Lucy Bryant

Machines Helping Humans: The Possibilities & Pitfalls of VR / AR in Speech Pathology - What’s Got Us Talking: A UTS Speech Pathology Podcast In speech pathology, the rapid evolution and implementation of artificial intelligence, particularly virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), opens up an amazing world of new opportunities for...

Technologies like #ExtendedReality and #ArtifiicialIntelligence change the ways that people communicate. By extension, ot also affects the way #SpeechPathology supports communication. It brings amazing opportunities and pitfalls. Learn more in #WhatsGotUsTalking

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I am still looking for any new sources on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquistion. If you know of any new papers, articles, blogs, websites, theses, or any other written sources, please let me know!! I want to read it all! DM me or email Lucy.Bryant@uts.edu.au

Seven people of different ages and cultural backgrounds say hello in different languages

Extending a warm welcome to all the #GoSHspeech Masters students joining @bsky.app for 2025 Inclusve Practice in Speech Pathology. Over the next 14 weeks, they will be sharing their learnings across social media to advocate and educate for #multilingual and Indigenous inclusion.
#BskySPEECHIES

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!

Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
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• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025

#aphasia

Here is a link to our (unfunded) Meta-Narrative Review on #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition. Do you know of any publications (text, in English, not social media, not vids) that we can check? If so, DM or email me at Lucy.Bryant@uts.edu.au www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis...

Lucy holds her new Apple Vision Pro device. She has a huge smile on her face.

Unboxing my new Apple Vision Pro and just a little bit excited! Time to explore some new possibilities for #ExtendedReality teaching, learning, assessment, therapy, and support. So many ideas, so little time #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #DigitalHealth

Our 10-15min online, anonymous survey on clinicians’ (and their assistants) and teachers’ views on #GestaltLanguageProcessing is still open.

It will close later in Jan - a month will be up by 20th Jan then we leave it open until responses wind down.

Feel free to share it!

redcap.link/GLP_NLA

A flyer advertises that research opportunity. The research is happening at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Adults woth aphasia can participate. They need to travel to the university. They will talk to the researchers on the phone first. Then they will try virtual reality. They will play 2 games and watch 2 videos. We will ask some questions. Contact Dr Lucy Bryant if you are interested or if you have questions. Lucy's email is Lucy.Bryant@uts.edu.au. Her phone number is 0295147189

Adults with #Aphasia, we want to know what you think of #VirtualReality. It's appearing more in rehabilitation, but do you like it? Does it work for you? Try it out and let us know! Please share with anyone you know in the Sydney (Australia) area.
#Stroke #BskySPEECHIES

Two columns of text one wit a header that says implicit grammar treatments followed by the words enhanced input + attentive listening and teh other that says explicit grammar treatments followed by meta skills+rules + production practice. Then several treatment types are listed after each one with short definitions and references.

Even though recast therapy is great for treating grammar in #DevLangDis, our lab takes a 'kitchen sink' approach when the focus is on something other than the intervention itself. There is growing evidence for explicit approaches. #SLPeeps Do you mix and match? How do you decide which to use when?

Yes. "Echolalia" is certainly something I haven't covered in enough detail in the past. But I've always included AAC as language expression in content and case examples. We learn about verbal, written, gestured (including signed) and tactile forms of language expression. All are language

Some importance here in emphasising phonology as the overlap between speech and language. I noted on clinic that the differences between phonological and articulatory difficulties are not always well understood

The Efficacy of Recasts in Language Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis This systematic review and meta-analysis critically evaluated the research evidence on the effectiveness of conversational recasts in grammatical development for children with language impairments. Tw...

I came across this gem yesterday on evidence for recasting as a method for modelling grammar pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Absolutely will strengthen this content. It is already covered, as it should be, but will be working hard to make these concepts more explicit. Open to other suggestions too from #BskySPEECHIES

Views on Augmented Reality and Neurodevelopmental Communication Disability: Survey of Parents, Educators, and Health Professionals - Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Purpose: The use of Augmented Reality (AR) in the field of neurodevelopmental communication disability is emergent and under-researched. The views of supporters on the use of AR by children with neuro...

