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Chia Yi
@chiayitay.bsky.social
Speech and language therapist. Yaps about desserts, dementia, disabilities & everything in between.
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Reposting my #24WaysToSupportSafeSwallowing from Twitter as we countdown to Christmas ✨

If your loved ones have dysphagia (swallowing difficulties), these strategies might make mealtime safer and more enjoyable for them 🤍
Moving my 2-year-old #24WaysToSupportCommunication from Twitter to keep a copy here as we countdown to Christmas ✨

If you’re supporting a a loved one who needs speech-language and/or communication aid, these strategies might help to reduce frustrations + make interaction a better experience
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Spent my day off living my best retirement fantasy running a bookshop on wheels (and escaping my IRL responsibilities) when someone waltzed in for book recs!

Yes, of course I’d be ever happy to recommend @hannaalkaf.bsky.social ‘s book in @tinybookshopgame.com 😍🇲🇾
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We’ve added many more ornaments to our tree (mostly gifted & from our travels) since our homemade-toilet-paper ones when we got our first tree in Sabah.

Thank you to everyone working today (the husband too lol)

Blessed Christmas filled with God’s love from ours to yours 🎄❤️
December 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Cleared out half of my wish list during this Steam winter sale thingy that my bank called me to ask if my credit card was stolen 😭

Had to laugh painfully and admit that:
It was me - the irresponsible person buying 6 games she won’t have time to complete was me all along.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Reposting my #24WaysToSupportSafeSwallowing from Twitter as we countdown to Christmas ✨

If your loved ones have dysphagia (swallowing difficulties), these strategies might make mealtime safer and more enjoyable for them 🤍
Moving my 2-year-old #24WaysToSupportCommunication from Twitter to keep a copy here as we countdown to Christmas ✨

If you’re supporting a a loved one who needs speech-language and/or communication aid, these strategies might help to reduce frustrations + make interaction a better experience
🤍
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Me:
I want to start playing LaDS but I might not have enough time to login everyday. Will the guys die if I don’t login consistently?

Husband:
…they are not tamagotchi…

Me:
Oh great phew (has killed way too many virtual pets for forgetting about them).
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Me:
Painstakingly modifying the hospital’s western menu like spaghetti, baked potatoes, grilled chicken etc to IDDSI dysphagia-friendly meals

Patients:
Orders mostly from the asian menu of chicken with goji berries and steamed fish with cordyceps etc

Me:
a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a vest
Alt: a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a vest looking perplexed
media.tenor.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Hospital-based SLT’s morning be like:
- look at list of cases in the system
- calls food service to order food for meal observations and swallowing assessments, realising that we have “steamed fish slices with ginger and goji berries” today on the menu WOW 😯

To many safer oral meals today ✨
September 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Working with a child with misophonia recently and I can’t wait to learn how we can include games too😍

PS: from low vision, hearing, to ADHD and many more, I’ve always told the husband that in another life (if I’m not an SLT), I’d like to be a game developer working to make games more accessible ✨
Speaker announcement📢

The full lineup for GAConf USA 2025 is now online, including lots of previously unannounced talks - from FC26 to the Nhuad controller, from AbleToPlay to South of Midnight!
gaconf.com/schedule

Sept 29th - 30th, registration at gaconf.com
#gamedev #indiedev
September 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Played Duo Quest by @1plus1studios.bsky.social with the husband today (and we didn’t murder each other) 😌✨

Love the simple mechanics, cute art, whimsical music, and the option to build a deck of “no block, only bonk”.
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We shouldn’t be asking Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) or children of immigrants/refugees to interpret and translate for their parents, especially in healthcare settings 😮‍💨🥲
August 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Was in the husband’s hometown last weekend and we were driving by a place when the husband introduced:

Him: I used to come here for the methadone clinic.

Me: 👀

Him: … I was attached to the clinic; not for the services.
August 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
And farming/fishing/gathering 💯
The main purpose of playing a video game is to find cute outfits for your character to wear ❤️
August 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
In case you need to buy a game with:
- stunning art
- banging soundtrack
- great narrative about living and navigating grief with loved ones whilst holding safe space and be graceful to yourself in difficult times

…it’s the cheaper of this two 😌
July 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I have once again decided to run away from Modern World Responsibilities and go inherit my fictional grandpa’s farm:
May 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Here at Indie Jam to support @yyng7.bsky.social and her impactful PhD findings ✨

Learned so much from her work on cultural representation in games and how developers can move forward in balancing mechanics and platforming our local cultures and stories.
April 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
So many people using genAI art and I’m just here reposting my old scribbles of the husband showing me where the wards were in his hospital when I was covering it during the peak of covid lockdown.

Pen, notebook paper, and badly drawn bunny + hedgehog ❤️
April 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Forgot to update here too but:
2 months later, we went for the hearing aids trial appointment at the hospital 🦻✨

Dad got to try out 3 different brands of hearing aids (I forgot to take photo of the other one 😅).

1/4
April 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My mum when I was 7:
It’s your birthday - the time to be grateful to all your blessings. Let’s pick a cause (eg homelessness, HIV etc) you want to learn more and we go visit them to find out how to best support them.

My mum when my nephew turns 7:
Let’s go genting theme park 🎢
February 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I love watching the husband play #Hades2 and learning about Greek myth through all the small little nuggets of clues peppered in dialogues and incredible art/design whilst I snicker knowingly next to him having read the books 🤭

Yes, we’re the stereotypical gamer/reader couple 📚
February 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I’ve bought every single soundtrack and have loved every one of them! Thank you for making amazing music ❤️
With the launch of The Warsong Update, the Hades II Original Soundtrack is up to 40 tracks — more than three hours of original music by Darren Korb and contributing artists!🎶

Have a listen to the latest pieces on our YouTube channel, coming soon to Spotify as well:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=paT_...
Hades II - Fading Fading
YouTube video by Supergiant Games
www.youtube.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dying for love is easy.

Living for love:
making conscious effort to exercise, eat well, get mental health support, loving yourself, honouring others etc

That’s the hardest bit.
Happy Valentine’s to mine ❤️
February 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'm not used to speaking formal Mandarin but the lovely people at AiFM & RTM made it so much easier for me. Thank you, Mun Meng!

After much preparation, here's me #DoItScared and talking about four strategies for dementia care partners at home in Mandarin:
youtube.com/watch?v=PaKJR5…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PaKJR5…
February 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Still can’t get over how tapir babies look exactly like kek batik.

THIS IS THE CUTEST KEK BATIK 😍😍
February 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM