Bronwyn Hemsley
@bronwynhemsley.bsky.social
Bring me the evidence.
Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
#Dysphagia #AugComm #AAC #Disability #CommunicationRights #Mealtimes #QualityOfLife #VR #AR #GenAI #AssistiveTech
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Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
#Dysphagia #AugComm #AAC #Disability #CommunicationRights #Mealtimes #QualityOfLife #VR #AR #GenAI #AssistiveTech
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A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
July 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A classic hallmark of pseudoscience is when proponents reverse the burden of proof on skeptics to prove them wrong rather than having to provide evidence to support their own claims.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Hitchens’s razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
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🧵🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. #Brava @carorowland.bsky.social et al. See that, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language
acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing,
and artificial intelli...
www.cell.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🧵🆓🔓🦋 #bskySPEECHIES. #Brava @carorowland.bsky.social et al. See that, @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social @katharinebeals.bsky.social Not a gestalt language processor in site, no mention of analytic language learners because it's all strictly rooted in empiricism!
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Delighted to be working with @uofglasgowsldo.bsky.social - taking the resource we developed for #cancerscreening research & turning it into a practical tool for practitioners. We will work with 10 people supporting screening with people with #learningdisability . Looking forward to their feedback
June 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Delighted to be working with @uofglasgowsldo.bsky.social - taking the resource we developed for #cancerscreening research & turning it into a practical tool for practitioners. We will work with 10 people supporting screening with people with #learningdisability . Looking forward to their feedback
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What an absolute treat to have @maggiebeer and @jadecartwright.bsky.social talking about the culture of care and meals in aged care here at our annual @speechpathologyaustralia conference #slps #speechies
June 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
What an absolute treat to have @maggiebeer and @jadecartwright.bsky.social talking about the culture of care and meals in aged care here at our annual @speechpathologyaustralia conference #slps #speechies
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💭 🤔 @katharinebeals.bsky.social @bronwynhemsley.bsky.social @lucyebryant.bsky.social
www.unicef.org/child-rights... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps #UDHR
www.unicef.org/child-rights... 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps #UDHR
June 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Ahoy! Want to learn more about blinded outcome assessment through history? Read my essay at www.jameslindlibrary.org/essays-essay... #DoubleBlind #EBHC #EBM #RCT #FairTests
April 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Ahoy! Want to learn more about blinded outcome assessment through history? Read my essay at www.jameslindlibrary.org/essays-essay... #DoubleBlind #EBHC #EBM #RCT #FairTests
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Are you an AAC user/comm partner? The AAC Oral History project needs you!🫵
A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC!
Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz
A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC!
Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz
April 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Are you an AAC user/comm partner? The AAC Oral History project needs you!🫵
A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC!
Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz
A study is being conducted at Newcastle University into user history of AAC devices/services. This is an opportunity to share your lived experience and help build a picture of the history of AAC!
Read more: buff.ly/3RPhuz
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If you're disabled, you are more likely to read books by able bodied writers that are inspiration p0rn or else detail how your life is ruined by disability, than books by actually disabled writers, as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social wrote in Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Disabled Authors Deserve, and Demand, More
Author and activist Alice Wong reflects on disability representation in publishing.
www.publishersweekly.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If you're disabled, you are more likely to read books by able bodied writers that are inspiration p0rn or else detail how your life is ruined by disability, than books by actually disabled writers, as @sfdirewolf.bsky.social wrote in Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Please spend 10 minutes helping this honours student project
Speechie in Australia? Do you work with kids with #cerebralPalsy? @sydneyuni Honours student needs you to answer a survey.
sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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March 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Please spend 10 minutes helping this honours student project
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My 9yo, penguin-loving daughter helped with this one.
April 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My 9yo, penguin-loving daughter helped with this one.
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Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force
April 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force
Did anyone attend the UK and Ireland Facebook group meeting last night about our #GLP #GestaltLanguageProcessing webinar for Irish Association of SLTs next Monday morning? How many were there strategising/freaking out?
