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Professor Leanne Togher

@leannetogher.bsky.social
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Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, #SLP SLT #braininjury #aphasia #NHMRC Investigator Fellow #ABI Communication Lab Director, Director @speechbite, Chair Brain Injury Australia, Vice Chair IBIA

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Nicholas Behn @nicholasbehn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
At the #CCDSymp2025 I presented on communication partner training, dating & creating collaborations. So many amazing talks, posters and opportunities for networking with therapists @leannetogher.bsky.social reminding us of the words of the late Audrey Holland & stories of Mark Ylvisaker
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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The Peer Effect Is “Utterly Profound”: A Social-ABI-lity Pilot Study of a Multicomponent, Peer-Moderated Social Media Skills Intervention for People With Acquired Brain Injury
Purpose: People who have an acquired brain injury (ABI) experience challenges in using social media. However, rehabilitation clinicians report fe...
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Nicholas Behn @nicholasbehn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
@carlamagdalani.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @katerinahilari.bsky.social @driankellar.bsky.social @leannetogher.bsky.social
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speechbite.bsky.social @speechbite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The most clicked-on article from the August @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter was a clinical practice guideline from Germany on interventions for children with #dld. speechbite.com/article/73438/ It's open access! #SLPeeps #SLP2B #SLT #bskySPEECHIES
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Clinical practice guideline: Interventions for Developmental Language Delay and Disorders - speechBITE
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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
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Social Communication Implementable and Applicable Lens: A Framework for Addressing Assessment of Social Communication
Purpose: Keegan, Hoepner, et al. (2023) developed a framework for social, cognitive-communication assessment, which was intended to make social c...
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Did you know that our #USA colleagues have adapted our #TBIConneCT #telehealth #communication training program for partners of ppl with #TBI for the North American context? @ajslps.bsky.social @uweauclaire.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @abicommlab.bsky.social pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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North American Pilot of TBIconneCT: A Social Communication Intervention via Telehealth for Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Conversation Partners
Purpose: The purpose of this pilot investigation was to identify formative feedback to guide the development of a North American version of the T...
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Really looking forward to meeting with my colleagues in the #UK to discuss and learn and find out about latest advances in #CCD. The program looks excellent. Thanks for the kind invitation to speak at this meeting 🙏🙏🙏 @sydney.edu.au @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social @warcusyd.bsky.social
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
📣 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...
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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
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Kate Smith @ksmithaus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
📣 Calling on #SLPs 👈 We want to hear from #SLPs #SLTs about what you want from digital evidence tools to help you find research evidence easily. You're invited to participate in focus groups or an interview, register your interest here bit.ly/3D4QI2s #bskySPEECHIES @leannetogher.bsky.social
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Nicholas Behn @nicholasbehn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social is hosting a FREE hybrid impact event for researchers & clinicians to learn ab exciting new developments in adults & paediatrics. 👉 SAVE THE DATE - 20th June 2025! Final programme to be shared soon but sign-up early: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Implementing Research Into Clinical Practice | City St George's, University of London
The Centre for Language and Communication Science Research at City St George's, University of London is excited to showcase their latest research.
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
📣 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...
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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The Social Brain Toolkit - ABI Communication Lab
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Andrew Bateman @andrewbateman.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
an interesting event happening at Health Wellbeing Care Hub
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
CONGRATULATIONS to all of the #DigitalHealthWeek2025 prize winners 🙌🙌🙌 Very well deserved, I loved hearing about your research & interacting with everyone this week!!!!
#DigitalHealthWeek2025 Day 1 prize winners: Jing Hern Kevin Poh & Carine Chan#DigitalHealthWeek2025 Day 2 prize winners: David Bui, Edwina Lamborn, & Rik Dawson#DigitalHealthWeek2025 Day 3 prize winners: Daniel Rogers, Hayley Thomson, & Alice Graham#DigitalHealthWeek2025 ePoster prize winners: Poorna Fernando, Josielli Comachio, & Asara Senaratne
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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Learn more about a feasible method for rating conversations involving people with brain injury in under 30 min using the Adapted Kagan Scales. on.asha.org/3EjlSDi @sigperspectives.bsky.social
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Feasibility and Reliability of the Adapted Kagan Scales for Rating Conversations for People With Acquired Brain Injury: A Multiphase Iterative Mixed-Methods Design
Purpose: Rating the quality of conversations can assess communication skills in both people with acquired brain injury and their communication pa...
