Dr Analisa M Pais

Something old, something borrowed, something new: frameworks to guide cultural adaptations and their documentation in aphasia treatments There is a crucial need to improve cultural and linguistic representation in the field of aphasia research and in clinical practice. One way to increase representation in the field of aphasiology i...

SLTs and researchers interested in increasing access to, and representation of culturally and linguistically relevant aphasia interventions, this paper is for you!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Stroke is the leading cause of aphasia.

To mark #WorldStrokeDay, why not find out more about our research? Explore our website here: www.dara.org.uk/

#aphasia

@thestrokeassoc.bsky.social

SLT students at Essex Uni are looking to interview SLTs and SLTAs with experience of using gesture in aphasia therapy in acute settings- please get in touch with Maddy and Laura if you’re interested. @basaphasia.bsky.social @susieslt.bsky.social @aphasiatherapycen.bsky.social @abracabadger.com

Aphasia in South Asian languages (ASAL) project: a protocol of connected speech tasks for investigating cross-linguistic grammatical profiles in aphasia for South Asian languages Languages vary in their syntactic (e.g. word order in sentences), lexical (e.g. presence of specific word classes), and morphological (e.g. inflectional or derivational forms of words) properties. ...

So honored to contribute to this important work and push forward #discourse research for underrepresented aphasia populations!

Congratulations to all my co-authors and the incredible ASAL team!

Our paper is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Kannada version of the CGC is available here: osf.io/yt24q
Congratulations to Chirag for his excellent MSc project at Uni of Essex.

This is exciting! An opportunity to make our co-designed international aphasia awareness campaign a reality. Please join us and #MatchtheMomentum for #AphasiaAwareness!

Wheelmap Wheelmap is an online map to search, find and mark wheelchair-accessible places. Get involved by marking public places like bars, restaurants, cinemas or supermarkets!

This is SUPER cool <3 And everyone can contribute by adding to it!

#accessibility #opendata #openGIS #openX #community

wheelmap.org

Look! A brilliant new #aphasia project from Profs @madelinecruice.bsky.social & Rebecca Palmer.

Great to see inclusivity at its core:
"A crucial aim of the project is to ensure the intervention is inclusive, accessible and representative."

@citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social
@citystgeorges.bsky.social

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...

Don't miss this (free) phenomenal #sentence repository from @yinaquique.bsky.social, co-developed with #Spanish speaking persons with #aphasia

yina-quique.github.io/repositorio/

Attending #ISB15 in beautiful San Sebastian? Check out our CATS led symposium on #Aphasia in #Multilingual speakers happening today! @isbilingualism.bsky.social

It's here!

Why not paint and deposit a #RockingAphasia stone somewhere in your world this June for #AphasiaAwarenessMonth?

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Visit RockingAphasia.com
or click on the hashtag #RockingAphasia to learn more.

Improving access to Amazon’s Alexa for people with aphasia | City St George's, University of London Four videos share the experience of people with the language disability aphasia when interacting with Alexa voice technology

Aphasia and Voice Technology.

Read more about the project here:
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

#BSkySpeechies
#Aphasia
#A11y

Improving How Healthcare Staff Support the Psychological Well‐Being of People Living With Post‐Stroke Aphasia: A Co‐Created Study Background and Aims Aphasia, a language disability, is common following a stroke. People with aphasia are at risk of becoming depressed and isolated, yet due to their communication difficulties, hea...

For my first ever post... I'm so pleased to share this article.

We worked with people with #aphasia and their families on how healthcare staff can support emotional recovery.

@katerinahilari.bsky.social @lydiadavis.bsky.social @abracabadger.com Amanda Comer

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Thanks to Josephine Mabin and team for making their new article #accessible using the #aphasia research library! Read their review summary here: www.aphasialibrary.org/en/article/52/
The full paper is available here: doi.org/10.1080/0268...

An analysis of descriptions by Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia Description tasks are used to evaluate and investigate the production abilities of people with language impairments such as aphasia.The goal of the present study is to investigate the production ab...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #Catalan #SLPeeps 1/5

An analysis of descriptions by Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia: Aphasiology: Vol 0, No 0

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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

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Free @manmetuni.bsky.social #communication #disability #research #webinar with the brilliant @sallymorganslt.bsky.social presenting 'Safe, Efficient & Enjoyable Mealtimes for families of #children with #neurodevelopmental #dysphagia’ 08/04/25 16.30-17.30 GMT+1 teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Carers in post-stroke aphasia: a scoping review of interventions and outcomes beyond communication partner training Carers of people with aphasia face unique challenges. Research has demonstrated that these carers have a higher burden of care and more negative stroke-related outcomes in comparison to carers of s...

We know communication partner training is extremely important for carers of people w #aphasia, but what about other interventions? Our PhD candidate @nelsonjslp.bsky.social conducted a review. There are lots of promising approaches! Most with exploratory evidence only.
doi.org/10.1080/0963...

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📢 Can you support aphasia research?

Face-to-face And Telehealth Equivalence of assessments in Aphasia (FATE-A) is a research project *improving access to healthcare*

This is the *final month* of recruitment

We are hoping to see 100 people with aphasia

More info: blogs.city.ac.uk/FATE-A/take-...

Long-term prognosis and health-related quality of life for people with Aphasia in Sweden People with aphasia (PWA) after ischemic stroke often have difficulties in communication and social participation. To individualise rehabilitation and optimise recovery, there is a need for knowled...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #Swedish

Full article: Long-term prognosis and health-related quality of life for people with Aphasia in Sweden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!

Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...

• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025

#aphasia

Language & Cognition seminar 12th Feb 1-2 Chandler House B02! Arpita Bose: Connected Speech Characteristics in Alzheimer’s Disease and Post-Stroke Aphasia: Importance and Challenges of Determining Language-specific Markers in Linguistically Diverse Populations. All welcome #aphasia #PPA
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Looking for a new direction in 2025? 🎓 Fully funded Australian #PhD opportunity in #aphasia care! Study adherence to quality indicators & test interventions to close care gaps. Based at #QARC, with remote options. Scholarship covers living & tuition. DM me for details!

I did a post on the other platform (X), to encourage folk over to join the #aphasia conversation here on @bsky.app. Here's a link: x.com/abracabadger...
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