Over 200 registered for our talk!!
There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA
Over 200 registered for our talk!!
There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA
April 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Did anyone attend the UK and Ireland Facebook group meeting last night about our #GLP #GestaltLanguageProcessing webinar for Irish Association of SLTs next Monday morning? How many were there strategising/freaking out?
Over 200 registered for our talk!!
There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA
Over 200 registered for our talk!!
There is no research evidence for #GLP #NLA
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“After this presentation, I feel more confident caring for #autistic patients”: The impact of neurodivergent doctors educating hospital staff about #neurodiversity. #autism Thanks @jodeeslt.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#medicaleducation, #healthcareimprovement, #healthequity
#medicaleducation, #healthcareimprovement, #healthequity
(PDF) “After this presentation, I feel more confident caring for autistic patients”: The impact of neurodivergent doctors educating hospital staff about neurodiversity
PDF | Guidelines for professionals practising in healthcare settings recommend that autistic people seeking care should receive neurodiversity-affirming... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net
March 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“After this presentation, I feel more confident caring for #autistic patients”: The impact of neurodivergent doctors educating hospital staff about #neurodiversity. #autism Thanks @jodeeslt.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#medicaleducation, #healthcareimprovement, #healthequity
#medicaleducation, #healthcareimprovement, #healthequity
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Here is a sequence of my friend the great blue heron (who I still need to name) preparing their trout for consumption. I crossed-checked a scar on its beak near its eye with a picture from two weeks ago and it matched. This heron is not scared of humans and fishes with me standing 15-feet away.
March 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Here is a sequence of my friend the great blue heron (who I still need to name) preparing their trout for consumption. I crossed-checked a scar on its beak near its eye with a picture from two weeks ago and it matched. This heron is not scared of humans and fishes with me standing 15-feet away.
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A great blue heron perches on the roots of a tree fallen over into the pond at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.
March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A great blue heron perches on the roots of a tree fallen over into the pond at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado.
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does anyone know how to make money as a respected writer and designer who has published multiple books and had stuff shown in festivals around the world and given keynote talks and things of that nature. my mom is retiring this year with basically no savings and i want to be able to help support her
March 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
does anyone know how to make money as a respected writer and designer who has published multiple books and had stuff shown in festivals around the world and given keynote talks and things of that nature. my mom is retiring this year with basically no savings and i want to be able to help support her
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#ResearchTuesday!
#JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. at.asha.org/Ak
@sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps
#JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. at.asha.org/Ak
@sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps
Measuring Intentional Communication in Infants at Elevated Likelihood of Autism: Validity, Reliability, and Responsiveness of a Novel Coding Scale
Purpose: Intentional communication acts, or purposefully directed vocalizations
and gestures, are particularly difficult for infants at elevated ...
at.asha.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#ResearchTuesday!
#JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. at.asha.org/Ak
@sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps
#JSLHR study is an important first step toward validating the IC Coding Scale, which measures/tracks intentional communication behaviors in infants at elevated likelihood for #autism. at.asha.org/Ak
@sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #SLPeeps
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Researchers examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to SLP undergraduate students using a high-cost, ready-made endoscopy training model versus a low-cost, 3D-printed model.
Nasopharyngoscopic Velopharyngeal Port Function Assessment: A Randomized Comparative Trial of 3D-Printed Versus Ready-Made Models
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic
velopharyngeal port assessment training given to spe...
on.asha.org
March 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Researchers examine the feasibility and effectiveness of nasopharyngoscopic velopharyngeal port assessment training given to SLP undergraduate students using a high-cost, ready-made endoscopy training model versus a low-cost, 3D-printed model.
