Leanne Togher

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Leanne Togher _{BAppSc (Speech Path), PhD, FSPAA, CPSP} is an Australian speech pathologist, specialising in communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. She is the Professor of Communication Disorders following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Principal Research Fellow and Director of Communication Sciences in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. She is a current National Health and Medical Research Council Australia (NHMRC) Elizabeth Blackburn Senior Clinical Research Fellow.

Career and research

Togher graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology at the Cumberland College of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney in 1986. She was a clinician for 15 years before embarking on her career in research. She predominantly worked with older patients who had aphasia. However, after successfully treating aphasia in a young female patient who had a fall, Togher developed an interest in traumatic brain injury in young people. Following this interest, Togher moved to Parramatta hospital and began treating patients with traumatic brain injury and was exposed to the multiple presentations seen with traumatic brain injury. Togher completed a PhD in the area of speech pathology at the University of Sydney in 1998.

Togher is the Director of the Acquired Brain Injury Communication Lab at the University of Sydney. Broadly, her research focuses on the improvement of the lives of people with acquired traumatic brain injuries, by helping restore their communication following their injury. Her research has resulted in the development of new communication treatment approaches to help people with brain injuries communicate, as well as the development of communication training programs for families, carers, community agencies and service providers to people with brain injury. These treatments include TBI Express, TBI ConneCT and Improving First Impressions Social Skills Training. These treatments have passed clinical trials and are now available to clinicians, people with brain injury and their families worldwide. In addition, Togher is the Director of the website speechBITE which is a comprehensive database of speech pathology intervention studies that is free to speech pathologists and students both nationally and internationally.

Togher has consistently contributed to both government and professional organisations throughout her research career, including her appointment as a Director of Brain Injury Australia, membership of the Board of Governors of the International Brain Injury Association, the Executive Leadership Committee of the Brain and Mind Centre, and the Executive Committee of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment. She was the Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, in 2016-2017.

She was the sole international Board member (2020–2022) on the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Journals Board. She is also Chair of the Editorial Board for Brain Impairment.

Togher has been the Chief Investigator and Executive Committee member on three NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence (CRE). The first was the Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Rehabilitation, which aimed to;

• Communicate with people with aphasia and their families, to establish their needs, concerns and priorities;
• Research and develop the best possible methods of rehabilitation for people with aphasia; and
• Provide relevant and accessible guidelines for aphasia therapy, through collaboration with people with aphasia, their families and friends, speech pathologists and other health professionals.

The second CRE that Togher was a Chief Investigator of is the Moving Ahead Centre for Research Excellence in Brain Recovery, which is an interdisciplinary and multisite centre that aims to improve outcomes of people and families with traumatic brain injury. The third is the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia and Recovery, which aims to "transform the health and wellbeing of people with aphasia and their families through research that leads to enhanced, cost-effective and sustainable interdisciplinary aphasia rehabilitation and community services". At this CRE, Togher leads the Technology Program.

Awards and recognition

• 2020 – Appointed to World Health Organization Development Group for Traumatic Brain Injury
• 2018 - NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn-Clinical Medicine Research Fellowship Award - as the first allied health professional in Australia to receive this award
• 2018 - The University of Sydney Vice Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research
• 2017-2023 - Honorary Professor, City University, London, UK
• 2016-2023 - Visiting Professor, Education University of Hong Kong
• 2017 - Franklin Women's Mentor
• 2014 - Fellow, Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment for outstanding contribution to the Society and the field of brain injury
• 2014 - Fellow, Speech Pathology Australia
• 2014 - Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research Higher Degree supervision, The University of Sydney
• 2011 - Elinor Wray Award for Outstanding Achievement to Speech Pathology, Speech Pathology Australia
• Past President, Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI)

Selected publications

• Tate, Robyn L.; Mcdonald, Skye; Perdices, Michael; Togher, Leanne; Schultz, Regina; Savage, Sharon (2008-08-01). "Rating the methodological quality of single-subject designs and n-of-1 trials: Introducing the Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) Scale". Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 18 (4): 385–401. doi:10.1080/09602010802009201. ISSN 0960-2011. PMID 18576270.
• Davidson, Bronwyn; Howe, Tami; Worrall, Linda; Hickson, Louise; Togher, Leanne (2008-07-01). "Social Participation for Older People with Aphasia: The Impact of Communication Disability on Friendships". Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation. 15 (4): 325–340. doi:10.1310/tsr1504-325. ISSN 1074-9357. PMID 18782736.
• Togher, Leanne; Wiseman-Hakes, Catherine; Douglas, Jacinta; Stergiou-Kita, Mary; Ponsford, Jennie; Teasell, Robert; Bayley, Mark; Turkstra, Lyn S. (2014). "INCOG Recommendations for Management of Cognition Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Part IV: Cognitive Communication". Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 29 (4): 353–368. doi:10.1097/HTR.0000000000000071. ISSN 0885-9701.
• Togher, Leanne; McDonald, Skye; Code, Chris; Grant, Susan (2004-04-01). "Training communication partners of people with traumatic brain injury: A randomised controlled trial". Aphasiology. 18 (4): 313–335. doi:10.1080/02687030344000535. ISSN 0268-7038.

External links

• Leanne Togher publications indexed by Google Scholar

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