Ferry
2️⃣ Dr. Sonya Bird
Details and registration below!
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register.oxfordabstracts.com…
#GLRD
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📣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: eventbrite.ca/e/bilingual-li…
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📢 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
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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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doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.17.2…
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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
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📢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⬇️
redcap.utoronto.ca/surveys/?…
😀Reposts & shares greatly appreciated!🙏
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Activation patterns in bilingual children align with those of bilingual adult studies
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jk…
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Our latest preprint investigates the neural mechanisms of task-based language and cognition in bilingual & monolingual children 🧠⚙️
We reviewed fMRI & fNIRS studies to compare brain regions engaged in bilingual 💬🗨️vs. monolingual 🗨️children
🔗osf.io/jkq9c
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Language Research Day 2024 is less than a week away! Network, learn, grow, it's free! Register now
register.oxfordabstracts.com…
#LRD2024 @MolnarLab
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Talking about why choose and use the tests we do when we evaluate bilingual children’s lang&lit skills!
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Come learn more at poster 25!
#SAC2024 @SAC_OAC
@MolnarLab @UofT
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Our meta-analysis examining the validity of dynamic assessments of word reading skills for diverse school-aged children is OUT #OpenAccess in @SIGPerspectives! ✅
If you assess PA&decoding&letter-sound with bilingual&at-risk students-consider reading!📚
pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.10…
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#Wordle playing people- We need you!
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Help us at the @MolnarLab find out what makes a good Wordler by participating in our Wordle study.
#NYTimes #nytwordle #nytconnections #nytspellingbee
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Study info & Eligibility criteria below
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BAM lab at #ASHA2023!
Learn more about how we #IgniteInnovation through the Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool (U-PASS), cross-language transfer, and clinical implications at session 4698L this Saturday!
@molnarlab – at Convention Center - South Boston Waterfront, Boston
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Excited to present today with @MolnarLab at @MultilingFamLab's Social Justice & Multilingualism Research series!
Learn more about our Multi-Literacies Open Network (M-LION) & development of equitable tools for #literacy assessment in #bilingual children! 📚👧🏽🧒🏾
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Interested in the precursors of early reading in bilingual children? Learn more in this #openaccess article from @InsiyaBhalloo for #ASHASIG14! on.asha.org/3ONCyEB @slpuoft @RSIUofT
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🔖New Paper Alert!🔖
Super excited to publish my first #systematic review in @ASHAJournals @SIGPerspectives with @MolnarLab ! The review contributes to #linguistic & #cultural diversity in #SLP & examines precursors of #reading development in bilingual children🧒🏾👦🏻