March 10, 2026

CLTT special issue - first articles published early online

Holly McAlister and I are the guest editors of a special issue of Child Language Teaching and Therapy titled "Listening to Children with Diverse Communication Abilities".

 Here are the first papers to be published (early online) for the special issue. 

  1. Weir, S., Forster, S., & Clendon, S. (2026, in press). Exploring voice and participatory processes for children who communicate in unconventional ways. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590261422660 
  2. Spencer, S., Roberts, V., Schroeter, K., & Clegg, J. (2026, in press). Being understood: Neurodivergent care leavers’ perspectives on their own communication skills. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590251411749 
  3. Gregoric, C., McLeod, S., Hopf, S. C., Downey, B., Rahman, A., Sikder, S., Zischke, C., Tran, V. H., Murray, E., McAlister, H., Ivory, N., Delli-Pizzi, L., Elwick, S., Dealtry, L., & Davies, J. (2026, in press). Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals by listening to children's voices across the globe. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590251406102 *
  4. McCormack, J., Cronin, A., McLeod, S., Ireland, M., Wang, C., & Tiong, C. (2026, in press). Children's drawings of intervention for childhood apraxia of speech: Place, people, activity, and emotion. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590251375340 *

(*CLTT editors-in-chief managed peer review)