🌟 Proud moment for our students! During placement, #students teamed up with people living with #dementia & #primaryprogressiveaphasia to co-design this resource for #DementiaAwarenessMonth: 🔗 lnkd.in/gCgq4nXU Share to spark conversation, raise #awareness, & amplify voices with #livedexperience! 💛

✨ Webinar Recording Live! ✨ We’re still smiling after Friday’s #AskTheExpert session on #socialmedia & #aphasia 💛 We heard from researchers Jennifer Lee, Josh Espinosa, & @abicommlab.bsky.social members @lissbee.bsky.social & Megan Trebilcock! 💬 Watch here! lnkd.in/gdkPGn_7 #BrainInjury

#Perfectionism: Strive for progress - not perfection. Stop trying to make that paragraph perfect. Make it better and get it in. Stop waiting for the perfect idea - work with what you've got and get on with it. Stop waiting for the perfect time - make a start now.

Mon 14 July, 4:00–5:30pm AEST Clinical Bite with A/Prof Anita Wong & Honours grad Joyce Cai on working with #multilingualfamilies and being #culturallysensitive. How can we better support families from #diversebackgrounds? Hear key strategies for culturally responsive practice. lnkd.in/ghrPmS-e

Had a little break from the socials - because everything - what have I missed?

Calling all UK SLTs working in CCD & TBI! Take part in research survey below! Share widely!

If you have more than you need, build a longer table - not a higher fence.

Went down a beautiful rabbit hole this morning reading this & beyond, thank you @mariapopova.bsky.social 🤗

Keynote 4 @icpla2025.bsky.social - Athanasios Karasimos talking my language. Board games great to use in teaching as low-cost and easily adapted! #icpla2025

#Deafblindness ≠ invisible Today is #InternationalDayOfDeafblindness. Let’s commit to: 🔹Making health information accessible in all formats 🔹Training health workers in inclusive communication 🔹Listening to and amplifying the voices of the deafblind community 👉 bit.ly/45KHBjq #HealthForAll

In @ashajournals.bsky.social 🆓🔓@lissbee.bsky.social Rietdijk Southwell @leannetogher.bsky.social et al The Peer Effect Is "Utterly Profound": A Social-ABI-lity Pilot Study of a Multicomponent, Peer-Moderated Social Media Skills Intervention for People w #ABI. doi.org/10.1044/2024... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Brilliant video on mental health after stroke by the Stroke Foundation 💙 #aphasia #stroke www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ag...

Members of the ABI #CommLab recently published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: The Peer Effect Is “Utterly Profound”: A Social-ABI-lity Pilot Study of a Peer-Moderated Social Media Skills Intervention for People With #AcquiredBrainInjury To read more: lnkd.in/gE-ka5Ps

#FinancialReview: 'Stunt double' helps university teachers clone themselves Dr Petra Avramovic, developed a Cogniti chatbot that acts as the parent of a child with a stutter. Students converse with Cogniti, giving advice on their clinical #communicationskills. www.afr.com/technology/stunt-...

Convers-ABI-lity is a 10-week program for people with #ABI and their #communicationpartners to build #conversationstogether. It includes self-guided activities and video calls with a speech pathologist. For more information, contact Dr Rachael Rietdijk: rachael.rietdijk@sydney.edu.au

Great event coming up! Hosted by the DHIN ECR Community Working Group 🙌 #DigitalHealth Dialogues: In Conversation with Dr Simon Kos 🗓 Wed 11 June, 3–5 pm 📍Susan Wakil Health Building, University of Sydney 🥂 Networking + refreshments RSVP by May 28: www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-he...

In @ashajournals.bsky.social Keegan LC Hoepner JK @leannetogher.bsky.social Kennedy M Bogart E @lissbee.bsky.social MacDonald S 2025. Social Communication Implementable and Applicable Lens: A Framework for Addressing Assessment of Social Communication. AJSLP. doi.org/10.1044/2025... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Recently got to present (at the IBIA World Congress) some awesome work by past Honours students (Charlene Lo, Sonia Tint, & Janet Tedjasasmita) on exploring #BrainInjury related posts on social media & developing an assessment tool to guide clinicians in supporting use of social media after ABI 🧵

We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession. The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

📣 We have a full-time Lab manager role available!! 🗣️ Join us in the ABI Communication Lab team @sydney.edu.au & work on #DigitalHealth projects supporting inclusion after #AcquiredBrainInjury. ▶️ For more information & to apply: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

If you're disabled, you are more likely to read books by able bodied writers that are inspiration p0rn or else detail how your life is ruined by disability, than books by actually disabled writers, as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social wrote in Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Thanks to IBIA for the prestigious Jennett Plum Award for Distinguished Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury at the World Congress. I was pleased to acknowledge the @abicommlab.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au team and my many mentors and colleagues who have supported my clinical research career #IBIA2025

📣 We have a full-time Lab manager role available!! 🗣️ Join us in the ABI Communication Lab team @sydney.edu.au & work on #DigitalHealth projects supporting inclusion after #AcquiredBrainInjury. ▶️ For more information & to apply: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

“Make sure you have a transistor radio, and spare batteries.” Some things still that the internet can’t magically do 🙃

Murrigellas will not let any cyclone get in our way. Vegemite toast coming up! Be prepared you mob! Water, food, battery powered radio, medicines! #Alfred #Cyclone #Brisbane

Have been glued to the news & sending love & care to everyone up home 🌀

How is it March already?!!!

