Nicholas Behn

So proud of our codesigners & what we achieved over the last few months.

So excited to start write everything up and start to share in January!

Rachael Rietdijk, Emma Power, @leannetogher.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social Jane Marshall, Penny Prodger

Feasibility and Reliability of the Adapted Kagan Scales for Rating Conversations for People With Acquired Brain Injury: A Multiphase Iterative Mixed-Methods Design Purpose: Rating the quality of conversations can assess communication skills in both people with acquired brain injury and their communication pa...

Our new paper on assessing conversations after brain injury is now OPEN ACCESS 📝🗣️

✅ 5-min conversation ratings are more reliable & practical than 10-min ones
✅ MPC & MSC scales showed moderate reliability
✅ Scoring takes <30 min

👉 Read here:
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I would most definitely consider it depending on the amount of time involved

I didn’t but on my list. I’m increasingly frustrated by the lack of understanding and portrayal by book authors and filmmakers alike. At the very least ask us to advise appropriately before an author writes or an actor acts.

@primevideouk.bsky.social #TheGirlfriend enjoyed the series but disappointed by lack of portrayal of cognitive & communication impairments post injury. Post injury people have impaired social communication skills & significant retrograde amnesia! We need to do better to raise public awareness!

@carlamagdalani.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @katerinahilari.bsky.social @driankellar.bsky.social @leannetogher.bsky.social

This week we ran co-design sessions in Birmingham & London with people with brain injury, family members & speech therapists. Together we explored mechanisms & techniques to support communication training shaped by lived experience

Www.blogs.city.ac.uk/tango

#CoDesign #BrainInjury #Communication

Join our next ICAP network event on 1st April. Looking forward to hearing from Katie and Luiza. @jeanrutter.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @cathyoff.bsky.social

Development of the Guide to Disseminating Research (GuiDiR): A consolidated framework Less than one third of research evidence is translated into policy or practice. Knowledge translation requires effective dissemination, adoption and f…

We're increasingly ensuring that dissemination is a standalone workpackage in our grants. Work led by the team in Leicester during our NIHR PGfAR resulted in the GuiDiR dissemination framework, which provides a structure for dissemination activities : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK-wide aphasia project awarded £3.8 million to improve post-stroke communication | City St George's, University of London Project plans to co-design and evaluate a novel communication partner training (CPT) programme

I’ve not posted in ages but this is newsworthy - I’m delighted we’ve been awarded funding for APT for this incredible project supporting communication for families with aphasia - leading with Prof Rebecca Palmer and a stellar team!!!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

So great to have you at both conferences and to spend time with you!

And a few more memories and posters of the symposium. The other keynotes Jacinta Douglas and Susan Howell reminded us of connection, belonging and asserting our role as SLT!

At the #CCDSymp2025 I presented on communication partner training, dating & creating collaborations. So many amazing talks, posters and opportunities for networking with therapists @leannetogher.bsky.social reminding us of the words of the late Audrey Holland & stories of Mark Ylvisaker

Jacinta Douglas is opening the 4th CCD Symposium to almost 167 attendees in person and online.

What is meaning to you? Good starting reflection as to how to build connection & relationships post-injury #CCDSymp2025

🧠 Our course on project-based intervention for people with brain injury is back for 2025!

Learn how to use this approach + get practical resources to apply in your service. For SLTs, OTs, neuropsychs & more.

📅 Starts 29 Sept
🔗 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

#Rehab #BrainInjury #CPD

❗️Reminder to register

🚨 Free SLT implementing research into practice event! Join us 20th June for a showcase of SLT research

@CityStGeorges
— hybrid event for clinicians & researchers alike.

Register & view the programme here: 📷 citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-event……

Send to all!

On behalf of Simon Grobler Claire Farrington-Douglas & our events organizer MERS Events we look forward to seeing you in Coventry

The programme of oral, lightning and poster presentations available to view

Thanks to our sponsors acquireSLT, Rose SLT, Linguistic Redolutions, Communication Rehabiliation, Speech Therapy NE, Into Speech, Relational Communication Practice & @abicen.bsky.social

The symposium in cognitive communication disorders is open to anyone interested in this field on the 12th & 13th June this year in Coventry.

A hybrid event with keynotes Jacinta Douglas, Susan Howell & @leannetogher.bsky.social

Register today: mers.cventevents.com/event/4thCCD/c…

🚨 Free SLT implementing research into practice event!

Join us 20th June for a showcase of SLT research @citystgeorges.bsky.social — hybrid event for clinicians & researchers alike.

Register & view the programme here:
🔗 citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-event…
#SLT #ClinicalResearch #CityStGeorges

The impact of acquired communication impairments on sexuality and intimacy: A scoping review Background Communication is critical to sexuality and sexual health. It is therefore reasonable to assume that acquired communication impairments would impact sexuality, but research is sparse. The .....

Our new open-access study highlights the impact of acquired communication disorders on sexuality & intimacy.
@nicholasbehn.bsky.social

We offer actionable recommendations for researchers and SLPs. Let's break the silence! #Sexuality #SLT #SLP #Aphasia #BrainInjury #stroke
doi.org/10.1111/1460...

Playing with an AI image generator using my publication list #artificalintelligence #AI #SLT

There is much to learn and consider about the clinical utility of AI but so much potential as it evolves at alarming pace.

YouTube video by Science Animated Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System for people with cerebral palsy

Great to see this video by @dianejsellers.bsky.social & team on #EDACS #Dysphagia #BSkySpeechies

youtu.be/woa7TGbwb0Y?...

Advert for aphasia research

📢 Can you support aphasia research?

Face-to-face And Telehealth Equivalence of assessments in Aphasia (FATE-A) is a research project *improving access to healthcare*

This is the *final month* of recruitment

We are hoping to see 100 people with aphasia

More info: blogs.city.ac.uk/FATE-A/take-...

@citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social is hosting a FREE hybrid impact event for researchers & clinicians to learn ab exciting new developments in adults & paediatrics.

👉 SAVE THE DATE - 20th June 2025!

Final programme to be shared soon but sign-up early: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Feasibility and Reliability of the Adapted Kagan Scales for Rating Conversations for People With Acquired Brain Injury: A Multiphase Iterative Mixed-Methods Design Purpose: Rating the quality of conversations can assess communication skills in both people with acquired brain injury and their communication pa...

Last week I have a talk to SW #SLTs on using conversation to assess & manage people who sustain a brain injury

How do people assess conversation? Is it a routine part of your assessment?

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It was a pleasure having you spend a couple of months with us Nick!! The time passed too quickly and we wish you were still here with us! I enjoy being a mentor on your @tango-abi.bsky.social project very much!! Such a brilliant program of work which will benefit ppl with #TBI worldwide

From Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne all these people & institutions made me feel incredibly welcome & fortunate to research in such a vibrant field with so many knowledgeable & inspirational people. Thank you.

The future research field for communication disorders after brain injury is looking bright.