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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#GuineaPigDeathSquad4Life I certainly wasn’t the primary instigator of our silver medal - I only knew the answers to questions about Assistive Technology and The Beatles, as I recall… 😬 T’was your good self who knew the atomic number of gold…!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We had the pleasure of launching this report in @ukparliament.parliament.uk today, with an audience of politicians, policy organisations and the #AssistiveTech community. Please do read and share with your networks!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Through a combination of literature review and structured expert enquiry, we explore how training for #AssistiveTech is currently provided, where the gaps and barriers are, and what skills are needed by professionals #Teacher #SENCO #SLT, #OT #AT, #TA, #ICT at various career stages

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Excited to share our team's new report from @dundee.ac.uk, funded by DfE UK: "Developing a competency framework for effective assistive technology training" www.gov.uk/government/p... The report explores skills & knowledge of staff in special schools and colleges to support digital #AssistiveTech

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Developing a competency framework for effective assistive technology training

Examines the skills and knowledge needed by staff in special schools and colleges to use digital assistive technology effectively.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

[5/5] Variability in children’s performance on both presentations underlines the risk of assuming fixation or gaze switching skills to be present, and the importance of assessing gaze behaviours in individual children - particularly those expected to use them for communication or computer control.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

[4/5] Eye tracking may be better at recording fixations in children with strabismus, where object-based paradigms may offer more flexible administration for clinicians.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

[3/5] Eye tracking may present an “entry barrier” for some children in terms of its accuracy and calibration requirements, but object presentation carries with it the risk of over-interpreting children as having fixated.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

[2/5] Our study compared the use of an eye tracking computer with expert clinician observations of children's fixation and gaze switching. Whilst it is not possible to say which one is better at producing the "correct" result, the differences are interesting and are discussed in this paper.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

[1/5] Happy to share our latest #eyegaze #eyetracking research paper, in which we compare computer and object-based approaches to observing fixation and gaze switching in children with #cerebralpalsy. It's #openaccess from @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social here: www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14...

A banner for a paper from the Journal of Clinical Medicine. The paper title is "Assessment of Gaze Fixations and Shifts in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Comparison of Computer- and Object-Based Approaches" and the authors' names (Tom Griffiths; Michael T. Clarke; John Swettenham) are displayed below this, with the journal volume (14), issue number (7) and article number (2326). A QR code to link to the article is in the top right. All are set against a green and white background.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Fun Fact! Contrary to popular belief, unicorns contain only trace amounts of sawdust. In fact, one would have to consume over 6,000 unicorns to ingest the Recommended Daily Sawdust Quota (RDSQ) for the average adult!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Joseph M. Butter, of course, did go on to occupy high political office as a result of his military exploits. A fact still commemorated on supermarket shelves to this day…

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I don't know who would be crazy enough to buy such an obvious piece of walking, talking, sandwich-making spyware... but I do admire the chutzpah of the "Research" page on their website, which I wish I could get away with...

An image of a person in a white coat wearing safety goggles, concentrating on something (unseen) on the desk in front of them. The words "We are currently researching, page will be available soon" is overlaid in white text.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Choose 10 music books that have influenced you, changed your life or blown your mind. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky 💙📚 #MusicSky #MusicBooks #Books #BookChallenge 2/10

The cover of the book "Mystery Train" by Greil Marcus. A grainy, black and white outline image of a guitar headstock on which the title and author's name are written. The neck of the guitar is styled as a railway track.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The front cover of "One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time" by Craig Brown. The four Beatles are pictured on the cover, smiling, with Paul playing a tambourine and George playing a toy trumpet. The title is in large stylised pink and yellow text appearing to shoot in from both sides of the cover. The author's name is at the bottom.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Really enjoyed doing the #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge these past few weeks. Great way to reflect on books that have influenced me. So many to choose from and I didn't include any music books or bios, a particular favourite genre of mine... so... (drumroll 🥁)

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT). #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge 20/20

The cover of the book "Testing Treatments: Better Research for Better Healthcare" by Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou. The title is at the top, authors' names at the bottom and the image is a stylised set of scales (a rectangle balanced on a triangle) with a small yellow square on the left side and a large green one on the right. The scales are balanced.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The front cover of "Nineteen eighty-four" by George Orwell. The title and author's name are at the top and the main image resembles a tunnel, rendered in a lurid bright orange with a black and white close up of an eye at the end of it.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A fantastic opportunity for researchers in #aphasia, #speechtherapy, #HCI and related disciplines - come and share your research as part of an engaging programme at #BASConf25 in the fine city of #Dundee this summer!

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Really useful session today with @cos.io explaining the full #OSF workflow from searching and discovery through #research design, data archiving, analysis and (pre-)publishing. A really helpful refresher or intro for first time dabblers in #OpenScience - sign up at link below (sessions 4pm UK time)

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The front cover of the comic book "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The cover is bright yellow with a black ellipse and a vivid splatter of red blood dripping down the centre. The title is vertically presented on the left side of the cover.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It is #SuperbowlLIX tonight. I know basically nothing about #NFL but I do recognise an opportunity to rewatch the single greatest 12 minutes of entertainment in the history of the world. #Prince 💜 youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?...

