Jen Thomson
jentslt.bsky.social
Jen Thomson
@jentslt.bsky.social
Clinical Specialist Speech & Language Therapist in Stroke - Leeds, UK

Clinical/research interests: aphasia, dysarthria, stroke, rehabilitation, counselling (trainee)
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I've yet to see a hardcopy myself but Amazon has some actual photos posted.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Study sought to improve production of locative adjuncts in sentence & discourse tasks in persons w/ aphasia using implicit structural priming. They examined what factors impact degrees of structural priming effects. https://on.asha.org/4pft8SP @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social
Priming Adjuncts in Sentence and Discourse Production in Neurotypical Adults and Persons With Aphasia
Purpose: Although optional elements of speech, speakers frequently use adjunct phrases (e.g., on the rug, by the weekend) to enrich message conte...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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#JSLHR study evaluated the feasibility & effectiveness of the comprehensive, high-dose aphasia treatment (CHAT) program, a modified-ICAP, when implemented by a public rehabilitation facility in Brisbane, Australia. https://on.asha.org/4o1wLL9

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Clinical Effectiveness of the Comprehensive, High-Dose Aphasia Treatment Program for People With Poststroke Aphasia
Purpose: Intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) are a novel service delivery model incorporating best practice principles in aphasia re...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Authors examined if phase synchrony index (PSI) from resting-state EEG could predict aphasia recovery after #stroke. PSI, particularly inter-temporal PSI, may reflect recovery-related changes in networks post-stroke and could be a biomarker of aphasia recovery.

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November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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PhD application deadline Dec 15th

Excited to bring on a mentee to advance our precision rehabilitation of anomia research at the intersection of #cogsci and #aphasia
I'm open to accepting a #PhD student in #CDS beginning Fall 2026 at #UBuffalo!

Join me in tackling questions about precision rehab of #anomia to improve communication and quality of life of people living with #aphasia

A few things to consider, but also *please* reach out
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Directly rating 4 key dimensions w/ an auditory-perceptual approach shows promise as a highly efficient way to analyze connected speech in aphasia; more work will be necessary to develop this approach for clinical applications. https://on.asha.org/3LtXbb7 @sigperspectives.bsky.social #SLPeeps
Feasibility of Auditory-Perceptual Rating of Four Dimensions of Connected Speech in Aphasia
Purpose: The purpose of this preliminary research study was to evaluate the feasibility of directly rating four dimensions of connected speech in...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking. My new
@psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social.
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Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking
For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after stroke. This article from #ASHASIG2 shows how SLPs can guide conversations and support adults with aphasia who wish to return to work https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00021 #SLPeeps #SLP2Be
Workplace Reentry for Adults With Aphasia: Understanding Definitions and Motivations
Purpose: Research has shown that individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after their stroke. While individuals living with aphasia want...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia. The validity and reliability of the Transactional EXchanges in Texting for Aphasia (TEXT-A) rating scale are evaluated in this recent #JSLHR study.

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Validity and Reliability of the Transactional EXchanges in Texting for Aphasia Rating Scale
Purpose: Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia (PWA). Given the chronicity of aphasia and the ...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Lippersley Pike. 1767! Following the old ways. I guess people were crossing this landscape before it became a grouse moor desert ... #moorland #Yorkshire
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The October @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter is out now: bit.ly/3WyBMQ8 This issue covers Rx for child language, literacy, adult language, dysphagia, disability, and paediatric feeding. SIX of the papers are open access! #SLPeeps #SLP #SLT #wespeechies #speechbite #bskySPEECHIES
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November 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Study supports structural priming as an effective sentence production treatment for persons w/#aphasia, especially when verbs are not matched between primes & target. https://on.asha.org/47u4q9Y

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Structural Priming Treatment in Aphasia: The Role of Lexical and Abstract Syntactic Representations
Purpose: Sentence production is impaired in many persons with aphasia (PWA). However, few effective treatments for sentence production exist. Rec...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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DW. This page expands on two Clinical Rehabilitation articles: doi.org/10.1177/0269... and doi.org/10.1177/0269..., which are on Rehabilitation Thinking and a General Theory of Rehabilitation.
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Measures of coping that are accessible to persons w/ aphasia are lacking. This #AJSLP article takes a step toward solving this problem by presenting a coping questionnaire, the Aphasia Brief COPE, standardized on persons w/ #aphasia. https://on.asha.org/47mSwid

