❋Find me on Bluesky at https://xitter.cf/t.co/R6zCc5nwGW❋ Researcher at @aphasiaCRE, Speech Pathologist behind https://xitter.cf/t.co/nBeSvpywTE

Melbourne, Australia
Joined November 2010
Leaving this account for digital archeologists to unearth one day - find me at bsky.app/profile/jepierce.bs…
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Reminder to let your Australian clients with #aphasia of less than 1 year know about our therapy trial. All 30 hours of treatment and assessments are online. You can hit print on this page to create an aphasia friendly flier: mmat.rehab
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📢 aphasiatherapyonline.com is currently down in many parts of the world ☹️ This is due to a server/DNS problem and out of my hands. Hopefully fixed ASAP by @Hostinger though.
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Register to hear wisdom from the fantastic aphasia trialist, Caterina Breitenstein, next Wednesday 27th November 👂📝 (Alternatively, catch up on our youtube channel youtube.com/@aphasiacre)
Designing trials for aphasia: Do’s and Don’ts Presented by Caterina Breitenstein, PhD. Free seminar presented by the Aphasia CRE on 27th November 2024 at 5pm Melbourne time. More info - wordpress.com/post/aphasiacr… Register NOW - latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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This is why design principles and information processing theory are also important for academic articles, posters and presentations! The scientific *process* removes a lot of human bias but researchers themselves are human and attend to shiny and colourful things.
Study finds “the attention scientific articles receive on Twitter may have more to do with human interaction and inclusion of visual content in the tweets, than the significance of or genuine interest towards the research results." link.springer.com/article/10…
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Does anyone know *why* the journal Aphasiology is not indexed by Medline? Quite problematic for track, metrics, grant submissions...
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"Thank you for that lovely introduction!" - me, who wrote the lovely introduction
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A fascinating video explaining semantics in the PALPA model for #aphasia by @JohnPierce85. Not only clear but the graphics are mesmerising.
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The @AusAphasiaAssoc is letting Kim Beesley & I loose with this facilitated discussion course for care partners of people with #aphasia. It’s an hour long weekly Zoom starting Tuesday 1st October @ 7pm. Pls disseminate. Details & tickets here. events.humanitix.com/seven-h…
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There are 230,000 Greek speakers in Australia 🇬🇷🇦🇺 (nearly half in Victoria) and 13 million worldwide 🌏 Thanks to the generous support of @TelematicsTrust , this free aphasia therapy website is now available in Greek. aphasiatherapyonline.com
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ℹ️ Some of the words added for the Greek adaptation: goat, olive oil, garlic, bouzouki, flag, Acropolis, baklava, jasmine, chamomile, oregano, cucumber, donkey, honey, spaghetti, figs, date, ouzo
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ℹ️ Some of the English words removed: aphid, backscratcher, bellows, boomerang, brim, callipers, candelabra, castanets, corset, croquet... ℹ️ Something monolingual English speakers (like me) might find interesting - the Greek question mark is what we use as a semicolon (;)
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📣Still recruiting people with early #aphasia for 30h of group telerehabilitation, from anywhere in Australia 🇦🇺. Need to start therapy 3-12 months after stroke. Usual treatment can continue. Please help spread the word! More info at mmat.rehab #StrokeRecovery
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John E Pierce retweeted
aphasiatherapyfinder.com/ contains evidence summaries, resources, how-to videos and more for 25 evidence-based #aphasia treatments. Registration is free. An essential item in the aphasia clinician's toolkit. Please share far and wide!
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A mindmap for PhD students struggling with their thesis structure
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John E Pierce retweeted
Congratulations to PhD candidate Nelson Javier Hernandez who has received Saffran Student Scholar Award at the 18th Annual Eleanor M. Saffran Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience & Rehab of Communication Disorders in Philadelphia, USA. More info aphasiacre.wpcomstaging.com/…
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