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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims. Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🧵🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. #Brava @carorowland.bsky.social et al. See that, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!

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Talking Mats @talkingmats.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Delighted to be working with @uofglasgowsldo.bsky.social - taking the resource we developed for #cancerscreening research & turning it into a practical tool for practitioners. We will work with 10 people supporting screening with people with #learningdisability . Looking forward to their feedback

Card set with cards about the cancer screening experience

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

What an absolute treat to have @maggiebeer and @jadecartwright.bsky.social talking about the culture of care and meals in aged care here at our annual @speechpathologyaustralia conference #slps #speechies

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Ace Centre @acecentreuk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Are you an AAC user/comm partner? The AAC Oral History project needs you!🫵 A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC! Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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/...

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Disabled Authors Deserve, and Demand, More

Author and activist Alice Wong reflects on disability representation in publishing.

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Please spend 10 minutes helping this honours student project

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mamaestra3.bsky.social @mamaestra3.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My 9yo, penguin-loving daughter helped with this one.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Did anyone attend the UK and Ireland Facebook group meeting last night about our #GLP #GestaltLanguageProcessing webinar for Irish Association of SLTs next Monday morning? How many were there strategising/freaking out? Over 200 registered for our talk!! There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA

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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Here is a sequence of my friend the great blue heron (who I still need to name) preparing their trout for consumption. I crossed-checked a scar on its beak near its eye with a picture from two weeks ago and it matched. This heron is not scared of humans and fishes with me standing 15-feet away.

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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A great blue heron perches on the roots of a tree fallen over into the pond at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 26/03/2025

does anyone know how to make money as a respected writer and designer who has published multiple books and had stuff shown in festivals around the world and given keynote talks and things of that nature. my mom is retiring this year with basically no savings and i want to be able to help support her

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Researchers examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to SLP undergraduate students using a high-cost, ready-made endoscopy training model versus a low-cost, 3D-printed model.

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Nasopharyngoscopic Velopharyngeal Port Function Assessment: A Randomized Comparative Trial of 3D-Printed Versus Ready-Made Models

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to spe...

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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Really lovely to be asked to share about all I’ve learnt from the literature, fab SLTs in my survey and some amazing family careers & children. 👇🏼👇🏽

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

And what about empty (not saying false, but potentially) claims about research having been conducted on an intervention - with no evidence provided for this - and people then implementing the intervention at $$$ on the basis of those claims? I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Adele’s excellent and truly disturbing Four Corners story on childcare on Monday night has sparked a NSW inquiry. In August, Four Corners will have been holding truth to power for 64 years. We are grateful for your support. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

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NSW government to launch inquiry into troubled childcare sector

A parliamentary inquiry has been called into the troubled childcare sector following a landmark ABC investigation into serious safety breaches in the industry.

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NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We are very excited to be launching a network for UK professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis forms.gle/4Z8HvhR7t1zg...

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Working with Adults with DLD network

NAPLIC is planning on starting a network for professionals who work with adults with DLD. We want to know your views so that we build them into our plans. Network meetings will be termly, online and f...

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

59 of my articles being used to train Meta’s AI … another impact metric if it means people asking AI questions get research-based answers. (59 from one search of my full name, not a comprehensive search). #WhyWeWrite

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Memorable ALFREDS. Alfred Adler, Alfred Binet, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred (A. E.) Houseman, Alfred Kinsey, Alfred Lord Douglas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Noyes, Alfred the Great, Alfred Weber, and Tropical Cyclone Alfred 2025.

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palm trees blowing in the wind in a foggy day

Alt: Palm trees blowing in a cyclone.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Marge Blanc’s “industry conspiracy” fear mongering on a daily basis … wonder why a FB group she admins was pulled down … (the one I am in) lol - could it be that it is stoking fear or did the industry do something??!!!

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Examples of the scare campaign of #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition devotees: 1. That I am in league with ABA (conspiracy) 2. That I will say GLPs do not exist (scare). Scare campaigns are a hallmark of cults (see #7), stop relying on fear www.cookman.edu/crl/cult-rel...

