Nicholas Behn

🚀 New resource for therapists in brain injury

We’ve launched an online repository of project-based interventions bringing together research-informed & clinician projects.

🔎 Explore ideas and share projects
👉 blogs.city.ac.uk/potion/

Let’s make project intervention visible

Great to share where we are up to and all the research we can generated from the TANGO study.

A huge achievement and team effort from everyone involved, aimed at helping people with brain injury and cognitive communication changes, and their families!

📣 Free TANGO Showcase 🗓 15 Jan 2026 | Hybrid 🔗

citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🧠 TANGO Study Update

What communication strategies may be taught in communication partner training after ABI?

We synthesised 200+ strategies into 40 core strategies across 6 categories, informing a clinical decision-making tool for practice

@nihr.bsky.social

TANGO Showcase event flyer

TANGO Showcase
Attend in London or online
15 Jan 2026
1.30pm-6pm

Hear findings from research in communication partner training, supporting people with cognitive communication difficulties after acquired brain injury & their families.

👉 Free to attend
👉 Free refreshments
👉 Register: bit.ly/4rKc8GA

We have worked on two qualitative evidence syntheses which we hope to publish shortly.

Remember out TANGO Showcase Event on the 15th January 2026

👉Register here: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

RCSLT Conference 2025: 80 years and beyond | RCSLT

This week I will present at at the RCSLT annual conf on 27th Nov 1pm on Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System to describe voice & brain injury interventions

Join us in the "brain injury / cognitive communication" stream

Register here: www.rcslt.org/events/rcslt...

See some further results from our TANGO study on the eDelphi study to identify key techniques needed for communication training for people with brain injury.

Remember to save the date for our showcase event - 15th January 2026.

Follow our updates and make sure you save the 15th January 2026 for our free showcase event!

Thank you to @nihr.bsky.social for the funding for this research and also Jamie for presenting at @acrmrehab.bsky.social

So sorry to not be there in person but glad the study was presented!

Research Image of the Year | City St George's, University of London Learn about our Research Image of the Year competition.

🎉 Our NIHR #TANGO study image shortlisted for Research Image of the Year at @citystgeorges.bsky.social!

Drawn by Tom Bailey, it shows codesigners—people with brain injury, families & SLTs—creating a communication partner training programmme.

Vote here
👉 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/research/sup...

SLT student Emma Reid from @citystgeorges.bsky.social reflects on her experiences during a summer NIHR internship with the TANGO project - from co-design sessions to co-chairing at a conference!

blogs.city.ac.uk/tango/2025/1...

#NIHR #SLT #ABI #Research #Internship #SLT2B #BlueSkySpeechies

So proud of our codesigners & what we achieved over the last few months.

So excited to start write everything up and start to share in January!

Rachael Rietdijk, Emma Power, @leannetogher.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social Jane Marshall, Penny Prodger

Feasibility and Reliability of the Adapted Kagan Scales for Rating Conversations for People With Acquired Brain Injury: A Multiphase Iterative Mixed-Methods Design Purpose: Rating the quality of conversations can assess communication skills in both people with acquired brain injury and their communication pa...

Our new paper on assessing conversations after brain injury is now OPEN ACCESS 📝🗣️

✅ 5-min conversation ratings are more reliable & practical than 10-min ones
✅ MPC & MSC scales showed moderate reliability
✅ Scoring takes <30 min

👉 Read here:
pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....

I would most definitely consider it depending on the amount of time involved

I didn’t but on my list. I’m increasingly frustrated by the lack of understanding and portrayal by book authors and filmmakers alike. At the very least ask us to advise appropriately before an author writes or an actor acts.

@primevideouk.bsky.social #TheGirlfriend enjoyed the series but disappointed by lack of portrayal of cognitive & communication impairments post injury. Post injury people have impaired social communication skills & significant retrograde amnesia! We need to do better to raise public awareness!

@carlamagdalani.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @katerinahilari.bsky.social @driankellar.bsky.social @leannetogher.bsky.social

This week we ran co-design sessions in Birmingham & London with people with brain injury, family members & speech therapists. Together we explored mechanisms & techniques to support communication training shaped by lived experience

Www.blogs.city.ac.uk/tango

#CoDesign #BrainInjury #Communication

Join our next ICAP network event on 1st April. Looking forward to hearing from Katie and Luiza. @jeanrutter.bsky.social @madelinecruice.bsky.social @cathyoff.bsky.social

Development of the Guide to Disseminating Research (GuiDiR): A consolidated framework Less than one third of research evidence is translated into policy or practice. Knowledge translation requires effective dissemination, adoption and f…

We're increasingly ensuring that dissemination is a standalone workpackage in our grants. Work led by the team in Leicester during our NIHR PGfAR resulted in the GuiDiR dissemination framework, which provides a structure for dissemination activities : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK-wide aphasia project awarded £3.8 million to improve post-stroke communication | City St George's, University of London Project plans to co-design and evaluate a novel communication partner training (CPT) programme

I’ve not posted in ages but this is newsworthy - I’m delighted we’ve been awarded funding for APT for this incredible project supporting communication for families with aphasia - leading with Prof Rebecca Palmer and a stellar team!!!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

So great to have you at both conferences and to spend time with you!

And a few more memories and posters of the symposium. The other keynotes Jacinta Douglas and Susan Howell reminded us of connection, belonging and asserting our role as SLT!

At the #CCDSymp2025 I presented on communication partner training, dating & creating collaborations. So many amazing talks, posters and opportunities for networking with therapists @leannetogher.bsky.social reminding us of the words of the late Audrey Holland & stories of Mark Ylvisaker

Jacinta Douglas is opening the 4th CCD Symposium to almost 167 attendees in person and online.

What is meaning to you? Good starting reflection as to how to build connection & relationships post-injury #CCDSymp2025

🧠 Our course on project-based intervention for people with brain injury is back for 2025!

Learn how to use this approach + get practical resources to apply in your service. For SLTs, OTs, neuropsychs & more.

📅 Starts 29 Sept
🔗 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

#Rehab #BrainInjury #CPD

❗️Reminder to register

🚨 Free SLT implementing research into practice event! Join us 20th June for a showcase of SLT research

@CityStGeorges
— hybrid event for clinicians & researchers alike.

Register & view the programme here: 📷 citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-event……

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