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Prince - Super Bowl XLI 🏈 | Halftime Show 2007 FULL SHOW HD

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The cover of the book "Mayflies" by Andrew O'Hagan. The title and author's name are overlaid on a black and white image of three young men looking happy, with arms around each other, seemingly at a concert or sporting event.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The cover of the book "Them - Adventures with Extremists" by Jon Ronson. A purple cover with green lines across it, creating slits through which eyes appear to be peeking.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thoroughly dispiriting - 4/5 @theguardian.com #rugby writers have #Wales finishing last in this year's #6Nations and it's pretty hard to offer a decent argument against this. Sad state. Pob lwc in Paris tonight lads, but it's going to take a hell of shift... 🏉 www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

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Six Nations 2025 predictions: our writers on who will win and why

France’s Louis Bielle-Biarre may be widely tipped for the tournament’s scene stealer but there are plenty of other themes to light up this year’s edition

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The cover of the book "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" by Melanie Mitchell. Against a turquoise background is the title and author name at the top and a grid of coloured squares, each with a number. The squares cohere to look like a highly pixelated face of a person with long brown hair.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"Toto, I don't think we're in Leeds any more..." (Have fun - sure it'll be an amazing experience!)

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The cover of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend. The cover shows a coloured sketch of a mirror on which the title and author's name have been superimposed. In front of the mirror is a glass containing a Noddy toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste to the left and a straight razor and shaving soap brush to the right.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The cover of the book "Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Developmental Issues" edited by Stephen von Tetzchner and Nicola Grove. The cover is white with just the title at the bottom with a thick black line underneath and the editors' names at the top.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A PSA that I really wish was unnecessary: Do not put personal or private data into *ANY* #genAI #AI system or #chatbot, irrespective of who owns it, because anything uploaded may be taken by said owners and used for training data (and a great many other things) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek

Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It's basic stuff we teach our students - don't say "many authors agree that...", "there is substantial evidence that..." or "there are hundreds of articles proving..." if you're not going to produce / cite this "vast number" of sources.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The cover of the book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan. The author's name is at the top, the title below it in an orange band, and the subtitle against a black background in the lower third. A picture of a candle flame in an orange circle is in the centre.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I do not remember this but I have just Googled it (without the aid of crappy AI summaries) and now I fear I may not sleep for the rest of the week...! 🌳

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Really hoping it isn’t related to the recent, uncritical exposure it’s received on a certain podcast… hard to know without understanding Google’s algorithm, but that is certainly one recent thing that could have “moved the needle”…?

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The cover of the fifth edition of the book "Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice" by Albert M. Cook, Jan Miller Polgar and Pedro Encarnacao. A purple background has four pictures of people with disabilities using technology: two people looking at a smartphone, a person seated in a wheelchair, a person crossing the road using a long cane and a child in a wheelchair looking at a communication aid.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

You may already know this, but you can tweak your accessibility settings to require alt text to be in place before posting, which I find to be a helpful method of jemmying 😊 bsky.app/profile/rnib...

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Agreed - and for all those interested in getting rid of it, our colleague @haggistamer.bsky.social posted some useful instructions a few weeks back... bsky.app/profile/hagg...

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lest we forget Old Man Willow from Lord of the Rings: so many childhood nightmares 😳 "the hearts of the trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers"

A drawing of a Willow tree by JRR Tolkien. It is labelled (bottom-right) Old Man Willow in reference to the malign tree which attempts to crush the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings.

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I'm afraid it gets worse... there is a "controversy" section but it's relegated to two bullets at the bottom and you have to expand the section to find it...

A screenshot of a Google search with the search bar reading "what is facilitated communication" and the Al Overview reading "Facilitated communication (FC) is a technique that helps people with
communication impairments express themselves. It involves a person
pointing to letters, pictures, or objects, or typing on a keyboard, with the help of a facilitator." A subsequent subheading reads "How it works" before two bullet points reading "The facilitator may physically support the person's hand, wrist, elbow, or shoulder" and "The facilitator may also hold up an alphabet chart and encourage the person to touch letters." At this point the text fades out to indicate that the user must expand the section to read more. Two links on the right under the heading "Learn more" lead to a Wikipedia article and a page from "Raising Children Network".

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"An AI Overview is not available for this search" 🤨

A Google search bar containing the query "what are the problems with facilitated communication". The top response reads "An Al Overview is not available for this search"

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is deeply problematic from @googlesearch.bsky.social AI Summary. Positioning #facilitatedcommunication on a par with other #AAC #AugComm approaches is factually wrong. Searched: "medicare aac". Reported. @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social @fcisnotscience.bsky.social

A screengrab of an AI summary from a Google search page. The header reads "What is AAC?" and the body text reads "AAC is a way for people with disabilities to communicate. There are several types of AAC, including non-tech, aided low-tech, and aided high-tech. Facilitated communication (FC) is an AAC approach that uses writing, typing, gesturing, or pointing to help people express themselves." Below this is a statement reading "Generative Al is experimental." to the right is a link to "Autism Parenting Magazine" with the link text "Facilitated Communication for Children with Autism" and a short description "Facilitated communication (FC), is anaugmentative and alternative communicati..."
Autism Parenting Magazine

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Dr Tom Griffiths @tg-at.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Despite the dreadful weather it’s impossible not to love the #Southbank Centre and its wonderful public art and sculpture… #london @southbanklondon.bsky.social