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Dr Marleen Westerveld @MWslp

Prof, Speech Pathologist 🇦🇺, FSPA, Focus on child language and literacy. #DevLangDis #SpeakUp4CommRights #LanguageSampling Views are mine.

Joined December 2012
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Dr Marleen Westerveld@MWslp
6 Dec 2025
Dear Twitter friends - #speechies #SLP #slp2b - I have decided to leave X - and use Instagram instead - you can follow me on @dr.marleenwesterveld.slp for all things narrative 🤩
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#speechies - register for this FREE live online symposium and hear more about personal narratives- assessment / analysis / cultural influences. Check out the program and keynotes sites.google.com/ualberta.ca…
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Global TALES Network Symposium - call for abstracts now open! Calling all researchers investigating personal narratives to consider presenting. Live or online - not pre-recorded - 3 time zones! Visit sites.google.com/ualberta.ca… for more info @IALP_Global @HABLAlab
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Ping @ilknurmavis @Renagalway @shaunziegenfusz @matejagabaj
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Dr Marleen Westerveld retweeted
IALP@IALP_Global
17 Sep 2024
Together we can do better! We’re excited to announce our partnership with @RADLDcam
RADLDcampaign@RADLDcam
16 Sep 2024
📢 Exciting Partnership Announcement! 🤝 We are thrilled to announce that Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (RADLD) is partnering with the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) @IALP_Global! 1/3 #DevLangDis
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Check out these community poll results from "Global TALES Network" at IASCL 2024 - XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language! #IASCL2024 - oh no! Aiming for higher % in iascl2027. osf.io/ztqg6/
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I am speaking at IASCL 2024 - XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #IASCL2024 - via #Whova event app #Global TALES ⁦@IALP_Global⁩ #speechies
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#ialp100 “listening = hearing with intent” great presentation by Mridula Sharma - audiology committee @IALP_Global
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#ialp100 - Nice to see our Global TALES special issue displayed in Vienna @IALP_Global - more info - youtu.be/bN4iGbyihZA?si=Syr3… @KargerPublisher - presenting this afternoon.
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#ialp100 - a very timely preso by Janice Murray on future opportunities for SLPs including technology / digital literacy - !!! watch this space !!!@IALP_Global - the child language committee will launch their digital literacy survey soon!!
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I am so sorry I missed #spaconf2024!! Family had to come first But - looking forward to receiving submissions for the @IJSLP conference special issue! See details below! Any questions - feel free to DM
Prof Natalie Munro@NatalieMunro3
28 May 2024
#SPAConf2024 presenters - do consider submitting your research to the @IJSLP national conference special issue. Practice based submissions are also welcome to the special conf issue of @JCPSLP - submission details for both can be found here 👇 speechpathologyaustralia.org…
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Dr Marleen Westerveld retweeted
Dr Kate de Bruin@DrKatedeBruin
12 Mar 2024
Final call for young people, teacher aides, teachers and school leaders to complete this questionnaire on the role of the teacher aide in #InclusiveEducation in Australian schools Link here: lnkd.in/g698mUYG
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Global TALES: Personal narratives of children in Iceland youtu.be/0ilI6kP-EmU?si=Bv21… via @YouTube - what do children talk about? And more! @JohannaEinarsd1 @SpeechMary @nickolanelson @IALP_Global @amywongmy @KargerPublisher @Dr_Khaloob @Renagalway #globaltales #languagesampling
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Dr Marleen Westerveld retweeted
Jessica Paynter@Jess_Paynter
14 Dec 2023
Research out today from our team (rdcu.be/dtywc) is from the LASA longitudinal study which followed 216 autistic children up over five years. The results shows that at least one-third of autistic children have "spiky" profiles across their learning and support skills.

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Paper 1 of our Special Folia Phoniatrica Issue on Global TALES: Personal narratives of 10-year-old children in Iceland– verbal productivity, word diversity, and topics! Watch youtu.be/0ilI6kP-EmU @IALP_Global @JohannaEinarsd1 @KargerPublisher @Renagalway #speechies #languages

Global TALES: Personal narratives of children in Iceland

This brief video showcases a recent paper published by our colleagu...

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Fascinating! #devlangdisorder #language-learning Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language | University of Cambridge #slp2be cam.ac.uk/research/news/why-…

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That’s because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic...

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Dr Marleen Westerveld retweeted
Dorothy Bishop (inactive account)@deevybee
9 Dec 2023
Please to announce that our book Evaluating What Works has now been updated online bookdown.org/dorothy_bishop/… (free) and is also available for purchase if you want hard copy or ebook: taylorfrancis.com/books/mono…

Evaluating What Works

Introduction to methods for evaluating effectiveness of non-medical interventions

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Dr Marleen Westerveld retweeted
IALP@IALP_Global
6 Dec 2023
Must read! Our Child Language Committee proudly presents a Special Issue of FLP @KargerPublisher on Evaluating Children’s Personal Narrative Skills Using the Global TALES Protocol on narrative skills @MWslp & @nickolanelson 🎥watch youtu.be/bN4iGbyihZA

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Dr Marleen Westerveld retweeted
W Scharff Rethfeldt 🕊@W_Scharff
6 Dec 2023
Replying to @KargerPublisher
To all interested in child language assessment: Don’t miss this great work by @MWslp @nickolanelson @SpeechMary @Renagalway et al , the Child Language Committe @IALP_Global individual and members of an #IALP affiliated society have free access 😉
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