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Shalom (Shaz) Henderson
@shalomhenderson.bsky.social
Postdoctoral associate at BU Center for Brain Recovery | Lecturer at Northeastern | Previously @CambridgeUni | PhD, CCC-SLP 🧠🗣️
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Two-year post-doc position in my department working on a cool project applying cognitive science (transmission chain experiments and natural language processing) to study cultural evolution: tinyurl.com/bdeju6kw
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Post-Doctoral Research Associate. This post is available from 1st of Septemb...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Prizes have pros and cons, but I’m honored to have been nominated by my colleagues for this award for the EDI work I do at the @mrccbu.bsky.social, work that is dear to my heart. This award is not just mine- it symbolises all the folks who have started and supported EDI initiatives. Thank you all!
Huge congratulations to @mrccbu.bsky.social's @charlottegarcia.bsky.social for receiving the “Outstanding Contributions to EDI in the Workplace” award at yesterday’s School of Clinical Medicine EDI event! So well-deserved.
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Delighted to share that our preprint on the Progressive Aphasia Communication Toolkit (PACT) is available now!! The PACT has integrated feedback from 95 clinicians, researchers, PwPPA, and care partners worldwide. More to come!! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Progressive Aphasia Communication Toolkit (PACT): A Strengths-Based Approach to Multidomain Evaluation for Intervention
INTRODUCTION: Tools to document communicative ability in people living with primary progressive aphasia (PwPPA) are limited. This work describes the development of a strengths-based and ecologically-v...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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We need you:

Calling all researchers who do work in the field of primary progressive aphasia!

The first ever Int Conf on PPA 16-17th July 2026 in 🇬🇧

Only 6 weeks until the call for papers closes: www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
ICPPA Conference Call for Papers | Speech Therapy PPA
Call for papers for the International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia (ICPPA) 2026 in London, UK. Submit abstracts by January 15, 2026.
www.speechtherapyppa.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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New research by Henderson and colleagues found graded distinctions among typical amnestic and atypical (language, visual) Alzheimer’s phenotypes. The findings support a transdiagnostic, multidimensional model of AD that spans all subtypes: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-025-01873-w
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Presenting and sharing our work on #aphasia at the 2025 Academy of Aphasia meeting in San Diego
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Huge congrats to the newly minted DR @mjm.bsky.social 🎉 It’s been an absolute joy working with you, Manny. Your passion, hard work, and unwavering dedication to making your research truly meaningful for patients are nothing short of inspiring!
October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM