Check out previous “brain injury projects” with Dr Nicholas Behn showcased on YouTube, Summer Foundation training videos, & many more #ASSBI2024

We have enjoyed hosting Bonita Sham at our ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 Sydney Health University of Sydney who was awarded a prestigious scholarship & chose to spend her time with our team. We are translating TBIConneCT partner training & virtual reality tasks Anthony Kong The University of Hong Kong web.edu.hku.hk/news/education…

Round table options, Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Hawaii. Looking forward to discussing #CCD models, our Social Brain Toolkit & communication partner training & social media training for ABI ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) Sophie Brassel Rachael Rietdijk Sydney Health #CAC2024

Remembering Professor Audrey Holland at the inaugural memorial lecture dedicated to her extraordinary legacy today at #CAC2024. Such a force in aphasia rehabilitation & very much missed ! ☺️. ⁦ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬⁩ ⁦Carnegie Mellon University⁩ ⁦Arizona⁩ aphasiacre⁩ #aphasia

Had a LOVELY time presenting our #CAC2024 round table discussion alongside Professor Leanne Togher & Sophie Brassel - all about the theory behind the Social Brain Toolkit (SBT) & in particular interact-ABI-lity - read more about the SBT here: abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/social-brain-t… ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 Sydney Health

Our NHMRC⁩ Ideas Communication Connect Project presented at the #cac2024 conference by ⁦⁦⁦Professor Miranda Rose⁩ in #Hawaii - very proud to be a member of this illustrious team!! ⁦University of Sydney⁩ ⁦Sydney Health⁩ ⁦ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬⁩ ⁦John E Pierce⁩

Last few days were great to have Dr Petra Avramovic visit me City Language & Communication Science City Aphasia Lab School of Health & Medical (Clerkenwell) to discuss brain injury, communication partner training & explore opportunities for international collaborations (& do some sightseeing) ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 thank you🙏 for the visit!!!

Thank you Dr Nicholas Behn for hosting me Anna! So much amazing research City Language & Communication Science in aphasia and cog comm after #ABI, with a focus on co-design and technology! Looking forward to future collaborations and implementing new #ABI comm treatments University of Sydney SPEECH Clinic.

The fabulous Ky Southwell from our ABI Communication Lab drew some pictures and put together a 1min video of her PhD research topic for the University of Sydney Sydney Health Visualise Your Thesis competition 🙌🙌🙌 Check it out here: youtu.be/byqJ0d3O4Q8?si… VOTING LINK: sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7U…

We’re busy planning our BrainInjuryAustralia conference workshop this morning! The ABI Communication Lab team in the room: Professor Leanne Togher Elise Bogart Rachael Rietdijk Sophie Brassel Dr Petra Avramovic 🙌🙌🙌 Come & join us in Adelaide in Sept! Register here: braininjuryconference.com.au/register/

Proud of Erica Zhang for this paper reporting her excellent Hons1 project from Sydney Health University of Sydney. Congrats to Elise Bogart for supervising. 🙏Davida Fromm and Brian MacWhinney from Talkbank Carnegie Mellon University for hosting #TBIBank ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 & Dr Jo Steel’s #TBI expertise

So pleased to see Erica Zhang’s excellent research out now -analysing important event stories from people with #TBI - great working with the ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 team on this- Elise Bogart Professor Leanne Togher & Davida Fromm & Brian MacWhinney

Our @ABIcommlab team is collaborating with the University of Hong Kong to adapt TBIconneCT. Speech pathologists in Hong Kong working with adults with brain injury are invited to participate in a research study to support this work - see the poster below for further information.

Interested in doing a PhD University of Sydney to improve functional and social independence of ppl with #dementia in #agedcare? Our@NHMRC funded team is accepting applications now for this wonderful scholarship opportunity 🎓 sydney.edu.au/scholarships/c… Yun-Hee Jeon ABI Communication Lab Sydney Health

One of the most privileged positions as an academic is to be able support and nurture the new and upcoming researchers of the future! I was so happy to host Ky Southwell from the ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner) Professor Leanne Togher in London yesterday! Gordon's Wine Bar

Hopkins Centre Claudia Linda Barclay RealAus_Advocate My pleasure! It is such an important area which needs so much more attention and resources! We surveyed speech pathologists as part of Tennille Bertram’s thesis and found 40% did not include friends in their treatment of people with TBI. ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32552132/

#PublicationCake time! Congratulations Dr Catherine Talbot & daisyroepsych - it's been such a pleasure to work with you both on this 🎉🎉🎉🤗🤗🤗 Navigating who I was & who I am online: How people with #Dementia use #SocialMedia platforms to support identity doi.org/10.1177/147130…

Great opportunity to learn about #CommunicationPartnerTraining after #ABI in this SOCCA IBIA webinar by the wonderful ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 team member Dr Petra Avramovic! When: October 29, 2024, 4 PM EDT / October 30, 2024, 7 AM AEDT Register here: ibia.eventsair.com/webinars/20241…

Great to receive such a lovely reception to this international presentation by ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬 PhD candidate Ky Southwell at the recent International Paediatric Brain Injury Society conference in Glasgow!

CONGRATULATIONS to our fabulous leader at the ABI Communication Lab 🧠 🌱 💬, Professor Leanne Togher, who was awarded the 2024 Australian Speech Pathologist of the Year at the Australian Allied Health Awards last week 🌟🌟🌟 The event also included a fabulous keynote by Libby Callaway (she/her) 🙌🙌🙌