Jen Thomson

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The requirements, the relationships, and the rules: experiences and perceptions of how time is spent supporting recovery on a stroke rehabilitation unit for stroke survivors with aphasia Stroke survivors with aphasia experience a range of challenges during hospital-based stroke rehabilitation. These include limited rehabilitative activities and difficulties interacting with healthc...

Pleased to share our paper published online today!

Highlighting the #stroke rehab unit experiences of stroke survivors with #aphasia
@lindseythiel.bsky.social @basaphasia.bsky.social @clinacslt.bsky.social

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Priming Adjuncts in Sentence and Discourse Production in Neurotypical Adults and Persons With Aphasia Purpose: Although optional elements of speech, speakers frequently use adjunct phrases (e.g., on the rug, by the weekend) to enrich message conte...

Study sought to improve production of locative adjuncts in sentence & discourse tasks in persons w/ aphasia using implicit structural priming. They examined what factors impact degrees of structural priming effects. https://on.asha.org/4pft8SP @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social

Clinical Effectiveness of the Comprehensive, High-Dose Aphasia Treatment Program for People With Poststroke Aphasia Purpose: Intensive comprehensive aphasia programs (ICAPs) are a novel service delivery model incorporating best practice principles in aphasia re...

#JSLHR study evaluated the feasibility & effectiveness of the comprehensive, high-dose aphasia treatment (CHAT) program, a modified-ICAP, when implemented by a public rehabilitation facility in Brisbane, Australia. https://on.asha.org/4o1wLL9

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This image shows details about the paper linked in the post. It was published in the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, and the title of the article is, "Electroencephalographic Phase Synchrony Index as a Biomarker of Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery."

Authors examined if phase synchrony index (PSI) from resting-state EEG could predict aphasia recovery after #stroke. PSI, particularly inter-temporal PSI, may reflect recovery-related changes in networks post-stroke and could be a biomarker of aphasia recovery.

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PhD application deadline Dec 15th

Excited to bring on a mentee to advance our precision rehabilitation of anomia research at the intersection of #cogsci and #aphasia

Feasibility of Auditory-Perceptual Rating of Four Dimensions of Connected Speech in Aphasia Purpose: The purpose of this preliminary research study was to evaluate the feasibility of directly rating four dimensions of connected speech in...

Directly rating 4 key dimensions w/ an auditory-perceptual approach shows promise as a highly efficient way to analyze connected speech in aphasia; more work will be necessary to develop this approach for clinical applications. https://on.asha.org/3LtXbb7 @sigperspectives.bsky.social #SLPeeps

Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking For 150 years, Broca's area has defined speech production. Now scientists have discovered a second parallel system that controls the melody and rhythm of how we speak and sing.

Beyond Broca: The Two Routes to Speaking. My new
@psychtoday.bsky.social essay excerpted and adapted from Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language, forthcoming this month @mitpress.bsky.social.
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Workplace Reentry for Adults With Aphasia: Understanding Definitions and Motivations Purpose: Research has shown that individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after their stroke. While individuals living with aphasia want...

Individuals with poststroke aphasia face job loss after stroke. This article from #ASHASIG2 shows how SLPs can guide conversations and support adults with aphasia who wish to return to work https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00021 #SLPeeps #SLP2Be

Validity and Reliability of the Transactional EXchanges in Texting for Aphasia Rating Scale Purpose: Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia (PWA). Given the chronicity of aphasia and the ...

Text messaging is an increasingly relevant rehabilitation target for people with aphasia. The validity and reliability of the Transactional EXchanges in Texting for Aphasia (TEXT-A) rating scale are evaluated in this recent #JSLHR study.

https://on.asha.org/4qPiILu

Lippersley Pike. 1767! Following the old ways. I guess people were crossing this landscape before it became a grouse moor desert ... #moorland #Yorkshire

The October @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter is out now: bit.ly/3WyBMQ8 This issue covers Rx for child language, literacy, adult language, dysphagia, disability, and paediatric feeding. SIX of the papers are open access! #SLPeeps #SLP #SLT #wespeechies #speechbite #bskySPEECHIES

Structural Priming Treatment in Aphasia: The Role of Lexical and Abstract Syntactic Representations Purpose: Sentence production is impaired in many persons with aphasia (PWA). However, few effective treatments for sentence production exist. Rec...

Study supports structural priming as an effective sentence production treatment for persons w/#aphasia, especially when verbs are not matched between primes & target. https://on.asha.org/47u4q9Y

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DW. This page expands on two Clinical Rehabilitation articles: doi.org/10.1177/0269... and doi.org/10.1177/0269..., which are on Rehabilitation Thinking and a General Theory of Rehabilitation.

The Aphasia Brief COPE Purpose: Measures of coping that are accessible to persons with aphasia in both clinical and research environments are lacking. The current artic...

