July is Disability Pride Month! NWACS celebrates diversity & inclusion. Join us as we strive to fight ableism and discrimination & advocate for the inclusion of all people with disabilities. #DisabilityPrideMonth #AAC #CommunicationDisability #AugComm #AugmentativeCommunication

Paul is the Peer Leader for the aphasia support group in Hove. About 20-30 people attend each week, and laughter always echoes in the room. ASLTIP #aphasia #aphasiaawareness #aphasiaawarenessmonth #communicationdisability #aphasiarecovery #aphasiasupport SCFT Volunteers

New paper: #OpenAccess Congratulations to our #SLPhD Rebecca Sullivan article: “We don’t look too much into the communication disability”: clinicians’ views and experiences on the effect of #CommunicationDisability on #falls in hospital patients w stroke tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📕#MetalinguisticAwareness as #SelfManagement in People with #ApraxiaofSpeech and #Aphasia: #LivedExperience from a Longitudinal #CaseSeries. New article published in Disabilities, ✍️Katharyn Mumby Free full-text▶️mdpi.com/2673-7272/3/4/… #CommunicationDisability #metalanguage #SLT

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Sarah Bethany Dickens (Scott) Nationwide So sorry to hear you’ve had this problem Sarah Bethany Dickens (Scott) !! How frustrating! Sounds like Nationwide could benefit from some #aphasia #communicationdisability training. Perhaps they could get their staff to do interact-ABI-lity. abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/courses/intera…

I’m at the #NAHC2023 today, come and chat about poster 111 #Falls #CommunicationDisability #MyDeadlyPhD National Allied Health Conference

TLDR:#CommunicationDisability is not often captured as a #risk factor for a fall on Ax tools. Limited guidance for staff to adapt #FallsPreventionEducation for patients with #CommunicationDisability Limited identified role for speech path in falls prevention or management #SLP

NEW: Research on #Hospital #Falls #Policies in relation to patients with #CommunicationDisability publish.csiro.au/AH/AH22289 #MyDeadlyPhD BronwynHemsley Ian Skinner EH_Research

The thing about #autism is that sometimes you can do this, but most of the time, you can't make a phone call. #communicationdisability #proudmama

@Nat_Douglas Dr. Sarah E Wallace Thankyou! We recently published this paper too, it details the circumstances (time of day, location, activity), and outcomes of falls in hospital patients with communication disability after stroke doi.org/10.1177/105477… #MyDeadlyPhD #Falls #CommunicationDisability #Hospital

Claudia 100% We recently published this paper too, it details the circumstances (time of day, location, activity), and outcomes of falls in hospital patients with communication disability after stroke doi.org/10.1177/105477… #MyDeadlyPhD #Falls #CommunicationDisability #Hospital

Julie Keane Gillian Harte Thankyou! We recently published this paper too, it details the circumstances (time of day, location, activity), and outcomes of falls in hospital patients with communication disability after stroke doi.org/10.1177/105477… #MyDeadlyPhD #Falls #CommunicationDisability #Hospital

NEW: Research on falls in patients with communication disability after stroke in hospital. #falls #communicationdisability #aphasia #MyDeadlyPhD onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Speech & language therapy are raising awareness of #aphasia. Aphasia is a #CommunicationDisability from damage to the brain's communication centres. Aphasia affects approx 350,000 people in the UK yet not many people have heard of it. #AphasiaAwarenessMonth #LetsTalkAphasia

Video providing information needed to understand what aphasia is. Aphasia has a larger negative impact on quality of life than any other conditions (Lam and Wodchis, 2010) #aphasia #communicationdisability youtube.com/watch?v=y8B_fm…