Karen Whisenhunt Saar (she/her)

I’m dying to know where all you applied.

Congratulations! Good luck with your decisions.

Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.

UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty

The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.” https://bit.ly/3MyingR

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

We don’t have nearly enough of them in the US. They are dedicated to engaging people in recreation-based activity to promote life engagement and quality of life during healing and rehabilitation processes. It’s explained better here: www.atra-online.com

This article highlights the value of #SLPeeps & #RecreationalTherapy collaborations to embed authentic social interaction & participation into meaningful activities.

Changing Norms Following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall Abstract Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups, both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S. election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

This study highlights the importance of speech-language pathology intervention for individuals with #dementia & their care partners.

Identifying strengths, compensating for needs, & training others can improve functional communication, safety, & social connection - at ALL stages

#SLPeeps

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

Now published…

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

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Many thanks to @gbuegge.bsky.social for making this possible!

SPARC Research Collaborative Collaboration & Creativity: Using arts as an avenue to promote language skills

This is the web tool our fabulous students (voluntarily) created for the event to synthesize & share current evidence on potential communication benefits of #arts programming.
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The upper left corner has pictures of women on a zoom call with the text “Thank you, Yakima school district for hosting a professional development workshop on creativity and speech and language intervention. Below that is a colorful slide with the workshop title, “collaboration and creativity: using inclusion theater to promote language skills” The right side says, “Lamar and Moravian University students created a website for Yakima SLPs illustrating the evidence based for creative language intervention.” Below the text is a screen shot of a webpage (link to this webpage: https://sites.google.com/moravian.edu/sparc-research-collaborative/)

Six women in zoom call tiles. Below them it states, “Inter-university Social Participation and Arts Research Collaborative Members: Karen Whisenhunt Saar, Monica Kaniamattam, Kayla Smith, Meghan Inglis, Emily Tucker, and Rylee Stephens (from Lamar University and Moravian University)”

Had a blast leading a professional development session with @monicakan.bsky.social on #inclusion #theatre for Yakima school #SLPeeps! Our amazing students created this website for the SLPs/SAs about evidence-based arts integration into speech therapy. I have the best job & best students!
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What a fulfilling day! Congrats on the qualification!

Detecting Pseudoscience 🛑This study developed & validated the Susceptibility TO Pseudoscience (STOP) scale - finding it promising for assessing students' & clinicians' ability to detect warning signs of pseudoscience.
#EBP #pseudoscience #InformationLiteracy #InfoLit #AcademicSky #EduSky #MedEd

#qualitative

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Put the leash on the ground and step on it. Your weight will hold them in place while you do the rest.

Happy World Linguistics Day from Texas, United States.

Interested in publishing implementation research that serves ASHA's SLPs? Check out our call for papers online! Guest Editor Amy K. Peterson is putting together a forum in LSHSS. Read more information below and submit your letter of intent by January 15! https://on.asha.org/4oJw8qJ

Such a great game!

I certainly have plenty obsolete cables.

In the foreground a table is set with the board game Roll Player. There are stacks of cards, containers with coins and game pieces, player mats and dice are set out and there is a bag full of more dice. The background has blurry book shelves and a Christmas tree.

Three piles of board game boxes on a table. Front role contains: Port Royal, Splendor Duel, and Sea Salt & Paper on the left. Roll Player on the right. Back row contains: Ex Libris, Candamir, and Galaxy Trucker

Game night! Learning a new #boardgame - Role Player. Open to strategy tips. 😊 🎲

Dementia housing without locked wards? It's a small but growing movement Some senior living communities are caring for people with dementia alongside other residents, not segregated behind locked doors.

Some senior living communities are caring for people with dementia alongside other residents, not segregated behind locked doors. n.pr/4r59PgR

Let's finish out the weekend with these fabulous people who are bending the arc of the moral universe toward justice in the "Fearless" Starter Pack #2. go.bsky.app/JzboCVH

ADD SOUTHEASTERN GARDENER - thank you

Authors synthesize research on informal learning in health profession education. They ID a range of informal learning opportunities, situate these theoretically, & identify enablers & threats faculty can be intentional about addressing.

Great read for CSD faculty #SLPeeps #SoTLsky #MedEd #HigherEd

Enduring Connections and New Directions: Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders | Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.

This "represents an enrichment of our investigative approaches to capture the full complexity of human interaction.”

Read more about this exciting transition in this editorial by @jamieazios.bsky.social & consider submitting your #qualitative #ComDis #research to QRCDD.
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Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders Home | University of Toronto Press Welcome to Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders, published by University of Toronto Press. Access peer-reviewed articles online and find essential information about this hig...

Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders is now Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders (QRCDD). QRCDD aims to expand both #qualitative methodologies utilized & definitions of communication disorder & difference beyond traditional diagnostic labels. 1/2

Using Digital Technology to Stay Connected With Friends After Aphasia Purpose: Digital domains are becoming increasingly important in creating and sustaining relationships. The purpose of this study was to understan...

Understanding how people with aphasia use information and communication technology (e.g., smartphones, social media platforms) to stay connected is critical to developing components of clinical interventions focused on social relationships.

on.asha.org/3JfJAmm #SLPeeps

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years nature.com/articles/s44...

#COVID #coronavirus #dementia #health