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smsaunders.bsky.social
International educator for 35 years.
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

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A nice summary of a Delphi study (that can be found here: osf.io/preprints/os...), which sought consensus on dyslexia. Highlights the link between oral and written language. #SLPeeps

I find the discussions about 'fun' in education really interesting because to my mind what we're actually talking about is encouraging intrinsic motivation, supporting engagement and building on learner interests and agency. Thread. 🧵 1/4

Our latest research paper on the effectiveness of individualized & explicit intervention using the SHAPE CODING system for children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is available here: pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... #DevLangDis #bskySPEECHIES

Thanks for this brilliant summary… amid the many ofsted flaws finally acknowledging the contingency of pedagogy upon content was not one of them!

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If schools and local authorities actually made accomodations for neurodivergent individuals, rather than trying to make us mimic neurotypical people, many of us would have flourished more at school, instead of being written off. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Professional Performance Monitoring; a middle path. Blog by Stuart Kime ✍️ Read it here 👇

This is one of those blog posts that ticks along doing respectable numbers just from organic google searches. Clearly a widespread problem. It's a very personal one this as I have always struggled with times tables. www.aidansevers.com/post/how-can...