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
There's a new #DigitalHealthWeek2025 prize this year 🙌 @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social has just announced the SPARK prize to support EMCR attendees collaborate with another researcher they meet for the first time as part of #DigitalHealthWeek2025 More info: digitalhealthweek.com.au/spark/
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here is the order of events for the wonderful @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social It’s hybrid so you can attend the live stream too. I’m looking forward to attending the @warcusyd.bsky.social hosted digital Health week event in person at Westmead on Wednesday! digitalhealthweek.com.au/program
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Listening to Prof @carolynday make opening remarks at the Digital Health Week 2025 which is in person @sydneyuni.bsky.social AND being live-streamed too. Great to hear about the breadth of the Faculty of Medicine and Health @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social digitalhealthweek.com.au
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Nicholas Behn @nicholasbehn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Good morning from The University of Sydney - took the long way to walk to work this morning - always something new and inspiring to see on this beautiful campus 😊@sydneyuni.bsky.social @abicommlab.bsky.social
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Our telepsychiatry service for people with severe traumatic brain injury is now taking referrals from anyone in NSW thanks to funding from NSW Ministry of Health. See link for referral process @sydneyuni.bsky.social braininjurypsychiatry.com.au/referral-pro...
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Brain Injury Psychiatry | Referral Process for Patients
Know of someone who has a severe traumatic brain injury and might need support with mental wellbeing? See our patients referral program.
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Not long now until our amazing IBIA conference in Montreal Canada. The program has something for anyone working in the field of #BrainInjury #SocialCognition #CCD #ABI #TBI #STROKE #DisordersOfConsciousness #Rehabilitation. Come and join us!! braininjurycongress.org
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Come and join our next IBIA webinar: Advancing Communication Partner Training following Brain Injury: Past, Present, and Future by @petraavramovic.bsky.social Feb 6, 2023, 3 PM EST/Feb 7, 2025, 7 AM AEDT Social Cognition, Communication and Affect SIG www.internationalbrain.org/meetings-and...
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Webinar Series & CME Credits - International Brain Injury Association
The International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) is dedicated to the development and support of multidisciplinary medical and clinical professionals, advocates, policy makers, consumers and others wh...
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Mark Holloway @markhollowayhf.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
You (and your colleagues) have written a very interesting and useful article Tobias, and it has arrived with PERFECT timing for me as I am looking at this very subject. I appreciate your efforts and am grateful.
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hurray!!!! Just got a paper acceptance email (always a reason to celebrate!) #AcceptanceCake time @leannetogher.bsky.social @petraavramovic.bsky.social @sophiebrassel.bsky.social @kyliesouthwell.bsky.social 🙌🙌🙌
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Brain and Mind Centre @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🏆Congrats to the 2025 Research Excellence and Inclusion Prize winners: Dr Eleanor Drummond, PhD (Brown Prize) Dr Jacqui Wesson (Thompson Prize) #LeadershipforGood @sydneyuni.bsky.social
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Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC) @warcusyd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
📌 Full-Time 12-month opportunity for a dynamic & organised Research Administration Assistant 📌 Exciting Opportunity to assist with Research for the clinical trials 📌 Base Salary $86,511 + 17% superannuation 📍 Westmead, Sydney NSW #hiring www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40... www.seek.com.au/job/80577243
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Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC) @warcusyd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congratulations to graduates 🎓 and supervisors @clarachow.bsky.social @lilianalaranjo.bsky.social @ritutri.bsky.social @sydneyuni.bsky.social
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Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC) @warcusyd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are so pleased to welcome Patrick to the @warcusyd.bsky.social Team! @sydneyuni.bsky.social
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Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC) @warcusyd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Extremely proud to have this article listed among such high-quality research in the European Heart Journal 's TOP Cited Articles for 2023! Well done to our researchers @clarachow.bsky.social , @lilianalaranjo.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehjqcco/arti... www.escardio.org/Journals/ESC...
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Some familiar 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES' & others' names! @nicholasbehn.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @leannetogher.bsky.social @katerinahilari.bsky.social @rachaelrieger.bsky.social @markhollowayhf.bsky.social #TANGO @tango-abi.bsky.social @carlamagdalani.bsky.social WHO ELSE is 🦋here, I wonder! 🧠
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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Welcome to blue sky @elisebogart.bsky.social
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John E Pierce @jepierce.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Reminder to let your Australian 🇦🇺 clients with #aphasia of less than 1 year know about our therapy trial. All 30 hours of treatment and assessments are online. You can hit print on this page to create an aphasia friendly flier: mmat.rehab
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/12/2024
Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard
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Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard
Toy company says it hopes move will help everyone ‘embrace diversity, value inclusivity and remove stigma’ Lego is introducing several characters who wear sunflower lanyards to its brick universe for the first time to raise awareness of a badge worn to…
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Very cool plants next to Anderson Stuart on a humid moody afternoon @sydneyuni.bsky.social
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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
What Kevin Wheldall learned from 50yrs of research: ✔︎ find your tribe; ✔︎ be prepared to be unpopular; ✔︎ learn from one another; ✔︎ be patient, your time will come; and ✔︎ keep on keeping on; persistence is key to making a difference. 🆓🔓https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2024.2419892
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AJLD EMINENT RESEARCHER AWARD WINNER 2023: EMERITUS PROFESSOR KEVIN WHELDALL AM Swansong: five decades of research on language, behaviour and reading difficulties
In this paper, Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM, who received the Eminent Researcher Award of this journal in 2023, describes his research over the past five decades, together with his wife and...
