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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Another random question - are there any photographs existing of the pioneer speech pathologist Elizabeth (Betty) Usher? She’s a legendary figure in our profession’s history but I’ve only ever seen the one photograph of her. It would be great to have something to share with students before IWD2026…

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Putting this out to the universe…. Does anyone know of an app or program that successfully uses the Pomodoro technique?

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Bluesky has just asked me to verify my age through a face scan. The circle whirled with a message saying”estimating age”. I sort of wish it had taken at least a full circle to think about it.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This is incredibly important research and the findings should influence educational policy makers’ decisions in the pedagogy and learning outcomes for FLO classes.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In South Australian English, the word “dancing” doesn’t rhyme with “romancing”. This is not a problem ordinarily but it does mean that I can never belt out The Nolans’ hit “I’m in the mood for dancing” at a karaoke bar.

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Flinders University @flindersuniversity.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Many mobile apps claiming to support early reading skills in children fail to deliver actual educational benefit, with positive app store reviews seemingly driven by aesthetics and functionality, a new Flinders analysis has found. Read more 🔗 bit.ly/3KkS7pc

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I have a strong suspicion my bathroom scales are not doing Evidence Based Practice.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Ok. I’ve done this 52 times now and it doesn’t get any easier. Why is OCTOber the tenth month? I feel that my generation let the world down on climate change and ignoring an opportunity to sort out the months of the year to give them some semantic dignity.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

At what point did we suddenly get bombarded with requests to review products we buy online? I’ve just been sent a third reminder to “review” a polo shirt I bought a month ago. So tempted to write “After six days it sprung to life and ate several cats in the neighbourhood”.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

They say as you get older, the more fixed in your mindset you become. But this morning I woke up and realised that “What do I have to do?” is an even better Kylie song than “Better the Devil you know”. Admittedly both are REALLY bad pieces of mental health advice.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I’m watching the 2025 Alien series. Call me old school, but I do feel that if we could just call Sigourney Weaver in, she could dust all of this off by around the 53 minute mark.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

While I generally love anything Italian, the inventor of the Venetian blinds is my arch nemesis. I have never lowered Venetian blinds in less than 15 minutes, and by the end I resemble Animal from the Muppets.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I have a genuine mistrust of anyone who would choose to write with a ballpoint pen over a felt tip pen.

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Eurgh, there was a "do I need to use the mic?" guy. Everyone said it was fine, but I took too long to process the question (bc that's harder for me without the mic) so didn't have a chance to object before he launched into the talk. Seriously folks, just always use the mic. #Metascience2025

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Nichola Shelton @nichola-slp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Always great to see work focused on adolescents. This paper looks at SLPs’ approach to communication assessment of adolescents who have mental health concerns. #SLPeeps

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Despite talking to my students about clinician led and standardised assessments, the terminology of “formal” and “informal” assessments comes back into their submissions. It’s interwoven into both speech pathology and teaching discourse. Is it as prevalent in other professions?

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Delighted that from March 2026 children with #ssd (including #CAS) #stuttering or #cleft will get an extended Australian Medicare benefit - an additional (?) 20 sessions and 8 assessment sessions. Not enough by a long shot but an excellent start. Well done Speech Pathology Australia!

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It’s almost been forty years now and Koo Dé Tah’s “Too Young for Promises” is still stuck in my head. Oh the irony.

The 7inch cover for Too Young for Promises, by Koo Dé Tah. A woman with striking hair and 80s makeup looks to the left of the cover with an emotionless expression.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Every university cohort should have cake on entry. Happy 50th cohort of speech pathology @flindersuniversity.bsky.social !

23 cupcakes in a box, labelled “50 years of speech pathology”

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Flinders University @flindersuniversity.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hello 👋 Welcome to the official Flinders University account. Follow along for the latest news, research and updates about Flinders University! 🗞️ news.flinders.edu.au

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

When the US leaves the World Health Organization, I hope that they immediately rebrand as the “World Health Organisation”. Having the z-spelling up on WHO hand washing guidelines drove me crazy during the pandemic. The world may end, but it will leave with a more aesthetic spelling.

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My gripe, if I have one, is 'uni didn't teach us X' which should be (a) I don't remember learning this and (b) I learnt how to acquire this area of practice

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Yes and knowing our own scope of practice is both narrower and wider than when we graduated is key to ethical practice

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It has only just occurred to me that during the pandemic I could have used the word “sequestered” much more than I did.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I know it’s a very small problem, but I really needed a purple drawing pin and I have just spent the past half hour throwing things out of my desk drawers in the hunt for one, with all the fury of Daenerys Targaryen searching for her lost dragons.

Daenerys Targaryen with a very shouty face on screaming “where are my dragons?”