Measures of coping that are accessible to persons w/ aphasia are lacking. This #AJSLP article takes a step toward solving this problem by presenting a coping questionnaire, the Aphasia Brief COPE, standardized on persons w/ #aphasia. https://on.asha.org/47mSwid

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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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Watch our latest Seminars

Have you missed any of our seminars this year? Our YouTube chanel has recordings of our seminars available for you to watch anytime. Seminar 57 - How do speech pathologists deliver services to bi/multilingual adults with aphasia in a hospital and healthcare setting?…

The September @speechbite.bsky.social newsletter is out now: bit.ly/4nSwz1d This issue covers Rx for child speech and language, aphasia, dysarthria, dysphagia, disability, voice and fluency. SIX of the papers are open access! #SLPeeps #SLP #SLT #wespeechies #speechbite #bskySPEECHIES

"I felt really confident to enter the session": a pilot evaluation of a co-designed speech pathologist and interpreter collaboration tool for aphasia therapy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41017380/

Independent contributions of language activations in left and right temporal cortex to aphasia outcomes after stroke Recovery from aphasia after stroke is thought to depend on functional reorganization of language processing in surviving brain regions. Many studies have investigated this process, but progress has be...

Important paper by Sarah Schneck, @smwilson.bsky.social et al. "We found strong evidence that left posterior temporal cortex is the most critical region for language processing in post-stroke aphasia...right posterior temporal cortex made an independent contribution"

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Reading and Writing Rehabilitation With Individuals With Aphasia: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists' Clinical Practice and Perspectives Purpose: Most individuals with aphasia want to improve their reading and writing, yet these language skills are not typically prioritized in apha...

Researchers aimed to better understand SLPs' clinical practice re. rehabilitation of reading & writing w/ clients who have #aphasia. The research focused on improving educational training opportunities & access to literacy resources for SLPs. https://on.asha.org/3VscG55 @sigperspectives.bsky.social

Influence of Swallowing Function, Aphasia and High-Level Language Impairment on Discharge Destination Acutely Post-Thrombectomy Purpose: This study aimed to describe the incidence of aphasia, high-level language impairment, and swallowing impairment in patients post-stroke...

Researchers describe the incidence of aphasia, high-level language impairment, and swallowing impairment in patients post-stroke treated with mechanical thrombectomy.

https://on.asha.org/3KlKbU6

Naming practice effects and inconsistencies relate to treatment outcome in people with aphasia Intra-individual variability in language performance has been proposed as a factor associated with treatment outcomes in chronic aphasia. However, the…

New work on aphasia treatment outcome from Janina Wilmskoetter and the CSTAR team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aphasia in South Asian languages (ASAL) project: a protocol of connected speech tasks for investigating cross-linguistic grammatical profiles in aphasia for South Asian languages Languages vary in their syntactic (e.g. word order in sentences), lexical (e.g. presence of specific word classes), and morphological (e.g. inflectional or derivational forms of words) properties. ...

So honored to contribute to this important work and push forward #discourse research for underrepresented aphasia populations!

Congratulations to all my co-authors and the incredible ASAL team!

Our paper is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for our next Seminar -24th Sept 2025 at 4pm

“How do speech pathologists deliver services to bi/multilingual adults with aphasia in a hospital and healthcare setting?”
Presentation by: Samantha Siyambalapitiya

Register now for your free Zoom link - latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The effectiveness of interventions to support informal stroke carers: a systematic review Stroke affects one in four adults in the UK, with over a third relying on informal carers. The burden of care can have detrimental effects on the mental and physical health of carers, which may imp...

Out now via Open Access: The effectiveness of interventions to support informal stroke carers: a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When Language and Cognition Collide: Treating Aphasia + CCD after TBI Presented by Jude Berraondo SLT. Workshop including key principles of treatment, practical therapy strategies and real-life case examples.

Our next study ½ day via Zoom: "When Language and Cognition Collide: treating co-occurring Aphasia + CCD after TBI" presented by Jude Berraondo SLT. Key principles, practical therapy, case examples, application to your own setting. 12th Nov, 2-5pm. £5. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-langu...

This image provides details about the article linked in the post. It was published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, and the title is, "Sleep Following a Stroke: Multimodal Evaluation of Sleep Health and Disruptions and Impact on Recovery During Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation".

#Sleep health is poor in acute inpatient #rehabilitation after #stroke but improves over time. Improved sleep quality was associated w/ ⬇️ overnight activity & ⬆️ heart rate. Poor initial sleep quality & cognitive status were associated w/ ⬆️ overnight disruptions.

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Participatory Development of a Speech-Language Telerehabilitation Intervention Combined With Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Qualitative Study Purpose: Intensive speech-language therapy (SLT) delivered as telerehabilitation in combination with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDC...

Researchers aimed to involve stakeholders in the development of a novel approach combining remotely supervised but independently self-administered home-based transcranial direct current stimulation with an intensive aphasia telerehabilitation.

https://on.asha.org/4n166y9

Huge thanks to Abi Roper, BAS, and the Dundee aphasia community for a fantastic conference! Grateful for the chance to present key findings from NIHR-funded HARP Aphasia Study about using smart camera tech in therapy. @basaphasia.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @abracabadger.com @vjoffe.bsky.social