Opportunities

Work together to improve conversations after brain injury

This online program is for people with brain injury and their carers to improve conversations together, with support from a speech pathologist.

• Progress through seven modules about conversations after brain injury
• Record and reflect on conversations to learn and see your progress
• Get feedback from your speech pathologist as you practise
• Connect to videocalls with your speech pathologist

convers-ABI-lity is running at the University of Sydney student speech pathology clinic. Read more here about the clinic. You can call (02) 9351 9539 or email to find out more.

Speech pathologists interested in using convers-ABI-lity in the future can complete this form.

Participate in training to improve social media skills after brain injury

We are looking for people who have an acquired brain injury who are interested in learning more about using social media after their injury.

We are asking people to:

If you would like to find out more about the course or the Facebook groups, please contact Dr Melissa Brunner on [email protected].

• complete an online social media training course (2 hours), and
• practice their social media skills in a closed Facebook group (for 8 weeks).

A tool to improve your interactions with people with a brain injury

interact-ABI-lity is a free short course designed for family members, friends, support workers, and professionals working in brain injury.

• Hear from people with a brain injury and their family members
• Learn about communication changes
• Learn how to support people with their communication
• Gain a certificate of completion

For more information, contact Dr Rachael Rietdijk on [email protected].

Try out some Virtual Reality apps & tell us what you think: Virtual Reality in TBI Rehabilitation

We’re looking for people with traumatic brain injury and speech pathologists in Sydney to trial and provide feedback about using virtual reality (VR) for assessing conversation skills. Participating in this study involves:

• Completing some communication assessments via Zoom (participants with TBI only)
• Testing VR apps with the research team at The University of Sydney Camperdown campus
• Providing feedback about the VR apps and tasks.

If you would like more information about this study, please contact Sophie Brassel on [email protected].

What do people with TBI think about the pictures used in speech pathology story tasks?

Researchers at the Hunter Brain Injury Service and University of Newcastle want to find out what people with TBI think about pictures used in speech therapy. 

Would you like to participate, or have questions about the study? Please contact Dr Joanne Steel at the University of Newcastle at [email protected].

TBI Research Registry

If you would like to stay informed or be involved in our future research projects, please contact Professor Leanne Togher on [email protected] to be included in our TBI Research Registry.

The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research Registry is a contact list to support our research to improve services for people with communication difficulties after a traumatic brain injury, their family members, and friends.