Jen Thomson

Effects of Combining Modified Response Elaboration Training, Semantic Feature Analysis, and Arm Ability Training on Cognitive, Language, and Motor Recovery in Poststroke Broca's Aphasia Purpose: Stroke survivors often face problems in language, motor, and cognitive skills because the neural networks for these functions overlap. C...

Stroke survivors often face problems in language, motor, & cognitive skills because of neural network overlap. Authors look at these & how integrating speech & language therapy with arm ability training affects recovery in patients with Broca's aphasia.

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

Longitudinal prediction of naming and connected speech in post-stroke aphasia: Contribution of acute white matter characteristics https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41619614/

Too often, women dim their light or reshape themselves to fit outdated moulds of leadership. Our Circles leadership programme helps women to reclaim their own image of what it means to lead. Read how Suraiya Hassan, Circles alumni, felt empowered. https://bit.ly/486COcF

As an NHS clinical psychologist, I can say pretty much everything here is contributing to the distress people are feeling. It's so validating- to feel heard & understood. This is not the usual 'political spin', this is a presentation of reality that so many people live every day. Thank you.

In the latest from #AJSLP, authors evaluate a 10-week aphasia intervention aimed at improver conversational language. Learn more about this pilot study and its implications! https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00113 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

This article from #ASHASIG2 looks at a new intervention for sentence production that can be tailored to people with aphasia https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_PERSP-25-00053 #SLPeeps #SLP2B

Rapid Lexical Retrieval and Executive Functioning in Very Mild Aphasia Purpose: Left-hemisphere stroke survivors who score above the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised (WAB-R) cutoff, but have self-reported aphasia, hav...

Some left-hemisphere stroke survivors have self-reported aphasia, despite scoring above the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised cutoff. This article examines rapid lexical retrieval and executive functioning in very mild aphasia.

https://on.asha.org/49hAnEE

The Latest Aphasia Resources for Clinicians in AJSLP - ASHA Journals Academy More than 2 million Americans have aphasia, and that number is growing annually. Every year, clinicians and researchers gather to present new findings in aphasia and other neurologic language disorder...

AJSLP is closing out 2025 with a whole issue of aphasiology resources for clinicians! Learn about the special issue full of articles developed from the 53rd Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Context! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2025/12/the-latest-aphasia-resources-for-clinicians-in-ajslp/

Just published in open access; we are tremendously proud to have contributed to this landmark paper: Brady et al. (2025). European Stroke Organisation Guideline on Aphasia Rehabilitation. European Stroke Journal 10(4), 1189-1220. doi.org/10.1177/2396...

The Feasibility of Modified Multimodal Communication Treatment With Discourse via Telepractice for People With Aphasia Purpose: Multimodal Communication Treatment with discourse via telepractice (teleMCT+D) is a modified version of Multimodal Communication Treatme...

Due to potential barriers to telepractice with nonspoken communication modalities, authors of this research article sought to evaluate the Multimodal Communication Treatment with discourse via telepractice for people with aphasia.

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

I've yet to see a hardcopy myself but Amazon has some actual photos posted.

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

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MQ3E6...

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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