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Bronwyn Hemsley

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Bring me the evidence. Certified Practising Speech Pathologist #Dysphagia #AugComm #AAC #Disability #CommunicationRights #Mealtimes #QualityOfLife #VR #AR #GenAI #AssistiveTech Banner pic Mark Smith Ulysses x 3

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Mar 9

Ethically approved Opt Out Statement

Do you publish social media posts on #GestaltLanguageProcessing #NaturalLanguageAcquisition?

From 10 Mar-10Apr we are analysing the content (no identifying details) of YouTube & Insta posts.

No posts (images, vids) are collected, stored or included in reports.

At UTS we are currently investigating the content of public YouTube and Instagram posts relating to #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition (GLP/NLA) with ethical approval ETH24-10332. The research is being conducted from 10 Mar to 10 April in 2025. We aim to understand more about the information that viewers obtain from watching YouTube or Insta posts about GLP/NLA. We are not collecting data on your name or any identifying information and are not downloading or storing the images or photos. No images or photos will be used in reporting on the results in conference presentations or journal articles, and no individual data will be reported apart from de-identified excerpts of quotes. If you wish to opt out and not have your YouTube or Insta posts included in the research please email us on Bronwyn.Hemsley@uts.edu.au No contact details about you will be retained and if any of your posts are already collected they will be removed permanently from the data. This data collection period is from 10 March to 10 April in 2025 (1 month). I will post a similar notice when the data collection period is completed.

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · 13h

You are working full time just a new configuration of roles and responsibilities -

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Thanks Stuart! Lucky so have notifications on to get birthday 🎁 Hope you’re going well!

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Jul 14

A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.

Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧵🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. #Brava @carorowland.bsky.social et al. See that, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!

Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Jun 27

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition

Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing, and artificial intelli...

www.cell.com

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks Stuart - no I hadn’t - what a good shake down of #FC #RPM #SpellersMethod @katharinebeals.bsky.social @fcisnotscience.bsky.social

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Talking Mats @talkingmats.bsky.social · Jun 13

Delighted to be working with @uofglasgowsldo.bsky.social - taking the resource we developed for #cancerscreening research & turning it into a practical tool for practitioners. We will work with 10 people supporting screening with people with #learningdisability . Looking forward to their feedback

Card set with cards about the cancer screening experience

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Suze @suze-freogirl.bsky.social · Jun 13

What an absolute treat to have @maggiebeer and @jadecartwright.bsky.social talking about the culture of care and meals in aged care here at our annual @speechpathologyaustralia conference #slps #speechies

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Jun 8

💭 🤔 @katharinebeals.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/child-rights... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps #UDHR

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James Lind Library @jameslindlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ahoy! Want to learn more about blinded outcome assessment through history? Read my essay at www.jameslindlibrary.org/essays-essay... #DoubleBlind #EBHC #EBM #RCT #FairTests

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Ace Centre @acecentreuk.bsky.social · Apr 7

Are you an AAC user/comm partner? The AAC Oral History project needs you!🫵

A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC!

Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · Apr 1

If you're disabled, you are more likely to read books by able bodied writers that are inspiration p0rn or else detail how your life is ruined by disability, than books by actually disabled writers, as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social wrote in Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Disabled Authors Deserve, and Demand, More

Author and activist Alice Wong reflects on disability representation in publishing.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · Mar 29

Please spend 10 minutes helping this honours student project

Tricia McCabe @tricmc.bsky.social · Mar 24

Speechie in Australia? Do you work with kids with #cerebralPalsy? @sydneyuni Honours student needs you to answer a survey.

sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Young woman sitting on the floor of a modern lounge room showing a picture to a child of five or six. A QR code in the bottom Left corner

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mamaestra3.bsky.social @mamaestra3.bsky.social · Apr 4

My 9yo, penguin-loving daughter helped with this one.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 4

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Apr 1

Did anyone attend the UK and Ireland Facebook group meeting last night about our #GLP #GestaltLanguageProcessing webinar for Irish Association of SLTs next Monday morning? How many were there strategising/freaking out?

Over 200 registered for our talk!!
There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA

Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Mar 31

I have been a musical language processor all along.

a cartoon of a dog playing drums with a bandana on his head

Alt: a cartoon of a dog Bluey playing drums with a bandana on his head

media.tenor.com

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Mar 30

“After this presentation, I feel more confident caring for #autistic patients”: The impact of neurodivergent doctors educating hospital staff about #neurodiversity. #autism Thanks @jodeeslt.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#medicaleducation, #healthcareimprovement, #healthequity

(PDF) “After this presentation, I feel more confident caring for autistic patients”: The impact of neurodivergent doctors educating hospital staff about neurodiversity

PDF | Guidelines for professionals practising in healthcare settings recommend that autistic people seeking care should receive neurodiversity-affirming... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

www.researchgate.net

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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · Mar 26

Here is a sequence of my friend the great blue heron (who I still need to name) preparing their trout for consumption. I crossed-checked a scar on its beak near its eye with a picture from two weeks ago and it matched. This heron is not scared of humans and fishes with me standing 15-feet away.

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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · Mar 26

A great blue heron perches on the roots of a tree fallen over into the pond at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.

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merritt @merrittk.com · Mar 26

does anyone know how to make money as a respected writer and designer who has published multiple books and had stuff shown in festivals around the world and given keynote talks and things of that nature. my mom is retiring this year with basically no savings and i want to be able to help support her

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · Mar 25

#ResearchTuesday!

#JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. at.asha.org/Ak

@sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Measuring Intentional Communication in Infants at Elevated Likelihood of Autism: Validity, Reliability, and Responsiveness of a Novel Coding Scale

Purpose: Intentional communication acts, or purposefully directed vocalizations and gestures, are particularly difficult for infants at elevated ...

at.asha.org

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · Mar 24

Researchers examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to SLP undergraduate students using a high-cost, ready-made endoscopy training model versus a low-cost, 3D-printed model.

Nasopharyngoscopic Velopharyngeal Port Function Assessment: A Randomized Comparative Trial of 3D-Printed Versus Ready-Made Models

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to spe...

on.asha.org

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Sally Morgan @sallymorganslt.bsky.social · Mar 21

Really lovely to be asked to share about all I’ve learnt from the literature, fab SLTs in my survey and some amazing family careers & children. 👇🏼👇🏽

Mark Jayes PhD, FRCSLT @markjayes.bsky.social · Mar 21

Free @manmetuni.bsky.social #communication #disability #research #webinar with the brilliant @sallymorganslt.bsky.social presenting 'Safe, Efficient & Enjoyable Mealtimes for families of #children with #neurodevelopmental #dysphagia’ 08/04/25 16.30-17.30 GMT+1 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Join conversation

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Bronwyn Hemsley @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social · Mar 21

And what about empty (not saying false, but potentially) claims about research having been conducted on an intervention - with no evidence provided for this - and people then implementing the intervention at $$$ on the basis of those claims?

I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.

Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Mar 21

Nham Tran UTS @aunz.theconversation.com "Fewer than 20% of all retractions are due to honest mistakes. Researchers usually contact the publisher to correct errors when they are detected, with no major consequences". The rest arise from researchers behaving badly. theconversation.com/scientific-m...

Scientific misconduct is on the rise. But what exactly is it?

In 2023, more than 10,000 research papers were retracted because of scientific misconduct. But it’s not always deliberate.

theconversation.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 21

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

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