🚨PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 The first paper from our focus groups with people with #Parkinson’s and their carers has been published! 🗣️ Read the article: https://t.co/KJEUOSHvS1 Thanks to supervisors @OrlaDuffy11 @ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay for their guidance! @UlsterHealthSci

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🚨PUBLICATION ALERT 2🚨 The second paper from our focus groups, this time with speech and language therapists, has been published! 🗣️ Read the article: https://t.co/fABvHwdGmG Thanks to supervisors @OrlaDuffy11, @ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay for their guidance!

🇲🇹 Currently having an amazing time at the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders Congress in Malta 🇲🇹 I’m grateful to have given two presentations on our PhD work on voice assisted technology and Parkinson’s and made connections 🗣️ @UlsterHealthSci

✨ Delighted to be giving a platform presentation on our co-design study from 11:00-11:15am✨ Show your support! Excited to see a local conference for allied health professions in both research AND practice at @UlsterHealthSci in Belfast on 12th Sept!

✨ Delighted that our team has had THREE abstracts accepted for the @RCSLT conference in Nov ✨ 1️⃣ Presentation: “Co-designing solutions to create a smart speaker tool for speech and voice difficulties for people living with Parkinson’s Disease.” 2️⃣+3️⃣ Posters #rcsltconf2025

📢If you're an SLT working in Northern Ireland, register for the Northern Ireland AHP Research & Innovation Conference 2025 'Transforming Care through Collaboration' 📅Friday 12 September 2025 ⏲️08:30-17:30 📍Belfast Campus, Ulster University 🎟️ https://t.co/BDn7txp56F @RCSLTNI

2️⃣ One of our collaborators summed it up: “The carer and patient are heard. So often in NHS setting they are the last ones to be heard y’know, what would they know. But here, they were put front and centre.” Collaboration underscores innovative healthcare @ParkinsonsUK_NI 💖

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✨Celebrate our nomination! ✨ Proud that @OrlaDuffy11 and I are nominated, for a Royal College of Speech Therapy award! @RCSLTNI Research should be about promoting and listening to the voices of our service users 🗣️ We’ve done that by working with @ParkinsonsUK (1/2)

Are you a health and social care professional in Northern Ireland interested in Parkinson's. We are excited to announce our @ParkinsonsEN Network meeting. At the Rabbit hotel Templepatrick. Places are limited so reserve now! https://t.co/P6wRoyHRAd

Have your say on the new Parkinson's guidance created alongside @ParkinsonsUK the consultation is open from now until 12 September. We're seeking feedback from members, organisations that work w/ people w/ #Parkinsons & members of the public. ➡️ https://t.co/ziyOrQtVet #slpeeps

There is a @ParkinsonsUK parliamentary reception tomorrow in the Houses of Parliament. It would be great to see the @moversand6 petition reach the required 100,000 before it starts at 2pm. Sign and share

Also thankyou to @AnneDon8 and all the lovely staff at @ParkinsonsUK that have supported us with this PhD and co-production research! Co-production is a team effort 💖

🎉Thrilled my research has to be shortlisted for the RCSLT NI 2025 Awards in the category of co-production, with co-authors @ktpedlow @OrlaDuffy11 and @ProfessorPlay! A pleasure to collaborate with @ParkinsonsUK_NI and continue volunteering outside the PhD! Team work!

🏆 Thanks to UU Doctoral College for the lovely trophy for best academic poster in my category at the @UlsterUni PhD festival and to my wonderful supervisory team for their ongoing support @OrlaDuffy11, @ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay @UlsterHealthSci 💖

Our Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Excellence Network is heading to Cardiff on 9 October for their in-person event! Registration is now open so visit our website to find out what they have in store and to secure your place: https://t.co/1YZnqvuGQ0 @RCSLT @RCSLTWales

1️⃣ 🏆 Fantastic to be awarded best poster at the Doctoral College @UlsterUni PhD festival 2025 for ‘Creativity and Innovation’ 👏 Big thank you to my supervisors @OrlaDuffy11 @ktpedlow and @ProfessorPlay for all your guidance and support!

3️⃣ They need education and guidance about using smart speakers therapeutically, including resources help with set up and an increased evidence base.

1️⃣ Smart speakers promote loud clear speech, provide feedback on speech and help to develop self-awareness. 2️⃣ Speech therapists don’t know enough about the functionalities of smart speakers or their privacy.