New systematic review from Emily Hunt & colleagues re use of dynamic assessment to identify language disorder in #multilingual children

50 free eprints of this new paper from Fran Cochrane, myself and Petrea Cornwell PhD (she/her) exploring SLP practices during rehabilitation of acquired communication disorders when working with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander adults tandfonline.com/eprint/GAHZ2IN…

Dear world, aphasiatherapyonline.com has been translated into Urdu with thanks to the long, hard work of SP Alishba Ali Noon & Dr Rashid Mahmood 🙏. Their work will benefit some of the 51m (1st language) + 149m (2nd language) speakers! 🇵🇰🇮🇳 Fully Urdu site: aphasiatherapyonline.com/ur

Our next Special Interest Group meeting (for Australian #slpeeps) re "Cross-cultural practice and acquired communication disorders" is scheduled for Monday 6th June at 1pm AEST. The topic will be 'code-switching'. Looking forward to some interesting discussions!

Next week I've been invited by UniRdg_CeLM to give an online talk about #BilingualAphasia research: Tue 7th June at 6pm AEST. It's free and you can register via the link at this page ⬇️ All welcome. #bilingual #aphasia #slpeeps research.reading.ac.uk/celm/supportin…

In this commentary, we maintain that accent modification, regardless of how it’s named or framed, cannot escape its role in a linguistic economy that capitalizes on the perceived lack of intelligibility of racialized speakers. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽🙋🏿‍♂️ Can you identify key markers of DLD in bilingual children? We caught up with Professor Elizabeth Peña from the University of California to discuss her IDLDRC 2022 keynote titled, Rethinking Bilingual Development and Disorder: youtu.be/CkSaVJRB6AM #devlangdis #dldconf

Preparing some workshops for #slpeeps about working with #bilingual people with #aphasia. What questions do you have about #BilingualAphasia? #slp2b #SLT #aphasia

Our new sys review is OPEN access ✅: "Language intervention in #bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review" Led by Vishnu Nair with Grace T. Clark Samantha Siyambalapitiya ☸ & C.Reuterskiöld onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… #DevLangDis #slpeeps #slt

50 free copies available of this article by Kathleen Mellahn Chelsea Larkman Ali Lakhani myself & Professor Miranda Rose The nature of inpatient rehabilitation for people with aphasia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: a scoping review tandfonline.com/eprint/QFMHCIY…

It's been a while but...our next Special Interest Group meeting (for Australian #slpeeps) re "Cross-cultural practice and acquired communication disorders" is scheduled for Tuesday 30th May at 2pm AEST. Looking forward to some interesting discussions!

Amazing to see our article in print Journal of Critical Study of Comm. and Disability. This collective community response was about highlighting failed peer review process, resisting academic censorship & our condemnation of accent modification. SLP as a field has a lot to answer for upholding a racist practice.

Two speech pathologists have adapted the Castilian Spanish materials from aphasiatherapyonline.com to a Latin American context, including re-recording all 600 words. *Thank you* Yoel Droguett and @yinaquique for all your work on this 🙏🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏🏿 and to the testers #aphasia

New paper led by Fran Cochrane shares rich insights from #Indigenous health liaison officers re working with #slpeeps and First Peoples who have had a stroke or TBI. Grateful to Gunggandji man Waverley & Yiman woman Jenna for their role in facilitating data collection & analysis.

Our new OPEN access paper✅using data from Stroke Foundation national audit shows #stroke survivors who need #interpreters have different care & outcomes in acute hospital. More research coming from Kathleen Mellahn's doctoral work looking at rehab outcomes & perspectives of the MDT.

Excuse me internet, we now have a German adaptation of aphasiatherapyonline.com/de thanks to Lena Werner, Dorothea Peitz and Katja Hußmann 🇩🇪🥳 This provides a free option to *self manage* therapy tasks for German speakers with #aphasia

Great discussion tonight at our Sympatico SIG meeting where we chatted with Vishnu Nair about the thought-provoking paper re standardised testing in SLT. Really interesting perspectives from colleagues in UK, Australia & NZ. Looking forward to the next one.

Next week, we look forward to speaking with A/Prof Mershen Pillay Mershen Pillay about his paper "Decoloniality and healthcare higher education: Critical conversations" 16/10 at 12pm AEST To join: please DM us your email and we can share the online meeting link.