The SHAPE CODING system
The SHAPE CODING system is an evidence-based method designed to help children with language disorders to learn the structure of language, to support their understanding and use of language.
www.shapecoding.com
- 🚨 Only 6 days until #DLDday 💜💛 Today we're sharing @radld.bsky.social ambassador, Shelbi's, brilliant "You can't see DLD" video. We challenge you to share this with one person you think may never have heard of #DLD. #DevLangDis #YouCantSeeDLD #DLDAwareness youtu.be/R7Wd1X-RAek?...
- A very enthusiastic shape coder declared “I love maths!” when I got his folder out today 🌟 A big fan of @shapecoding.com
- So pleased to have been able to contribute a chapter to this book edited so expertly by Rosalind Herman and Charlotte Ems.
- Book now out that includes a chapter written by Glynis Haines & @susanebbels.bsky.social on using the SHAPE CODING system to help deaf children develop their use and understanding of English grammar. academic.oup.com/book/60455?l...
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- A very special final day (3rd of July 2025) at the IV Congresso Internacional em Variação Linguística, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal congresso.varialing.eu/jornadas/
- Come and join our MISLToe_SSD team! Great opportunity for post doc in SLT, linguistics or psychology. www.nbt.nhs.uk/careers/curr...
- More postdoc opportunities in Oxford! 3-year British Academy Fellowships, for start in 2026. For work in any area of linguistics. Expressions of Interest (brief!) for internal competition due July 28. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/06...
- Wonderful to finally see our Oxleas SLT conference- “from birth to end of life” come together. 100 SLTs met to learn, reflect and hear from inspirational speakers #bskyspeechies @speedoftrust27.bsky.social @rachelbartonslt.bsky.social @annavolkmer.bsky.social #rcslt80 This is what they thought
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- This exercise really highlighted that DLD interventions must be adapted for language-specific errors. I hope my attempted adaptations of @shapecoding.com for Portuguese are helpful for the 300 Brazilian SLTs who will attend Thursday's course & will help the children with DLD that they work with.
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- Our popular webinars are back for a new series and available to book now! These webinars are aimed specifically at helping staff in busy, mainstream schools to support young people with DLD. Find out more on the link below www.moorhouseinstitute.com/.../dld-webi... #webinarseries #devlangdis
- See our new paper exploring Tasmanian #SLP perspectives on priorities for grammar intervention for children with #DevLangDis. 50 free ecopies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PVVW2...
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View full threadMore work needs to be done to explore the perspectives of caregivers of and children with #DevLangDis as the consumers of such interventions.
- This research was driven by an ongoing evaluation of TheMEDI. Check out the intervention manual here, along with other free-to-access resources for #SLP practice from #LaLYP: languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/resources/fr...
- With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.
- Been using this target identification spreadsheet lots recently for an on-going project shapecoding.com/resources/gr... This revealed a few bugs in some of the cells. So, please download again if you want a (hopefully) bug-free version. Fyi, comprehension cutoff also changed from 85% to 80%.
- 🦦 Meet Oscar! A book for young children with DLD and other SLCN 🦦 cogmazepublishing.com We hope 🤞 Oscar will help develop strategies & build confidence 😊 Meet Oscar, the kind otter, with his warm and loving heart, He sometimes finds words tricky but he’s really very smart, #DevLangDis
- The Child Language Symposium 2025 will be hosted by the University of Reading on September 8th-10th. Our call for papers is now open and will close on 28th February. Submit your abstract for a poster, an oral presentation, a symposium, or a lightening talk. Pls RT research.reading.ac.uk/cls2025/
- Bookings for the #NAPLIC25 conference are now open. March 29th in Birmingham for all things #DevLangDis & #SLCN. Jenny Gibson: social emotional development Hannah Harvey: diagnosis Amanda Finer: children's experiences Amy Gaunt: oracy Lived experience too! Details: www.naplic.org.uk/conferences/
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- Thanks for sharing @nichola-slp.bsky.social understanding the impact of #DevLangDis across the lifespan is important and this article adds valuable insights @jowallinger.bsky.social @shaunziegenfusz.bsky.social @susanebbels.bsky.social @beckyclark22.bsky.social
- This has gone to the top of the reading pile. #DevLangDis #SLPeeps
- And final #DevLangDis post from me today is the 'I have DLD' card from Afasic. A card for people with Developmental Language Disorder to show so others understand their needs. www.afasic.org.uk/product/dld-... VERY cheap!
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- Here's a feed you can pin that tracks #DLD and #DevLangDis During the current unexpected explosion of millions of new users, it might not behave 100% correctly, but should even out eventually. bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Try out the SHAPE CODING system App with a two-week FREE TRIAL shapecoding.com/app-info/buy... #devlangdis #SLT #shapecoding
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