Sympatico Research Group

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Next week, we look forward to speaking with A/Prof Mershen Pillay @mershen1 about his paper "Decoloniality and healthcare higher education: Critical conversations" 16/10 at 12pm AEST To join: please DM us your email and we can share the online meeting link.

Great discussion tonight at our Sympatico SIG meeting where we chatted with @vishinair5 about the thought-provoking paper re standardised testing in SLT. Really interesting perspectives from colleagues in UK, Australia & NZ. Looking forward to the next one.

Excuse me internet, we now have a German adaptation of aphasiatherapyonline.com/de thanks to Lena Werner, @DoroPeitz and Katja Hußmann 🇩🇪🥳 This provides a free option to *self manage* therapy tasks for German speakers with #aphasia

Our new OPEN access paper✅using data from @strokefdn national audit shows #stroke survivors who need #interpreters have different care & outcomes in acute hospital. More research coming from @KathleenMellahn's doctoral work looking at rehab outcomes & perspectives of the MDT.

New paper led by @Fran_SLP_ED shares rich insights from #Indigenous health liaison officers re working with #slpeeps and First Peoples who have had a stroke or TBI. Grateful to Gunggandji man Waverley & Yiman woman Jenna for their role in facilitating data collection & analysis.

Two speech pathologists have adapted the Castilian Spanish materials from aphasiatherapyonline.com to a Latin American context, including re-recording all 600 words. *Thank you* Yoel Droguett and @yinaquique for all your work on this 🙏🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏿 and to the testers #aphasia

Amazing to see our article in print @JournalofCSCD. This collective community response was about highlighting failed peer review process, resisting academic censorship & our condemnation of accent modification. SLP as a field has a lot to answer for upholding a racist practice.

It's been a while but...our next Special Interest Group meeting (for Australian #slpeeps) re "Cross-cultural practice and acquired communication disorders" is scheduled for Tuesday 30th May at 2pm AEST. Looking forward to some interesting discussions!

50 free copies available of this article by @KathleenMellahn @ChelseaLarkman Ali Lakhani myself & @rose_mirandaros The nature of inpatient rehabilitation for people with aphasia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: a scoping review tandfonline.com/eprint/QFMHCIY…

Our new sys review is OPEN access ✅: "Language intervention in #bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review" Led by @vishinair5 with @Grace_T_Clark @SamSiySP & @reuterskiold_c onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… #DevLangDis #slpeeps #slt

Preparing some workshops for #slpeeps about working with #bilingual people with #aphasia. What questions do you have about #BilingualAphasia? #slp2b #SLT #aphasia

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽🙋🏿‍♂️ Can you identify key markers of DLD in bilingual children? We caught up with Professor Elizabeth Peña from the University of California to discuss her IDLDRC 2022 keynote titled, Rethinking Bilingual Development and Disorder: youtu.be/CkSaVJRB6AM #devlangdis #dldconf

In this commentary, we maintain that accent modification, regardless of how it’s named or framed, cannot escape its role in a linguistic economy that capitalizes on the perceived lack of intelligibility of racialized speakers. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

Next week I've been invited by @UniRdg_CeLM to give an online talk about #BilingualAphasia research: Tue 7th June at 6pm AEST. It's free and you can register via the link at this page ⬇️ All welcome. #bilingual #aphasia #slpeeps research.reading.ac.uk/celm/supportin…

Our next Special Interest Group meeting (for Australian #slpeeps) re "Cross-cultural practice and acquired communication disorders" is scheduled for Monday 6th June at 1pm AEST. The topic will be 'code-switching'. Looking forward to some interesting discussions!

Dear world, aphasiatherapyonline.com has been translated into Urdu with thanks to the long, hard work of SP @AlishbaAliNoon & Dr Rashid Mahmood 🙏. Their work will benefit some of the 51m (1st language) + 149m (2nd language) speakers! 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Fully Urdu site: aphasiatherapyonline.com/ur

50 free eprints of this new paper from @Fran_SLP_ED, myself and @Petrea_SP exploring SLP practices during rehabilitation of acquired communication disorders when working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander adults tandfonline.com/eprint/GAHZ2IN…

New systematic review from @EF_Hunt & colleagues re use of dynamic assessment to identify language disorder in #multilingual children

Today we hosted our inaugural special interest group re 'Cross-Cultural Practice and Acquired Communication Disorders' (for Australian #slpeeps). Thank you @ChelseaLarkman & Meagan for sharing your clinical experiences & everyone involved for the stimulating discussion.