Dr Liss (Melissa Brunner)

🎤 Professor Miranda Rose will be presenting at the 2025 #AustralianAphasiaAssociation National Conference. She is an internationally recognised #leader in #aphasiaresearch

📅 8–9 Nov 2025
📍 Australian Catholic University, North Sydney
👉 Register here: events.humanitix.com/australian-a...

Dr Liss Brunner will be presenting at this year's #AustralianAphasiaAssociation Conference, joined by #livedexperience presenters Jennifer Le and Josh Espinosa to share how people with #aphasia use social media

📅 8–9 Nov 2025, North Sydney
👉 Register here: events.humanitix.com/australian-a...

🎤 Emeritus Professor Linda Worrall will be presenting at the 2025 #AustralianAphasiaAssociation National Conference. She is a world leader in #aphasia research and #rehabilitation.

📅 8–9 Nov 2025
📍 Australian Catholic University, North Sydney
👉 Register here: events.humanitix.com/australian-a...

🎉 Here's an overview of the upcoming #AustralianAphasiaAssociation National Conference!

📅 Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 November 2025
📍 Australian Catholic University, North Sydney
👉 Get your tickets here events.humanitix.com/australian-a...

We can’t wait to #connect and share ideas in #aphasia support ✨

Training Courses and Events Upcoming Better Conversations events are advertised here. The Better Conversations conference is held every two years. We run communication partner training approximately twice per year.

Just over two weeks until our Better Conversations course in Sydney & three weeks until Perth.

Shouting out to all Speech Pathologists in NSW and WA- we’d love to see you.

And there are places still available!!!

Sign up: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Digital Health Week 2026

🚨 Save the Date!
Digital Health Week 2026 is coming to Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney!
🌐 Theme: Digital Futures: Rethinking Health and Care
📅 3-5 February 2026
👀 Watch this space for registration details and speaker announcements coming soon!
🔗 www.digitalhealthweek.com.au
#DigitalHealthWeek2026

Oh I love the term “workslop” in this context!

TBH: It's pretty awesome getting to mentor wonderful ECR colleagues

🌟 Proud moment for our students!

During placement, #students teamed up with people living with #dementia & #primaryprogressiveaphasia to co-design this resource for #DementiaAwarenessMonth:

🔗 lnkd.in/gCgq4nXU

Share to spark conversation, raise #awareness, & amplify voices with #livedexperience! 💛

✨ Webinar Recording Live! ✨

We’re still smiling after Friday’s #AskTheExpert session on #socialmedia & #aphasia 💛

We heard from researchers Jennifer Lee, Josh Espinosa, & @abicommlab.bsky.social members @lissbee.bsky.social & Megan Trebilcock!

💬 Watch here! lnkd.in/gdkPGn_7

#BrainInjury

#Perfectionism: Strive for progress - not perfection.
Stop trying to make that paragraph perfect. Make it better and get it in.
Stop waiting for the perfect idea - work with what you've got and get on with it.
Stop waiting for the perfect time - make a start now.

Mon 14 July, 4:00–5:30pm AEST

Clinical Bite with A/Prof Anita Wong & Honours grad Joyce Cai on working with #multilingualfamilies and being #culturallysensitive.

How can we better support families from #diversebackgrounds? Hear key strategies for culturally responsive practice.

lnkd.in/ghrPmS-e

Had a little break from the socials - because everything - what have I missed?

Calling all UK SLTs working in CCD & TBI! Take part in research survey below!

Share widely!

If you have more than you need, build a longer table - not a higher fence.

Went down a beautiful rabbit hole this morning reading this & beyond, thank you @mariapopova.bsky.social 🤗

Presenter in front of PowerPoint.

Keynote 4 @icpla2025.bsky.social - Athanasios Karasimos talking my language. Board games great to use in teaching as low-cost and easily adapted! #icpla2025

A Venn diagram on a green background shows two overlapping circles. The left blue circle is labeled "Hearing Loss" and the right orange circle is labeled "Vision Loss." The overlapping area is purple, representing "Deafblindness," with a yellow arrow pointing to it. Below, text reads: "International Day of Deafblindness."

#Deafblindness ≠ invisible

Today is #InternationalDayOfDeafblindness. Let’s commit to:

🔹Making health information accessible in all formats
🔹Training health workers in inclusive communication 🔹Listening to and amplifying the voices of the deafblind community

👉 bit.ly/45KHBjq #HealthForAll

The Peer Effect Is “Utterly Profound”: A Social-ABI-lity Pilot Study of a Multicomponent, Peer-Moderated Social Media Skills Intervention for People With Acquired Brain Injury Purpose: People who have an acquired brain injury (ABI) experience challenges in using social media. However, rehabilitation clinicians report fe...

