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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 9d

NEXT #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 6 NOV 25 8-9.15pm GMT
Nothing about #AAC users without AAC users:
a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development & professional training.
Grant Blasko,Janice Light, David McNaughton,Bob Williams & Jordyn Zimmerman(2025)41:3, 184-194 doi.org/10.1080/0743...

Nothing about AAC users without AAC users: a call for meaningful inclusion in research, technology development, and professional training

Historically, priorities for research, technology development, and professional training in the field of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) have been identified largely by nondisabled...

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 9d

#SaLTBkGrp yesterday eve loved the respect, warmth, listening betwn us conversing abt respect 4 stammerers experience.The equality betwn us:one in her sixties doing a PhD, one in her 20s entering 3rd yr of SaLT trng-me- retired from work with clients this wk & those still in full tilt employment💓📗

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 10d

#SaLTBkGrp tonight - new autumn phase :
"Understanding the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering Can Improve Stuttering Therapy"
Seth E. Tichenor, Caryn Herring, and J. Scott Yaruss
Top Lang Disorders
Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 57–75
© 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 11d

friend to me to old Hastings this eve....

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · 12d

it's catching

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Sep 3

A friend just told me she overheard a boy ask in a DIY shop a few weeks ago:"Do you have a de-humiliator?"🌞💦

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tmw! Invited to run training day & do some storytelling at Ringwood Shelling School, where I lived & worked as a volunteer Carer/ #SaLT for 6 yrs with chn with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities& autism.They taught me how to be a Human B & SaLT. Now: ⬆️ EB oral #storytelling rhythm gesture.

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hey! 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES a survey from #SLP2b @emmamcvean.bsky.social -- click the LinkedIn survey link twice. 🙏PLEASE BOOST> @lisntell.bsky.social @ficontextual.bsky.social @nesltresearch.bsky.social @apinchofsalts.bsky.social @gillianrudd.bsky.social

🌎🌍🌏DO YOU SEEK INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS, EMMA?

Emma McVean @emmamcvean.bsky.social · Jul 24

Looking for Speech and Language Therapists working with children with learning disabilities to complete my dissertation survey!
Survey Link: lnkd.in/dx7dbSJz

Please share with other SLT’s if you can!
Thank you :)

#SLT #SpeechandLanguageTherapy #LearningDisabilities #Paediatrics #SLTstudent

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jul 13

Almost had to stop driving last night listening to this riveting radio-deep,tender, funny& so respectful towrds the individual subject & listener. "Oh the Humanity!" as an 11 yr old with cognitive difficulties exclaimd to me once 1/2 thro a spontaneous story he told of love, loss & reconciliation...

Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · Jul 13

...Kaye Mortley, an Australian living in Paris; the Australian poet and radio-maker Robyn Ravlich, Edwin Brys from Belgium; a trio of BBC producers - Simon Elmes, Mark Burman and Sarah Taylor - and the legendary British feature-maker Piers Plowright who died in 2021. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Ballad of the Radio Feature

A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature.

www.bbc.co.uk

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you for important quote about the parties and: “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jul 5

Fine group of Speech Pathologists, 1 #OT and a manager #childrenscare who took part in #Lis'nTell: #liveinclusivestorytelling part 1 training, end of May this year. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 #Lis'nTell core practitioner #SaLT @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying me & to fabulous 🇲🇹 hospitality, commitment & experience 👏🏼

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jul 5

Great news! Congratulations to, from July 1st 2025, Distinguished Professor @pamelasnow.bsky.social one of the most compelling, clear and compassionate lecturers and writers I have encountered. pamelasnow.blogspot.com #literacy #education Thank you for your work 🏚️ 📖

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jul 5

wonderful - and tragic #linguicide

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jul 5

CONGRATULATIONS! 💪🏼

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 25

Beautiful!

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 14

Unexpected article abt the essence of Lis'n Tell:live inclusive storytelling by 🇲🇹 #SLP Veronica Montanaro (PhD student Leeds Uni) b4 our recent 🇲🇹 visit. Many thanks to VM🌞 for inviting me to run Part 1 again & to @sltbubble.bsky.social for accompanying brilliantly🌟 www.taascmalta.com/blog/span-cl...

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Jun 4

DAY 1️⃣ #push-upCHALLENGE 3,214 push-ups in 23 days
www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... Our 😅sweaty efforts are dedicated to: Students navigating school pressures, feelings of isolation or "difference", and social media anxiety. www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... 💰YOU CAN DONATE!

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 9

Training Attention Autism Advanced Practitioner Group this wk: participants frm South Africa, Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong. Finding tales frm each culture to practise storytelling eg: iconic gesture/memory & intonation; imagination/seeing what you're saying (or feeling if aphantasic);rhythm 'n role

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 9

Back from training #SLP team in Malta🇲🇹 with Lis'n Tell Core Practitioner #SLT Caroline Casula. Loved their expressiveness, engagement, insights. Moved by 'de-institutionalisation' in senior /child care homes & how they see Lis'n Tell part of that. Special Assistance at airports fantastic each way ♿

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 5

Next #SaLTBkGrp Thurs 3July 8pm BST is about rdcu.be/epDVP, plus paper by autistic adults abt their GLP related experience (I don't have link yet).
Also interesting re GLP history/ backgrnd to the Systematic Rev/ GLP NLA/ #languagedevelopment/ #SLP for #echolalia: thedldproject.com/gestalt-lang...

Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents

rdcu.be

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Apr 20

Re-reading The Future of Neurodiversity.

"Neurodivergent Power would place our sights squarely on our collective ability to resist the entire economic system that disables and discriminates against us". @drrobertchapman.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-fu...

The Future of Neurodiversity - Boston Review

The movement has made important progress, but focusing on rights and representation leaves too many behind.

www.bostonreview.net

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Apr 25

🆓 🔓 Alyssa Kuiack and @larchiba.bsky.social #DevLangDis in #PlainEnglish #easyEnglish 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Kuiack, A. & Archibald, L (2019) Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About. Frontiers for Young Minds. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About

Using language is a skill that allows us to share our ideas and feelings, to learn in school, and to understand the world around us. Unfortunately, using and understanding language is not easy for eve...

kids.frontiersin.org

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 5

Finding this so interesting and looking forward to conversation this evening #SaLTBkGrp about: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin...

Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · Jun 3

As decided last time #SaLTBkGrp
Thurs Jun 5, 2025 8:00-9.15 PM London
NEW Topic: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin...
#SaLT #SLP #Disability #conversation
#sharedexperience #livedexperience
Do let me know if you'd like to join this new phase either by DM or email me via website: www.lisntell.co.uk 🙏🏼📚🫖☕

Learning from the experiences of disabled SLTs | RCSLT

www.rcslt.org

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Louise Coigley @lisntell.bsky.social · May 6

#SaLTBkGrp moving to 1st Thurs/month 8pm BST Thurs June 5th: www.rcslt.org/news/learnin... Thurs July 3rd: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Systematic Review of Interventions Based on (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence & Cautions for Clinicians & Parents. Interested?-DM me 🌞

Learning from the experiences of disabled SLTs | RCSLT

www.rcslt.org

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