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The Aphasia Brief COPE
Purpose: Measures of coping that are accessible to persons with aphasia in both clinical and research environments are lacking. The current artic...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Our new paper on assessing conversations after brain injury is now OPEN ACCESS 📝🗣️

✅ 5-min conversation ratings are more reliable & practical than 10-min ones
✅ MPC & MSC scales showed moderate reliability
✅ Scoring takes <30 min

👉 Read here:
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Feasibility and Reliability of the Adapted Kagan Scales for Rating Conversations for People With Acquired Brain Injury: A Multiphase Iterative Mixed-Methods Design
Purpose: Rating the quality of conversations can assess communication skills in both people with acquired brain injury and their communication pa...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Watch our latest Seminars

Have you missed any of our seminars this year? Our YouTube chanel has recordings of our seminars available for you to watch anytime. Seminar 57 - How do speech pathologists deliver services to bi/multilingual adults with aphasia in a hospital and healthcare setting?…
Watch our latest Seminars
Have you missed any of our seminars this year? Our YouTube chanel has recordings of our seminars available for you to watch anytime. Seminar 57 - How do speech pathologists deliver services to bi/multilingual adults with aphasia in a hospital and healthcare setting? Presentation by: Samantha Siyambalapitiya. This presentation will discuss findings from a qualitative case study conducted at a Queensland hospital exploring the current practice of speech pathologists working with bi/multilingual adults with aphasia.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The September @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter is out now: bit.ly/4nSwz1d This issue covers Rx for child speech and language, aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia, disability, voice and fluency. SIX of the papers are open access! #SLPeeps #SLP #SLT #wespeechies #speechbite #bskySPEECHIES
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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"I felt really confident to enter the session": a pilot evaluation of a co-designed speech pathologist and interpreter collaboration tool for aphasia therapy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41017380/
September 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Important paper by Sarah Schneck, @smwilson.bsky.social et al. "We found strong evidence that left posterior temporal cortex is the most critical region for language processing in post-stroke aphasia...right posterior temporal cortex made an independent contribution"

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Independent contributions of language activations in left and right temporal cortex to aphasia outcomes after stroke
Recovery from aphasia after stroke is thought to depend on functional reorganization of language processing in surviving brain regions. Many studies have investigated this process, but progress has be...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Researchers aimed to better understand SLPs' clinical practice re. rehabilitation of reading & writing w/ clients who have #aphasia. The research focused on improving educational training opportunities & access to literacy resources for SLPs. https://on.asha.org/3VscG55 @sigperspectives.bsky.social
Reading and Writing Rehabilitation With Individuals With Aphasia: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists' Clinical Practice and Perspectives
Purpose: Most individuals with aphasia want to improve their reading and writing, yet these language skills are not typically prioritized in apha...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Researchers describe the incidence of aphasia, high-level language impairment, and swallowing impairment in patients post-stroke treated with mechanical thrombectomy.

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Influence of Swallowing Function, Aphasia and High-Level Language Impairment on Discharge Destination Acutely Post-Thrombectomy
Purpose: This study aimed to describe the incidence of aphasia, high-level language impairment, and swallowing impairment in patients post-stroke...
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September 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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New work on aphasia treatment outcome from Janina Wilmskoetter and the CSTAR team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Naming practice effects and inconsistencies relate to treatment outcome in people with aphasia
Intra-individual variability in language performance has been proposed as a factor associated with treatment outcomes in chronic aphasia. However, the…
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September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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So honored to contribute to this important work and push forward #discourse research for underrepresented aphasia populations!

Congratulations to all my co-authors and the incredible ASAL team!

Our paper is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Aphasia in South Asian languages (ASAL) project: a protocol of connected speech tasks for investigating cross-linguistic grammatical profiles in aphasia for South Asian languages
Languages vary in their syntactic (e.g. word order in sentences), lexical (e.g. presence of specific word classes), and morphological (e.g. inflectional or derivational forms of words) properties. ...
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September 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Join us for our next Seminar -24th Sept 2025 at 4pm

“How do speech pathologists deliver services to bi/multilingual adults with aphasia in a hospital and healthcare setting?”
Presentation by: Samantha Siyambalapitiya

Register now for your free Zoom link - latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM