Amanda Van Horne
Helping little kids say big sentences. I study kids with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), trained as an SLP, using Implementation Science frameworks, reading deeply about Climate Change and Disaster Research. All posts my own.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneFun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneThey call it "pulling a Vatican"
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneCan't believe I have to say this but climate change is responsible for extreme cold snaps.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneIn my last ice storm, I lost power for 10 days and ended up camping out in a church. That experience led to the question in this paper that went live this week. Does climate change influence disaster readiness by churches? Sadly, the answer is not really. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneDeutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneThese are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.
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- Reposted by Amanda Van Horne"the priorities of [school] board members have large causal effects...the effect of electing an equity-focused member for low-income students is equivalent to assigning every such student a teacher who is 0.3 to 0.4 SDs higher in the distribution of teacher value-added" www.nber.org/papers/w34590
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneTake a break from doom scrolling and have a little peak at the commission. I’m working on today. Next step, the grasshopper and the foliage.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneBREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneWe're excited to announce the finalists of the #RSPPhotoComp 2025! 🎉 Starting with #microimaging and overall winner, 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Dr Martin Ramirez, capturing two exceptional silk threads of the Australian net-caster spider (sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff @evoimec.bsky.social).
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneAustralia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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- From hospital records to family papers, collections give unique insights into health across time and place. But they don’t just have historical value. Collections have incredible potential for discovery research – and we need to unlock it. Learn more in our report: wellcome.org/insights/rep...
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneDon't do any of this.
- I am looking for a downloadable list of English transitive verbs. Anyone know of a good resource? #childLanguage #languagedisorders #languagetherapy
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneUntil the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneI’m thrilled to contribute to this effort to think big and longterm about a path to substantial reductions in gun violence, suicides, and injuries in the US. Solutions depend not only on good data and science as a guide, but on political and social change for a whole govt and society approach.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneHere’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general. The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals. John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneToo many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneIf SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
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- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneI looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneSNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneNo one "deserves it" but it bears repeating that almost 1/2 of adult SNAP recipients are white, and children make up 40% of the total recipients. 1.2 million veterans depend on SNAP. Able-bodied adults are less than 10% of SNAP recipients and can only claim it temporarily, under certain conditions.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneI want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneToday marks the first day of early voting in Texas! For the November 4 election, the early voting window runs from October 20 to October 31. Make your voice heard, check your polling location, bring one of the approved photo IDs, and vote early.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneThis is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary. This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
- I'm a bit late to the party, but I finally watched this lecture in anticipation of #DLDday. Thanks @hannahhobson.bsky.social for the amazing work you do and for making me think about why & when camouflaging occurs (And thanks to the @radld.bsky.social board for organizing) #DevLangDis
- Masking / camouflaging in DLD is an issue that is coming to the fore. So we are very pleased that this is the theme that Dr Hannah Hobson from University of York will be addressing in this year's Dorothy Bishop lecture. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-d... #DLDay #DevLangDis
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneSpotted in a staff room of a school I was visiting today! My eyes nearly popped out of my head. Can you spot it? The #RADLD bubble out in the wild. #DLD awareness is spreading! #devlangdis #DLDday
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneWe need every teacher to know about DLD, as there are on average 2 children with it in every class of 30. #DevLangDis #DLDday
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneYou can't see DLD, and so many people's needs are missed. They go through life struggling, never knowing that there is a reason why things are so hard for them. Learn about it here: radld.org/about/dld/dl... #DLDday #DevLangDis
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneDLD is different in each child, but looking back many parents remember a time that their child's language stood out, like Nichole here who noticed her child struggling with literacy and spoken sentences. This example is of a child, but it affects adults too. #DLDday #DevLangDis radld.org
- With help from @leighmcleanphd.bsky.social (Professor Cookie!) our lab spent today getting ready for #DLDday
- Publisher embargoes + public access policy
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneWe’ve now heard that most of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at ED is being let go as well. The harm caused to students if these layoffs are allowed to proceed cannot be overstated. ED cannot carry out its statutorily required duties without these offices.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneThe end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
- Reposted by Amanda Van Horne⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:
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- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneTICLD are at #CLS2025 #ChildLanguageSymposium2025 over the next three days in Reading, UK. First up is @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social with "What outcomes are measured in intervention for children with DLD? A systematic review of intervention studies" (Carol-Anne Murphy, Tom Braddon..
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneNow that the US Administration has discovered no one will stop it from shattering each university by illegally impounding the public’s money, it can proceed to dictate whatever it likes, without limit, at every school. Indefinitely. Until our other coequal branches of government do their duty.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneWord Aware (whole school vocabulary), Language for Thinking and Language for Behaviour and Emotions courses date for the year are available here. Our approaches are practical and effective and well suited to teachers and SaLT. thinkingtalking.co.uk/finding-a-wo... #vocabulary #SLCN #DevLangDis
- Reposted by Amanda Van Horne🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HornePlease help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneHONOLULU (AP) — Tsunami warning sirens blare in Honolulu and people are told to move to higher ground after earthquake off Russia.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneOMG. They cannot have NOT known the literal most famous headline from The Onion.
- Reposted by Amanda Van Horne0045Z, 7/30: A #TsunamiWarning is now in effect for #Hawaii. ETA 7:17 PM HST tonight. Urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property along coastlines! #Tsunami
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- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneWIRED is hiring! We're looking for a senior writer to cover the frontiers of scientific advancement—breakthroughs in space tech, quantum science, nanotechnology, batteries, and more—and the people and companies behind them. This role is based in our London office. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
- Remote mixed methods educational researcher position focused on DOE data and affiliated with UD CRESP group careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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- Reposted by Amanda Van Horne🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneThe Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas has launched healing circles to help families and young people cope with trauma following the Hill Country floods.
- Reposted by Amanda Van HorneThe President’s budget proposes devastating cuts to NOAA, which helps everyone understand and prepare for extreme weather. NOAA was also in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighborhoods. bsky.app/profile/cost...