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Really lovely to be asked to share about all I’ve learnt from the literature, fab SLTs in my survey and some amazing family careers & children. 👇🏼👇🏽
Free @manmetuni.bsky.social #communication #disability #research #webinar with the brilliant @sallymorganslt.bsky.social presenting 'Safe, Efficient & Enjoyable Mealtimes for families of #children with #neurodevelopmental #dysphagia’ 08/04/25 16.30-17.30 GMT+1 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Join conversation
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March 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Really lovely to be asked to share about all I’ve learnt from the literature, fab SLTs in my survey and some amazing family careers & children. 👇🏼👇🏽
And what about empty (not saying false, but potentially) claims about research having been conducted on an intervention - with no evidence provided for this - and people then implementing the intervention at $$$ on the basis of those claims?
I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.
I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.
Nham Tran UTS @aunz.theconversation.com "Fewer than 20% of all retractions are due to honest mistakes. Researchers usually contact the publisher to correct errors when they are detected, with no major consequences". The rest arise from researchers behaving badly. theconversation.com/scientific-m...
Scientific misconduct is on the rise. But what exactly is it?
In 2023, more than 10,000 research papers were retracted because of scientific misconduct. But it’s not always deliberate.
theconversation.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
And what about empty (not saying false, but potentially) claims about research having been conducted on an intervention - with no evidence provided for this - and people then implementing the intervention at $$$ on the basis of those claims?
I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.
I’d say it is never too late to retract empty claims.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Adele’s excellent and truly disturbing Four Corners story on childcare on Monday night has sparked a NSW inquiry. In August, Four Corners will have been holding truth to power for 64 years. We are grateful for your support.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
NSW government to launch inquiry into troubled childcare sector
A parliamentary inquiry has been called into the troubled childcare sector following a landmark ABC investigation into serious safety breaches in the industry.
www.abc.net.au
March 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Adele’s excellent and truly disturbing Four Corners story on childcare on Monday night has sparked a NSW inquiry. In August, Four Corners will have been holding truth to power for 64 years. We are grateful for your support.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
What is the latest evidence on #GLPNLA #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition in autism with minimally or non-speaking children or adults?
If it works, why are there no papers months after our review?
Do you know of any studies?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If it works, why are there no papers months after our review?
Do you know of any studies?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Systematic Review of Interventions Based on Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA): Clinical Implications of Absence of Evidence and Cautions for Clinicians and Parents...
Purpose of the Review This systematic review aimed to determine whether interventions related to Gestalt Language Processing and Natural Language Acquisition (GLP/NLA) are effective for individuals wi...
link.springer.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
What is the latest evidence on #GLPNLA #GestaltLanguageProcessing and #NaturalLanguageAcquisition in autism with minimally or non-speaking children or adults?
If it works, why are there no papers months after our review?
Do you know of any studies?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
If it works, why are there no papers months after our review?
Do you know of any studies?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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We are very excited to be launching a network for UK professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis
forms.gle/4Z8HvhR7t1zg...
Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis
forms.gle/4Z8HvhR7t1zg...
Working with Adults with DLD network
NAPLIC is planning on starting a network for professionals who work with adults with DLD. We want to know your views so that we build them into our plans.
Network meetings will be termly, online and f...
forms.gle
March 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We are very excited to be launching a network for UK professionals who work with adults with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis
forms.gle/4Z8HvhR7t1zg...
Let us shape it by completing this short survey. Also share with colleagues in adult services. #DevLangDis
forms.gle/4Z8HvhR7t1zg...
59 of my articles being used to train Meta’s AI … another impact metric if it means people asking AI questions get research-based answers.
(59 from one search of my full name, not a comprehensive search).
#WhyWeWrite
(59 from one search of my full name, not a comprehensive search).
#WhyWeWrite
March 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
59 of my articles being used to train Meta’s AI … another impact metric if it means people asking AI questions get research-based answers.
(59 from one search of my full name, not a comprehensive search).
#WhyWeWrite
(59 from one search of my full name, not a comprehensive search).
#WhyWeWrite