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Georgina Smith @smithge.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Without firm clear announcements on policy we can't speculate - but the message is getting clearer. A rare and often severe speech-sound disorder that invariably impacts multiple domains of a child's development will not be funded by NDIS.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Does anyone else think that perhaps the reason why Midsomer has a lot of odd murders happening is due to evil Joyce Barnaby? It would explain all these very eclectic interests she suddenly develops and drops the next episode. I mean, she was bell ringing, war reenacting, gravestone etching…

A photo of the actor Jane Wymark, who played Joyce Barnaby in the somewhat puzzling detective series Midsomer Murders. She is wearing a jacket that can only have come from Hell, possibly as a means to make people avoid looking at her so that she can get away with yet another murder.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This article kicks off 2025 with an absolute bang. This is quite the page turner, with significant clinical implications for speech pathologists working with preschool children with speech sound disorder. Make sure you future proof with recommendations to check on PA and language ability over time.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

And we’ve reached the point of Christmas where we’ve eaten but no one has left yet and we are all wondering if we’re actually characters in a Pinter play …

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I couldn’t agree with you more. You could do this, perhaps because your practice was not tied to a deep belief system and emotional investment such as “love” and “joy”. Nowadays the simpler messaging carries more weight than the detail. But our therapy is complex, not simplistic.

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Lucy Bryant @lucyebryant.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It can be hard to find the time to read a systematic review research paper, so why not listen instead. Our podcast on a systematic review of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NLA out now, and full paper coming soon

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Is it just me, or when people say cyber Monday, do we picture this?

A cyberman holding a brown shopping bag with its left hand

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Now that I’m working at a university, I’m surprised by the inordinate amount of tea that we seem to go through, as opposed to coffee. On the plus side though, I seem to be able to use the “inordinate” without anyone blinking.

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

To do this, we need to both lead and follow them. I think lifelong curiosity is a key academic requirement - what happens if we give it a go…

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I drive past this every day on the way to work. One day I will stop outside and have a milkshake. If only to get the song out of my head.

A gym on the corner of the street. The signage reads “The Yard Gym”

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Dr. Allyson Schaff (she/her/hers) @langforlearning.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What a great idea! One of my clinical students uses AI to create complex sentences for her client with DLD. I asked Copilot to create a nonfiction rdg passage on a 4th grade level using multiple r-controlled words and it was pretty spot on. It’s a great way for us to work at the top of our license.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

One of the great things about AI is that we can be really specific about targets. Back when I graduated, I would have had to draw “Godzilla is sweeping” or “Dracula is jumping on the bed”

6 laminated pictures depicting Godzilla, Dracula, or King Kong either sweeping or jumping on a bed, arranged on a work desk.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I really want to like Jane Eyre, but I think we probably wouldn’t get along in real life.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

There are times when I worry for the mental health of Postman Pat and Bob the Builder when they retire. I feel their entire raison d’être is their jobs. Maybe men should start putting more value in their relationships with other people.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Yesterday I was watching a 90s TV programme and one of the characters said “are we copacetic?” and now all I can do is try to work out whether anyone says that word any more. I havevowed to say it every day for 2 weeks. It might be Movember for some, but it’s Copacetic-ober as far as I’m concerned.

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srvach.bsky.social @srvach.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

The author makes several important points. Her experience when raising the needs of her brothers was horrific. My daughter receives services from lovely people but they are not well targeted.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

I mean, it was just a matter of time before I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Women’s Forum, but I didn’t expect to be hailed as such an influential woman so early into my academic career.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

At the supermarket. They’re playing Donna Summer “This time I know it’s for real”. If just one person looks like they’re about to dance, I am bringing on some flash mob realness.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Ok, so it’s coming into Spring here. This will be my 51st one of these, and I genuinely, genuinely, still have no idea what the point of a picnic is.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

I’ve just finished up supervising a batch of speech pathology students on their second placement. As a thank you, they gave me a customised clipboard celebrating all the times they spelt my surname in an inventive manner.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

It occurs to me that I’ve never owned a paperweight. I just don’t understand the purpose of them. Who has an office desk in a windy position?

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I keep failing these stupid “prove you’re not a robot” tests. I feel I’d do better if I was asked not to identify traffic lights but pictures of Duran Duran vs Spandau ballet.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I’m marking papers. The sheer amount of “z” spellings is killing me inside. I don’t run off to America, point at Beyoncé’s husband and shout “hi mister Jay-Zed”, so the least I expect in return is for the next generation to “recognise” and “analyse” things correctly.

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Tim Kittel @tim-kittel.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Sometimes I like to take a USB stick out of my laptop without ejecting it first. I feel that Billy Idol has a lot to answer for for filling my head with these rebellious ideas in the 80s.

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