In @ashajournals.bsky.social 🆓🔓@lissbee.bsky.social Rietdijk Southwell @leannetogher.bsky.social et al The Peer Effect Is "Utterly Profound": A Social-ABI-lity Pilot Study of a Multicomponent, Peer-Moderated Social Media Skills Intervention for People w #ABI. doi.org/10.1044/2024...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Glad I’m not the only one that does this on occasion! 🤗🤗🤗

YouTube video by Stroke Foundation Mental health after stroke

Brilliant video on mental health after stroke by the Stroke Foundation 💙 #aphasia #stroke
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ag...

Members of the ABI #CommLab recently published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology:

The Peer Effect Is “Utterly Profound”: A Social-ABI-lity Pilot Study of a Peer-Moderated Social Media Skills Intervention for People With #AcquiredBrainInjury

To read more: lnkd.in/gE-ka5Ps

#FinancialReview: 'Stunt double' helps university teachers clone themselves

Dr Petra Avramovic, developed a Cogniti chatbot that acts as the parent of a child with a stutter. Students converse with Cogniti, giving advice on their clinical #communicationskills.

www.afr.com/technology/stunt-...

Convers-ABI-lity is a 10-week program for people with #ABI and their #communicationpartners to build #conversationstogether. It includes self-guided activities and video calls with a speech pathologist.

For more information, contact Dr Rachael Rietdijk: rachael.rietdijk@sydney.edu.au

Great event coming up! Hosted by the DHIN ECR Community Working Group 🙌

#DigitalHealth Dialogues: In Conversation with Dr Simon Kos

🗓 Wed 11 June, 3–5 pm
📍Susan Wakil Health Building, University of Sydney
🥂 Networking + refreshments

RSVP by May 28: www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-he...

Social Communication Implementable and Applicable Lens: A Framework for Addressing Assessment of Social Communication Purpose: Keegan, Hoepner, et al. (2023) developed a framework for social, cognitive-communication assessment, which was intended to make social c...

In @ashajournals.bsky.social Keegan LC Hoepner JK @leannetogher.bsky.social Kennedy M Bogart E @lissbee.bsky.social MacDonald S 2025. Social Communication Implementable and Applicable Lens: A Framework for Addressing Assessment of Social Communication. AJSLP. doi.org/10.1044/2025...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Read some of their fab papers:

Lo et al. (2024) “Stay tuned”: an exploratory content and thematic analysis of brain injury videos on YouTube doi.org/10.1080/0963...

Tint et al. (2025) Healing is a community: an exploratory study of #TraumaticBrainInjury content on Instagram doi.org/10.1080/0963...

Screenshot of the poster presented, key info is presented as a TL;DR statement: TL;DR People lose many of their social connections after an ABI. They continue to use social media after their injury yet receive little support to use it safely. This research aimed to co-create a social media communication assessment tool to support people in setting and achieving social media goals in rehabilitation. We developed the Social Media and Online Communication Assessment (SOCA) tool, the first of its kind to guide clinicians in supporting use of social media for communication, participation, and inclusion after ABI.

TL;DR
People lose social connections after an ABI. They use social media yet receive little support to use it. We developed the Social Media and Online Communication Assessment (SOCA) tool, to guide clinicians in supporting use of social media for communication, participation, & inclusion after ABI

Screenshot of the poster presented, key info is presented as a TL;DR statement: People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) can feel lonely due to changes in cognitive-communication. Social media helps them connect but can be challenging to use. People used Instagram and YouTube to: Educate others; Share experiences; Promote services; and Motivate and support. YouTube focused on telling personal recovery stories, while Instagram emphasised community and overcoming challenges. Social media can reduce isolation for people with TBI. Health professionals should support its safe and effective use in rehabilitation.

TL;DR
People with #TraumaticBrainInjury used Instagram & YouTube to: Educate; Share; Promote; Motivate & Support. YouTube posts told personal stories, while Instagram emphasised community & overcoming challenges. Health professionals should support safe & effective use of social media in rehab.

Screenshot of the poster presented, key info is presented as a TL;DR statement: People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) can feel lonely due to changes in cognitive-communication. Social media helps them connect but can be challenging to use. People used Instagram and YouTube to: Educate others; Share experiences; Promote services; and Motivate and support. YouTube focused on telling personal recovery stories, while Instagram emphasised community and overcoming challenges. Social media can reduce isolation for people with TBI. Health professionals should support its safe and effective use in rehabilitation.

Screenshot of the poster presented, key info is presented as a TL;DR statement: TL;DR People lose many of their social connections after an ABI. They continue to use social media after their injury yet receive little support to use it safely. This research aimed to co-create a social media communication assessment tool to support people in setting and achieving social media goals in rehabilitation. We developed the Social Media and Online Communication Assessment (SOCA) tool, the first of its kind to guide clinicians in supporting use of social media for communication, participation, and inclusion after ABI.

Recently got to present (at the IBIA World Congress) some awesome work by past Honours students (Charlene Lo, Sonia Tint, & Janet Tedjasasmita) on exploring #BrainInjury related posts on social media & developing an assessment tool to guide clinicians in supporting use of social media after ABI 🧵