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Better Conversations @BCPPAphasia

Better Conversations with Primary Progressive Aphasia; aims to improve access to conversation therapy for therapists & people with PPA. Curated by Anna Volkmer.

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Need a reading recommendation for 2022: Our open access article on Better Conversations approaches to remote Communication Partner Training during COVID-19 - with a focus on PPA is available here @volkmer_anna @BCAphasia @clairefarring20
UCL Discovery@ucl_discovery
21 Dec 2021
Open Access UCL Research: TeleCPT: Delivery of a Better Conversations Approach to Communication Partner Training During a Global Pandemic and Beyond discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprin…
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Philippa Clay@pclaySLT
16 Dec 2021
đź‘Ź congratulations @volkmer_anna @clairefarring20 @BCPPAphasia. Great recommendations for #teleCPT and encouragement to "JUST DO IT"!! - it's feasible, acceptable and helps people to achieve their communication goals đź‘Ť what's not to like?!
Better Conversations Lab@BCAphasia
15 Dec 2021
Very excited to let you know this publication w @volkmer_anna & @clairefarring20 is out!! #teleCPT in action - it's a case study of remote CPT for client w PPA & spouse. Lots of practical tips #SLT #slt2b - preprint version coming soon via UCL for those with no access @pclaySLT
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To MHA or to MCA that is the question. annavolkmer.wordpress.com/20…

To MHA or to MCA that is the question.

Over the last year I have been privileged to have been spending a few hours about once a month with Sophie Borrett, a highly specilaised speech and language therapist undertaking an NIHR PCAF award…

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My journey to a diagnosis of PNFA and beyond annavolkmer.wordpress.com/20…

My journey to a diagnosis of PNFA and beyond

I am in an extremely privileged position to have met many people living with PPA. Last year I met Caron, and we have been worked on a few things together since then. Caron shared some of her writin…

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Diary juggling: When writing engulfs you annavolkmer.wordpress.com/20…

Diary juggling: When writing engulfs you

The last two nights I have spent at least 2-4 hours when I should be sleeping thinking about work. I confess this rarely happens to me. I am incredibly grateful that I am generally one of those peo…

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Impact: What lies beyond a journal article? annavolkmer.wordpress.com/20…

Impact: What lies beyond a journal article?

  For the first couple of years at the start of my clinical academic journey I ruminated and punished myself for not having yet written a peer reviewed journal article. I confess I had a vague feel…

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A blog Dr Anna Volkmer's research in the area of dementia and speech and language therapy

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Speaking out: My experience of being diagnosed with PPA annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

Speaking out: My experience of being diagnosed with PPA

A few years ago I received a call out of the blue, from a lady who had been given a diagnosis of PPA and no further advice. We spoke for almost an hour. Since then Helen and I have spoken regularly…

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Student blog: Why choose dementia? annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

Student blog: Why choose dementia?

This is the time of year when final year MSc student speech and language therapists are busily writing up their project dissertations and first year MSc student speech and language therapists are j…

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Guest blog: Supporting students to support people with dementia during a pandemic annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

Guest blog: Supporting students to support people with dementia during a pandemic

I recently put out a tweet asking if speech and language therapists could and would like to share their experiences and their work on how they have addressed the needs of people with dementia durin…

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Guest Blog: Reflections on my journey as a BAME SLT working with adults. annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

Guest Blog: Reflections on my journey as a BAME SLT working with adults.

There has been lots of discussion about increasing diversity in our profession recently, and rightly so. One of the conversations that sprang to my mind was the discussion I had a few times with a …

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Sharing practice during COVID-19: Remote Dysphagia Management for People with Dementia annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

Sharing practice during COVID-19: Remote Dysphagia Management for People with Dementia

I recently put a call out on twitter asking the speech and language therapy community what they have been doing clinically to deliver services or support people with dementia.The response was so lo…

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Launching #BitesizeBC: Remote delivery of communication partner training annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

Launching #BitesizeBC: Remote delivery of communication partner training

Roll up!!! We are launching Bitesize Better Conversations with our first online event on the 1st July from 1.30-2.30pm GMT 1.   As the current pandemic evolves, NHS services are in flux. Many …

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Tele-therapy- remote delivery of Better Conversations annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…
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SLT for our self-isolating communication impaired patients may be essential to keeping them safe annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…
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What motivates us: Training to be a speech and language therapist annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…
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Student SLTs giving voice to people with PPA annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…
Primary Progressive Aphasia: In plain English, by an SLT student annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…
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To blog or not to blog…reflections of a student SLT annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…

To blog or not to blog…reflections of a student SLT

Every year I ask a group of students working on the BCPPA project to challenge themselves to write some blog for me. Social media is such a useful way of sharing clinical practice and finding evide…

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Shared interactions through poetry in dementia annavolkmersbigphdadventure.…
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