#AphasiaPoems - a thread.
Poems written by authors with #aphasia.
Poems read by Juliet, Greame, Jan, Denise, Edwyn, Grace, Lee, Julia and Jayne.
Poems created using the #MakeWrite app.
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Juliet Stevenson reads poems by members of @dyscoveraphasia
New paper from the INCA project @cityuni_hcid @CityUniSTEM @CityLCS exploring tools for digital creativity with people with aphasia.
It's open access so you can grab a copy at
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Are you a graduate from our @cityuni_hcid programme and want to catch up with old friends? Whatever year you graduated come along on Wednesday 27th July for our 'HCID Student and Alumni Mixer' nee reunion. bit.ly/HCIDMixer#HCIDReunion.
Our @IncaProject#Art & #Aphasia blog with @artukdotorg:
"creative & accessible technologies can provide a space for fun, for beauty, for sharing, for disagreement and a chance to share aspects of identity that we might not otherwise be able to express."
artuk.org/discover/stories/b…
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Planning our next #marketing meeting which will focus on our plans to update our #website. Going to use the @IncaProject@CityLCS guide to 'Designing for users with aphasia' a brilliant simple guide to 'set the scene' and use as fundamental principle 😀
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A three panel line-drawn comic strip showing a character:
1. Ordering a burger, saying “Can I have one?”
2. Sitting, eating with another, saying “Try this”
3. Holding their belly to laugh as the other person looks on with their mouth open, saying “Yuck!”
Love working with #aphasia?This fulfilling, flexible and varied job could be for you. Nice mix of clinical & management. Super team, loads of support, great opportunities! Give us a call, or arrange a visit to find out more👇
Congratulations to @IncaProject!! I will miss the advisory committee meetings - every one was a delight to be a part of. I hope we'll keep in touch. All the best!!
Fascinated to learn about @IncaProject: city.ac.uk/news-and-events/n… Aphasia affects 350,000 people in UK affects people’s ability to speak, understand speech, read and write. INCA addresses exclusion of people with language impairments from digital content creation and consumption.
We are wrapping up our innovative, creative, enjoyable, interdisciplinary INCA project @CityUniLondon.
Read about the project and our celebration here:
city.ac.uk/news-and-events/n…
@CityUniSTEM @CityUniHealth.
Welcome to City @profserious. We'd love to hear what you think of our work!
Really moving collaborative project which subverted expectations I didn't know I had of people with aphasia. @Incaproject supporting them to become creators and share their experience. Thank you #HCIDUnlocked