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So pleased to share a series of films made with people with #aphasia/ family members on what we can all do to support emotional recovery post #stroke. They hoped their messages would be heard widely – please share! Links to films in thread 1/14

New paper published in International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: "Exploring clinical reasoning in child language assessment through decoloniality" by Buddhima Samaraweera, Mershen Pillay, Nimisha Muttiah & Legini Moodley #SLP #childlanguage tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Aphasia Handbook - a vital introduction for people experiencing aphasia due to stroke, developed by the Stroke Foundation & AAA is now available here - tinyurl.com/9wdm25c5 Packs of hardcopies 10/20/50 are FREE. Postage & packing fee applies. Order-www.strokefoundation.org.au

Hi I’m a 3rd year SLT student conducting my dissertation on the experiences of ethnic minority students. If interested, contact me on: [email protected] Please share, thank you!

Current push back on antiracist & decolonial initiatives/movements within Higher Education (and society) is not new. The below are just *some* of the responses we got from staff when asked what they really thought about decolonisation ⤵️ Read full report eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/191449/

Griffith University 's Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability together with Dylan Alcott are proud to announce the DAF Scholarship for commencing undergraduate #students with #disability Applications close 4pm Monday 15 April, 2024. Apply: shorturl.at/wET36

Today I had a great time presenting a keynote about #culturally responsive research at @MetSthHealth COH Innovation Showcase. Interesting audience Qs & reflections & heard some great presentations including the keynote from my amazing #GriffithUni colleague Dr Dinesh Palipana.

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol 26, Issue 2 starts with a paper by Fran Cochrane Jenna Singleton-Bray, Waverley Canendo, Petrea Cornwell & Samantha Siyambalapitiya ☸. The first author was awarded a Speech Pathology Australia New Researcher Grant. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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.

Thank you Samantha Siyambalapitiya ☸ & Fran Cochrane for the invitation. It was a great space to be in. We need more discussion on issues regarding standardized testing and standard language ideologies in SLT.

🌟We are recruiting 🌟 #slpeeps Seeking an Associate Professor in Speech Pathology to lead the dynamic Speech Pathology team based at #GriffithUni at the Gold Coast. Details here: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniver…

RT: Awakening a sleeping language - Australian Geographic australiangeographic.com.au/news/2024/05/a…

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 It’s common for cross-cultural research to be conducted in a second language: a national majority language or lingua franca. But research among the Hadza, published today in PNAS Nexus, shows second languages can bias results. 🧵/14 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

Great to be IARC2024 today and having the opportunity to present our research. Griffith University James Cook Uni JCU College of Healthcare Sciences

Excellent presentation by Samantha Siyambalapitiya ☸ at IARC2024 about speech pathologists working with bilingual speakers with aphasia. Sympatico Research Group

.Samantha Siyambalapitiya ☸ Sympatico Research Group Griffith University important messages on working with families with bilingual aphasia, incl more time needed, interprofessional training, family involvement, and training on cultural responsiveness #IARC2024

Calling all #SLPvolunteers! Help my amazing students with a scoping review! 📚 We need your expertise to read 1-2 articles in #Portuguese, #Croatian, #Italian, or #Catalan (max 1 hour). 🌍 Interested? DM me your email, and we'll be in touch! #Linguistics #ResearchHelp

Here is our loving critique of Neurodiversity. Excited to have this work published and enjoyed reflecting and writing on this important topic with W & @mboveda.bsky.social. It's open access doi.org/10.1177/136236…

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.