Professor Leanne Togher

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

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...
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Thanks so much Caroline - I'm very honoured to receive the award of ASHA Fellow and look forward to going to Washington DC to share the experience with my wonderful international colleagues! @sydney.edu.au @warcusyd.bsky.social @abicommlab.bsky.social @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social

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The most clicked-on article from the August
@speechbite.bsky.social newsletter was a clinical practice guideline from Germany on interventions for children with #dld. speechbite.com/article/73438/ It's open access! #SLPeeps #SLP2B #SLT #bskySPEECHIES

Thanks so much for posting!! This is a great paper that has been a long time in the making and moves our field forward 🌟🌟🌟

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...
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North American Pilot of TBIconneCT: A Social Communication Intervention via Telehealth for Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Conversation Partners Purpose: The purpose of this pilot investigation was to identify formative feedback to guide the development of a North American version of the T...

Did you know that our #USA colleagues have adapted our #TBIConneCT #telehealth #communication training program for partners of ppl with #TBI for the North American context? @ajslps.bsky.social @uweauclaire.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @abicommlab.bsky.social

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Really looking forward to meeting with my colleagues in the #UK to discuss and learn and find out about latest advances in #CCD. The program looks excellent. Thanks for the kind invitation to speak at this meeting 🙏🙏🙏 @sydney.edu.au @brainandmindcentre.bsky.social @warcusyd.bsky.social

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📣 We have a full-time Lab manager role available!!

🗣️ Join us in the ABI Communication Lab team @sydney.edu.au & work on #DigitalHealth projects supporting inclusion after #AcquiredBrainInjury.

▶️ For more information & to apply: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Thanks to IBIA for the prestigious Jennett Plum Award for Distinguished Clinical Achievement in Brain Injury at the World Congress. I was pleased to acknowledge the @abicommlab.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au team and my many mentors and colleagues who have supported my clinical research career #IBIA2025

Thanks so much Amy!! It was a huge honour and I was so proud to acknowledge the brilliant work of the @abicommlab.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au team & the importance of #speechpathology #SLP in the management of communication disorders after #braininjury. It was also great to catch up with your work!!

📣 Calling on #SLPs 👈
We want to hear from #SLPs #SLTs about what you want from digital evidence tools to help you find research evidence easily. You're invited to participate in focus groups or an interview, register your interest here bit.ly/3D4QI2s #bskySPEECHIES @leannetogher.bsky.social

@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...

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📣 We have 3x3yr full-time postdocs available!!!!!!

🗣️ Join us in the ABI Communication Lab team @sydneyuni.bsky.social & work on #DigitalHealth projects supporting inclusion after #AcquiredBrainInjury.

▶️ For more information & to apply: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Wow!!!! Thanks everyone 😍

We now have over 4K people who have accessed interact-ABI-lity & over 500 who have accessed social-ABI-lity 🙌

Check out these FREE resources: abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/social-brain...

an interesting event happening at Health Wellbeing Care Hub

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#DigitalHealthWeek2025 Day 1 prize winners: Jing Hern Kevin Poh & Carine Chan

#DigitalHealthWeek2025 Day 2 prize winners: David Bui, Edwina Lamborn, & Rik Dawson

#DigitalHealthWeek2025 Day 3 prize winners: Daniel Rogers, Hayley Thomson, & Alice Graham

#DigitalHealthWeek2025 ePoster prize winners: Poorna Fernando, Josielli Comachio, & Asara Senaratne

CONGRATULATIONS to all of the #DigitalHealthWeek2025 prize winners 🙌🙌🙌

Very well deserved, I loved hearing about your research & interacting with everyone this week!!!!

Significant piece of work that is necessary to support communication partner training research in the field is #TBI . Special congrats to @NicholasBehn & @RachaelReedake on this methodically conducted research! @ABICommLab @CityLCS @syd_health @WARC_USYD @BrainMind_Usyd

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...

Learn more about a feasible method for rating conversations involving people with brain injury in under 30 min using the Adapted Kagan Scales. on.asha.org/3EjlSDi

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There's a new #DigitalHealthWeek2025 prize this year 🙌

@digitalhealthweek.bsky.social has just announced the SPARK prize to support EMCR attendees collaborate with another researcher they meet for the first time as part of #DigitalHealthWeek2025

More info: digitalhealthweek.com.au/spark/

Here is the order of events for the wonderful @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social
It’s hybrid so you can attend the live stream too. I’m looking forward to attending the @warcusyd.bsky.social hosted digital Health week event in person at Westmead on Wednesday!
digitalhealthweek.com.au/program

Listening to Prof @carolynday make opening remarks at the Digital Health Week 2025 which is in person @sydneyuni.bsky.social AND being live-streamed too. Great to hear about the breadth of the Faculty of Medicine and Health @digitalhealthweek.bsky.social

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The @nihr.bsky.social Fellowship enabled me visit Australia last year to network.

Thankfully hosted @leannetogher.bsky.social & @abicommlab.bsky.social @lissbee.bsky.social Rachael Rietdijk @petraavramovic.bsky.social @sophiebrassel.bsky.social @tusharprasad.bsky.social @elisebogart.bsky.social

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

We do have people with lived experience attend. And this one is international so we will have people attending from Europe, South America, UK, Canada, Asia big contingent from Australia too!

Good morning from The University of Sydney - took the long way to walk to work this morning - always something new and inspiring to see on this beautiful campus 😊@sydneyuni.bsky.social @abicommlab.bsky.social

Our telepsychiatry service for people with severe traumatic brain injury is now taking referrals from anyone in NSW thanks to funding from NSW Ministry of Health. See link for referral process @sydneyuni.bsky.social

braininjurypsychiatry.com.au/referral-pro...

Not long now until our amazing IBIA conference in Montreal Canada. The program has something for anyone working in the field of #BrainInjury #SocialCognition #CCD #ABI #TBI #STROKE #DisordersOfConsciousness #Rehabilitation. Come and join us!! braininjurycongress.org