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hey @nicholasbehn.bsky.social - we were just talking about value being the difference between survival & thriving!
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Mark Holloway @markhollowayhf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As we are still all a bit new here, a blast from the past, an open access article about cognitive communication disorders following brain injury. The most viewed article of all time in Brain Injury.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Introducing the model of cognitive-communication competence: A model to guide evidence-based communication interventions after brain injury
Primary objective: Communication impairments associated with acquired brain injury (ABI) are devastating in their impact on family, community, social, academic, and vocational participation. Despit...
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We are looking for a project manager to assist with the work of our fabulous @abicommlab.bsky.social team! It’s a great opportunity to work with a dynamic team which is leading the world in digital health and technology for #ABI DM if you’re interested. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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ABI Comm Lab Clinical Research Officer
Full time role until 2027 based in Susan Wakil Health Building Dynamic opportunity within the ABI Communication Lab team Base Salary $99,455 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The Acquired Bra...
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 26/11/2024
If you aren’t sure how to make (or didn’t know about making) your posts here on @bsky.app work for disabled folks, here’s A Guide to Basic Accessibility on Social Media with Easy, Actionable Ways to Make Your Content More Inclusive. From Access Living: www.accessliving.org/newsroom/gui...
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Guide: Basic Accessibility on Social Media - Access Living
Easy, Actionable Ways to Make Your Content More Inclusive Social media tools and channels change fast (RIP Vine), which means that guides on how to use their various features can […]
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Lovely to connect with you also Caroline! I work with @petraavramovic.bsky.social in the @abicommlab.bsky.social with @leannetogher.bsky.social @sophiebrassel.bsky.social @kyliesouthwell.bsky.social & others - more info on Social Brain Toolkit here abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/social-brain...
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The Social Brain Toolkit - ABI Communication Lab
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John E Pierce @jepierce.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Register to hear 45 minutes of wisdom from the fantastic aphasia trialist, Caterina Breitenstein - *tomorrow* Wednesday 27th November 👂📝 (Alternatively, catch up on our youtube channel) t.co/ShMY0YBstj #aphasia
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Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) @lissbee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just in the @speechbite.bsky.social board meeting atm & discussing our expansion into Insta & BSky! Am still loving the positive atmosphere that migration to different platforms is prompting 🙌
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speechbite.bsky.social @speechbite.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
Watch this space (and our new instagram (@speechbite) for more @speechbite.bsky.social updates 📣 p.s. our October newsletter was released earlier this week! bit.ly/3YGewkX #bskySPEECHIES #speechBITE
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speechBITE newsletter October 2024 | Campaign Monitor
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speechbite.bsky.social @speechbite.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The most clicked-on article from the October @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter was a systematic review looking at speech and language therapy for primary progressive aphasia #PPA and primary progressive apraxia of speech #PPAOS bit.ly/4fnr8U9 It's open access! #SLPeeps #SLP2B #SLT #bskySPEECHIES
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Behavioral Treatment for Speech and Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia and Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech: A Systematic Review - speechBITE
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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We are looking for a project manager to assist with the work of our fabulous @abicommlab.bsky.social team! It’s a great opportunity to work with a dynamic team which is leading the world in digital health and technology for #ABI DM if you’re interested. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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ABI Comm Lab Clinical Research Officer
Full time role until 2027 based in Susan Wakil Health Building Dynamic opportunity within the ABI Communication Lab team Base Salary $99,455 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The Acquired Bra...
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Nicholas Behn @nicholasbehn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
📢 Excited to announce the 4th CCD Symposium to be in Coventry, UK on the 12th & 13th June 2025. Invited keynote is Prof Jacinta Douglas Call for abstracts is open now & will close 26th January 2025. Submit your clinical or research work today! www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...
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4th CCD Symposium Call for Abstracts 2025
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