New Paywalled: “Supporters of children with developmental communication disability view that AR may be a useful and motivational tool if it is affordable and implemented with training and technical support”. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@lucyebryant.bsky.social Ben Bailey, Jacob Decates

2025 will bring some more critical analysis and evaluation of #GLP to inform teaching. My curriculum update is already in progress. Strengthening content on #language, acquisition, communication beyond language, differences between processing and understanding and expression, and more!

Welcome to Aus! A day earlier than you thought, but a sunny way to start 2025

Tell us what you think of #GestaltLanguageProcessing #GLP and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition. How do you apply this approach (or not) in your practice? Take the 10-minute, anonymous, online survey. Exit any time. Please share with your networks! redcap.link/GLP_NLA
#BskySPEECHIES #OT #EduSky #autism

The brainstorm is happening. Open to ideas and suggestions.

I'd like to create an #AR choose-your-own-adventure clinical scenario. Some simulation. The possibilities are endless with #AppleVisionPro

A research flyer advertising the research. It says the research has ethical approval. The research aims to develop an assessment for communication using technology including email, text, social media, online shopping, etc. People with TBI, their family and speech pathologists can participate. You must be over 18 years. You will participate in an interview and surveys, or just surveys if you prefer. Payment of up to $150 is given for participation.

Reseatch participation opportunity for #TBI. We want to change the way communication and technology are assessed. How do you use tech? What #SLP services might help? See flyer for more. Please share with your networks. Contact for more information at sheree.c.lu@student.uts.edu.au. #BskySPEECHIES

Such interesting and valuable work. Do you think that Peters' 'gestalt language production' (she didn't mention processing) is more in line with earlier definitions formulaic language? Which still have shared, social, symbolic meaning

Mind the evidence gap : Caution over Gestalt Language Processing / Natural Language Acquisition - What’s Got Us Talking: The UTS Speech Pathology Podcast Recognising the rising popularity of GLP/NLA, we bring the results of a systematic review into the conversation and explore some reasons for its rapid growth despite the absence of research evidence. ...

PODCAST released Dec 17, 2024
HOST @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social
GUESTS @lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social
PRODUCER Laura Corrigan 2SER
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KEY PAPER doi.org/10.1007/s404... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#gestaltlanguageprocessing #naturallanguageacquisition

Note to self: proof-read my posts!!

An AI generated illustration of 9 smiling children from all over the world. They stand in a group under flags of many countries

I finished on clinic with another group of wonderful #slp2b this week. They had such diverse experiences of inclusive, multilingual speech and language assessment. We're always looking to enhance our #InclusivePractice. What are your top tips for assessing #multilingual kids, ##BskySPEECHIES?

I'm looking forward to delving deeper into all those other #GLP #NLA sources that aren't treatment research. The books, editorials and tutorials. They weren't included in the sustenance review. They will be included in our meta- narrative review. Coming 2025

"If your friend wants chippies, she has to pay for chippies" 😆

Ooh exciting — only one more day until “Bluey” (not really Bluey) podcast drops re #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition

“mind the evidence gap: caution on GLP/NLA”

@lucyebryant.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social

Will post the link tomorrow!

#WhatsGotUsTalking

Reminder:
🤔 Lived Experience Research CAN be included in a systematic review *if it exists*.
🎙️ A Systematic Review of the Literature is not a review of people's social media posts and podcasts.
👻 If research does not exist, it cannot be included in a review.

If we missed a study, tell us!

Prevalence of Echolalia in Autism: A Rapid Review of Current Findings and a Journey Back to Historical Data - Current Developmental Disorders Reports Purpose of Review The aim of this rapid review was to understand how current research describes and quantifies the prevalence of echolalia, generally described as the repetition of other’s speech, in ...

With extensive reading on #GLP #NLA, I kept seeing this stat: 85% of #autistic people use echolalia. That stat comes from a 1960s study that showed only 46% of the study sample (75% of the speaking kids) echoed. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@rebeccasutherland.bsky.social

So @lucyebryant.bsky.social and I would like to know —- for our narrative review - can you please help us?

⁉️ What “ingredients” of GLP/NLA approach are used in therapy?

⁉️ What outcomes: seen or measured?

We will think on your replies to help us look closely in books for those things.

In a systematic review of #GLP #NLA, qualitative data about lived experience is important, too. Treatment effectiveness matters, but so does the human experience and acceptability of the intervention or support. We didn't find any qualitative evidence either #BskySPEECHIES