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Christopher Peak @clpeak.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Sold a Story has a new mini-series. We found a high-poverty school district where nearly every kid can read well. They’ve been teaching the same way for 25 years. But a new law, inspired by our reporting, put that at risk. All three podcast episodes are out now.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... #Pseudoscience harms and kills. Tragically this little boy with #ADHD was killed. Just because people with opinions and no research say something works doesn’t mean does and could mean it is avoiding scrutiny on how it doesn’t work and is harmful.

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Four arrested in death of 5-year-old boy in a hyperbaric chamber explosion

Hyperbaric chambers — which are pressurized and filled with 100 percent oxygen — are extremely combustible

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Our systematic review of #Spellers method #Spelling2Communicate #RapidPromptingMethod #RPM #Spelling #S2C has kicked off - with our first team meeting of some of our interprofessional inclusive authorship team! First step (you know this) is publication of a protocol for the review. Stay tuned!

Four squared picture showing top left Lucy Bryant wearing glasses and a black shirt, top right Bronwyn Hemsley wearing a pink linen shirt and red glasses, bottom left Ralf Schlosser with a dark coloured shirt and black glasses, and bottom right Katharine Beals with a horizontally striped shirt in front of a bookcase. This team of 4 are all smiling at the ready!

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Wow - amazingly anonymous positive positive feedback so far to our @coursebeetle.bsky.social workshop on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition Only a few people objecting to our view that clinicians should ask themselves if it is like a cult. It’s a reflective question.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So many great questions at the @coursebeetle.bsky.social event tonight on #GLP #NLA - engaged group recognising the complexity inherent in what is going on both in discourse online and the lack of research.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Looking forward to delivering a few difficult messages about #GestaltLanguageProcessing and particularly the results of our review of #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (described by Marge Blanc) tonight for the UK audience - almost 200 people registered so should be VERY interesting to hear their views.

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Oh! NICE replacement for overegging when it doesn't quite fit! #inkhornism 😎🙃

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Ethically approved Opt Out Statement Do you publish social media posts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition? From 10 Mar-10Apr we are analysing the content (no identifying details) of YouTube & Insta posts. No posts (images, vids) are collected, stored or included in reports.

At UTS we are currently investigating the content of public YouTube and Instagram posts relating to #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (GLP/NLA) with ethical approval ETH24-10332. The research is being conducted from 10 Mar to 10 April in 2025. We aim to understand more about the information that viewers obtain from watching YouTube or Insta posts about GLP/NLA. We are not collecting data on your name or any identifying information and are not downloading or storing the images or photos. No images or photos will be used in reporting on the results in conference presentations or journal articles, and no individual data will be reported apart from de-identified excerpts of quotes. If you wish to opt out and not have your YouTube or Insta posts included in the research please email us on Bronwyn.Hemsley@uts.edu.au No contact details about you will be retained and if any of your posts are already collected they will be removed permanently from the data. This data collection period is from 10 March to 10 April in 2025 (1 month). I will post a similar notice when the data collection period is completed.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Someone is actually playing the bagpipes in my little sleepy suburb (usually sounds of sport, cars, and birds).

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

youtube.com/playlist?lis... @katharinebeals.bsky.social Restraint. Restrictive practice. High profile SLPs are supporting #Spellers method. Marge Blanc text promotes it. Alison Battye text promotes it. Genuine Q - why do #GLP #NLA writers promote #FC and #S2C? - Is it as NLA is ineffective?

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Case Studies - YouTube

We are excited to launch our first C4A Academy Case Study with Leon, a 6-year-old nonspeaker with a bundle of energy. You will see how he progressed from not...

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/g... in which Ali Battye re-hashes the false story of there being longitudinal research and presents factually incorrect information about the criteria for our systematic review. Disinfo = they have nothing better to present in support of #GestaltLanguageProcessing

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s funny how people who believe in telepathy suddenly want to go all evidence-informed to find out everything Ky Dickens has to say and check out what that means for telepathy (both, as FC entwines them in the Telepathy Tapes) before criticising it on the basis of decades of evidence against FC.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com you can search essentially every marketplace in one go so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)

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BookFinder.com: New & Used Books, Rare Books, Textbooks

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Why do the most passionate teachers of #GestaltLanguageProcessing keep simply reciting the teachings of the leader (Blanc) - if they have positive clinical stories of their own about language progress why don’t they write up the data in case reports with independent measures? Not even research.

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