@jgallee
SLP scientist at the @uwmedicine.bsky.social with a focus on functional care journeys in neurodegenerative conditions 🧠🗣️💬 | Center for Psychometric Analyses of Aging and Neurodegeneration | UW Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
📢 We’ve extended the deadline for the @icppa.bsky.social conference call for papers to *22nd January*!
🥳 Looking forward reading all your wonderful submissions!
✍️ Submit your abstract here:
www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
@jgallee.bsky.social @fernerodgers.bsky.social @rtslt.bsky.social
Only 15 days to get that abstract submitted for the 1st ever International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia @icppa.bsky.social
Did you know Prof Gorno-Tempini is our keynote speaker? With Dr Chris Hardy & Dr Cathy Taylor-Rubin as invited speakers!
www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
@icppa.bsky.social @jadecartwright.bsky.social @ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social @annavolkmer.bsky.social @mayalhenry.bsky.social
Delighted to share that our preprint on the Progressive Aphasia Communication Toolkit (PACT) is available now!! The PACT has integrated feedback from 95 clinicians, researchers, PwPPA, and care partners worldwide. More to come!! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Honored to be this year’s recipient of the National Aphasia Association Outdrive Aphasia PPA Grant! Even better to receive it alongside my (Bluesky-less) grad school partner-in-crime 😀! aphasia.org/naa-research...
International Conference on PPA Updates: The meeting will now be July 16-17th, just after #AAIC in London, UK. The Call for Papers is ready! Abstract submissions are due 1/15/2026.
tinyurl.com/ICPPACall
#ICPPA2026 #PPAResearch
@annavolkmer.bsky.social @icppa.bsky.social
Incredible, congratulations, Jet!
Goodall transcribes field notes by lamplight in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park c.1960
“The report’s main point is surprisingly simple: people living with #dementia can still set goals, learn strategies, and adapt their lives with the right support … #rehabilitation is about focusing on what a person can still do and helping them do it for as long as possible.”
#slpeeps #cog-comm
Very proud to share my first investigation of components of verbal expression in early-onset and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease dementia, with important clinical implications for communication care in these popularions alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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There’s still time to register! Join us on 9/25 for The Lived Experience with FTD: The Road to an FTD Diagnosis & hear stories from our community about the challenges, resilience, & lessons found on the journey to an FTD diagnosis.
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I am so honored to have received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. Thank you to my team and colleagues for making it possible!! mednews.uw.edu/news/Gall%C3...
What an amazing day!
Webinars in UK, USA, France, Greece, Italy & Canada to celebrate the 1st PPA awareness day
Thank u to all contributors!
@mayalhenry.bsky.social @jgallee.bsky.social @smgrasso.bsky.social @sharonmantonucci.bsky.social
@ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social
Today is the first ever Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) awareness day! Tune in live for the US-based webinar here: aphasia.org/event/intern...
Recorded versions here: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...
#PPAawareness
@mayalhenry.bsky.social @smgrasso.bsky.social @sharonmantonucci.bsky.social
#PPAawareness day is here! 🙌🏻 motivated,inspired & shaped by people living with #PrimaryProgressiveAphasia & driven by a community of international #SLT #SLP s who believe in better access to therapy support & resources. Huge thx to the amazing @annavolkmer@bsky.social & @dyscoveraphasia
The inaugural international PPA Awareness Day is coming up!! We are so excited to share our webinar with you and are grateful for the National Aphasia Association’s support.
2-weeks till PPA awareness day 4 April!
Webinar link: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...
This wk we are sharing another podcast, this time created with student speech & language therapists abt the UCL PPA clinic: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
#PPAawareness
@ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social
4-weeks till PPA awareness day 4 April!
Webinar link: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...
Why is speech and language therapy important for people living with PPA?
We asked people with PPA, families and professionals. Watch our video abt it!
#PPAawareness
@ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social
5-weeks till PPA awareness day 4 April!
Webinar link: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...
Book launch at UCL for the 2nd Ed of our book - 16 international co-authors writing about PPA!
15% off J&R Press NOW at: www.jr-press.co.uk/product/asse...
#PPAawareness
@ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social
Collaborative work led by Dr. Anna Volkmer - An international core outcome set for primary progressive aphasia (COS‐PPA): Consensus‐based recommendations for communication interventions across research and clinical settings alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Congratulations!!!
A tremendous endeavor: sign up today! I am very much looking forward to being in the virtual audience!