Speech-Language Pathologist, PhD Candidate, Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Turkstra Lab, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Toronto, Ontario
Joined October 2020
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🚨 Calling all rehab professionals! If you work with youth with acquired brain injury, please share our study recruitment info with your clients. 🌐 #AcquiredBrainInjury #YouthResearch #Rehabilitation #DigitalInclusion
Calling all youth with acquired brain injuries (ABI)! Join our research study exploring how online communication, like social media, gaming, and texting, supports your social interactions. Help us understand your digital world. #ABIResearch #DigitalInclusion #YouthVoice
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
Happy to share our recent publication, 'Applying Trauma and Violence-Informed Care to Speech Language Pathology Practice Across the Lifespan. Topics in Language Disorders 2025. journals.lww.com/topicsinlan… @MacSLP @RSGradMcMaster @KITE_UHN
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Check our #ASSETS2024 paper "SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury"
preprint available: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09683
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
It's a multi-year project with my amazing collaborators and mentors Hajin Lim, @LKakonge, Jade T. Mitchell, @JohnsonHaileyL , Lyn Turkstra, @duffalab, Catalina L. Toma, Bilge Mutlu!
Check our #ASSETS2024 paper "SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury"
preprint available: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09683
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
✨Exciting news!!! ✨
The NOvEL Lab has officially joined LinkedIn 🥳! Join our page to stay updated on our work and help us spread the word!
👉Check out our very first post: rb.gy/q5i4m5
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If you are connected #TBI or #BrainInjury in any way, shout this from the rooftops!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
Calling all youth with acquired brain injuries (ABI)! Join our research study exploring how online communication, like social media, gaming, and texting, supports your social interactions. Help us understand your digital world. #ABIResearch #DigitalInclusion #YouthVoice
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
New paper led by @DrMPhoenix #OpenAccess The #CoPro2022 forum aimed to create a collective vision for equity-based #cocreation through a participatory process involving diverse participants from different countries and backgrounds. ow.ly/WJQA50RfNyk
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
We are so excited to have student led presentations and networking opportunities re: equity-based co-creation. Past/current students will share their co-creation work spanning transit, ICU consent, and employment. Online April 30th, free, signup below. @canchild_ca @SRSMcMasterU
Sign Up Now! Hub Webinar: Lessons Learned in Equity-Based Co-Design -mailchi.mp/63cd7b837c34/sign…
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
Are you interested in learning more about patient and family engagement in research? All are welcome - no experience needed!
⭐️ Patients and families
⭐️ Trainees/students
⭐️ Researchers
⭐️ Clinicians
🔗 Register: pediatrics.healthsci.mcmaste…
🌐 Ready to dive into the world of youth & family engagement in research? 🤓
Join our experts at the Research Roundtable on March 22 at 12 pm. Gain strategies, hear lessons learned, and build connections with fellow @machealthsci researchers.
Register ⬇️
pediatrics.healthsci.mcmaste…
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We invite you to take part in a research study to pilot Move&Connect, an active rehabilitation program to help youth with persistent concussion and their caregivers. Find out more at hollandbloorview.ca/moveconn…
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🚨Free Workshop Alert🚨
This Friday Feb 23rd, learn about how you can use social media and digital tools to support those with brain injury!
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
🎉 Big news! 🚀 Check out the brand-new website from Turkstra Lab! 🧠💻 Dive in to explore the latest research studies in brain injury at turkstralab.healthsci.mcmast… @LynTurkstra
💯 So good I had to post twice! Patient engagement is so important. “Science needs more than empathy.” @DrMPhoenix statnews.com/2024/01/24/reha…
Lisa Kakonge retweeted
'I have been a rehab researcher for 2 decades. But as we struggled to help Livie to recover from her injury, my professional background turned out to be less of a boon...rehab engineering was, + is, utterly unaware of the real problems of families' 👇👇👇 statnews.com/2024/01/24/reha…
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Toronto, thank you for everything. This one’s for you. ❤️ @PlayersTribune
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Lisa Kakonge retweeted
At #iccdc24 seeing outstanding work by Catherine Wiseman-Hakes on youth justice, communication disorders, and #TBI. See the website:
tbi-youth-justice.org/
@SRSMcMasterU
Grateful to #ICCDC24 for providing virtual space to share our work on a single case study report of an adolescent's use of computer-mediated communication after an acquired brain injury #braininjury (collaborators include Sam Hosseini-Moghaddam, Minseo Sunny Kim, @LynTurkstra).
