Bronwyn Hemsley

Book Review: Gestalt Language Processing: Supporting Autistic and Neurodivergent Children with Natural Language Acquisition by Alison Battye - Bronwyn Hemsley, Lucy Bryant, Katharine Beals, 2026

🆕 Hemsley, B., Bryant, L., & Beals, K. (2026). Book Review: #GLP: Supporting Autistic and Neurodivergent Children with Natural Language Acquisition by Alison Battye. CLTT, doi.org/10.1177/0265... @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

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

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

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.

🧵🆓🔓🦋 #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!

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

Card set with cards about the cancer screening experience

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

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

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

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

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

Disabled Authors Deserve, and Demand, More Author and activist Alice Wong reflects on disability representation in publishing.

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/...

Please spend 10 minutes helping this honours student project

Tax the rich, not the penguins.

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

Penguin flying off an iceberg

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

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

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

I have been a musical language processor all along.

(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...

“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

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.

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

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

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 ...

#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

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...

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.

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. 👇🏼👇🏽

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.

You want to see an octopus riding a shark.

🎥: University of Auckland

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

NSW government to launch inquiry into troubled childcare sector A parliamentary inquiry has been called into the troubled childcare sector following a landmark ABC investigation into serious safety breaches in the industry.

Adele’s excellent and truly disturbing Four Corners story on childcare on Monday night has sparked a NSW inquiry. In August, Four Corners will have been holding truth to power for 64 years. We are grateful for your support.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Send me the receipt!!

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... Purpose of the Review This systematic review aimed to determine whether interventions related to Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA) are effective for individuals wi...

What is the latest evidence on #GLPNLA #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition in autism with minimally or non-speaking children or adults?

If it works, why are there no papers months after our review?

Do you know of any studies?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Working with Adults with DLD network NAPLIC is planning on starting a network for professionals who work with adults with DLD. We want to know your views so that we build them into our plans. Network meetings will be termly, online and f...

We are very excited to be launching a network for UK professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis
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