New #aphasia and internet search paper from authors @hcid.city and @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social and beyond. openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/34... 🔎 #Search 🔡 #Aphasia ✅️ #A11y

"Because they were heard and listened to, it worked." Medical yarn-ups 🙌 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

📣 We have 3x3yr full-time postdocs available!!!!!! 🗣️ Join us in the ABI Communication Lab team @sydneyuni.bsky.social & work on #DigitalHealth projects supporting inclusion after #AcquiredBrainInjury. ▶️ For more information & to apply: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

We have digital USERS in our classrooms but not digital creators, managers. Students are used to consuming digital media and interactivity but not managing security, data, critical engagement. #CSET2025

Today we are inspired by @katiedigc.bsky.social for #citizenwellbeingscientist micro-moments of #selfcare Intentionally seeking and amplifying hope-generating content #hope #hopescrolling www.citizenwellbeingscientist.com/blog/3-minut...

Just out - Open Access #DevLangDis #DLD Leitão, S., St Clair, M., Botting, N., Gibson, J. L., & Jackson, E. (2025). “They don't realise how hard he has to try every day”: The rewards and challenges of parenting a child with developmental language disorder. IJLCD . dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460...

Here’s a very simple thing you can do to get people out of an information distortion field: help someone get set up on Bluesky. Sit with them, help them through the process *in person*, show them features, suggest good accounts to follow, put out a call for followers for them on your own account.

One of my co-authors with living experience of ABI, Stephen (known as Scoop), said when I told him this had been published: "We are now all international authors and no one can take that away from us" 🙌🙌 Giving people a platform to share their voice rather than speaking for them is the way forward.

Publication cake time 🎂🙌 "involvement of peer moderators has potential to foster more meaningful outcomes for all those involved; ...identifying people with brain injury who would thrive in these roles should be considered" Read #OpenAccess @ashajournals.bsky.social: pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

The most clicked-on article from the January @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter was a systematic review looking at gestalt language processing and natural language acquisition bit.ly/4i45Eg9 It's open access! #SLPeeps #SLP2B #SLT #bskySPEECHIES

Wow!!!! Thanks everyone 😍 We now have over 4K people who have accessed interact-ABI-lity & over 500 who have accessed social-ABI-lity 🙌 Check out these FREE resources: abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/social-brain...

A6: AI & smarttech can revolutionize #Accessibility by enabling personalized, adaptive solutions—voice assistants, real-time captioning, AI-driven navigation & smart home automation to enhance independence.But innovation must be ethical & co-designed with disabled & aging communities. #AXSChat #A11Y

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open! Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here: blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm... • Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK • Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025 • Conference: 18-20 August 2025 #aphasia

What does the science say about transgender women in sports? With all the talk about "men" in women's sports, it's time to take a look at what scientific studies say. A brilliant article 👏👏 www.advocate.com/news/transge...

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the #DigitalHealthWeek2025 prize winners 🙌🙌🙌 Very well deserved, I loved hearing about your research & interacting with everyone this week!!!!

Enjoying #DigitalHealthWeek2025 talk by @jenna-smith.bsky.social about her great work! Informing older women about the rationale for cessation of breast cancer screening invitations: A randomised trial of women aged 70-74 yrs in Australia @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social

Check out Aileen Zeng’s exciting ePoster.To hear more about their work drop in to the ePoster showcase presentation in Stream 3.2: Technology and the Health Workforce at #DigitalHealthWeek2025.

🎤 Insightful oral presentations today at #DigitalHealthWeek2025! Topics covered: 🔹 User-centered tech for better digital health decisions 🔹 AI tools empowering a smarter, safer healthcare workforce 🔹 NLP, LLMs & social media data for improved health outcomes @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

The @nihr.bsky.social Fellowship enabled me visit Australia last year to network. Thankfully hosted @leannetogher.bsky.social & @abicommlab.bsky.social @lissbee.bsky.social Rachael Rietdijk @petraavramovic.bsky.social @sophiebrassel.bsky.social @tusharprasad.bsky.social @elisebogart.bsky.social

Dear BSky community, our study on using open source tech to develop decision support dashboards for healthcare administrators is now live on #DigitalHealthWeek2025 🗳️ Please take a moment to check it out and vote for our poster to get more visibility on our study is.gd/Ban63w #Informatics

Listening to Jing Hern Kevin Poh on ‘Upskilling Consumers for the Digital Health Era: A Content Analysis of Resources for Consumer Representative Training’ (Poh/Mullen/Munot/Brennan/Chow/O'Hagan). Highlights critical gap and opportunity in equipping consumers as key partners #DigitalHealthWeek2025

Super important, multifaceted intervention targeting postnatal depression - amazing work Heilok Cheng and team! #DigitalHealthWeek2025 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social