Research - ABI Communication Lab

World leaders in treatments for people with cognitive-communication disorders (CCD) after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Members of our team have led 70% of the world’s clinical trials for people with CCD after TBI. This map shows where our team’s research is being used in brain injury clinics and in training speech pathology students around the world.

Email us at [email protected] if you would like us to add your clinic or institution to the map.

Current projects:

The Social Brain Toolkit

The Social Brain Toolkit project has developed new online tools to help improve everyday interactions between people with a brain injury and their communication partners. This project is supported by funding from icare NSW, and is being conducted in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney, Brain Injury Australia and Changineers.

convers-ABI-lity

An online platform for people with brain injury and their communication partners to improve conversations together, with the support of a speech pathologist

Coming soon.

social-ABI-lity

An online, self-guided short course for people with brain injury about using social media successfully and safely.

Sign up for the course.

social-ABI-lity Course

interact-ABI-lity

An online, self-guided short course about how to communicate successfully with people with a brain injury. For family, friends, support workers, and professionals working in brain injury.

Sign up for the course.

interact-ABI-lity Course

What is the Communication for Safe Care Project?

This project is a collaboration between South Western Sydney and Western NSW Local Health Districts and the University of Sydney, funded through a National Disability Insurance Agency Mainstream Capacity Building Grant.

The goal is to create environments where people with a communication disability are able to have effective information exchanges in a health care setting.

We are helping teams assess their environment and work practices to understand what adjustments will make their environment and processes more accessible to people with a communication disability, assisting both patients and staff.

Effective communication will increase engagement and provide people with greater choice and control over their own health care, as well as improve staff satisfaction.

Click here to find out more about the project.

You can contact the Communication for Safe Care Project Officer on [email protected].