City Aphasia Lab:
The team of researchers @CityLCS investigating assessment, interventions and well-being in people with #aphasia@_CityAccess makes the resources developed at #CityAphasiaLab available to researchers and clinicians via:
💻 cityaccess.org
🙋Do you have aphasia?
🙋♂️Do you want to take part in research?
We are looking for people to help us compare assessments delivered either:
👥face-to-face or 💻online
Speech therapists need to know they will get the same results. This research will find out, see the advert👇
Survey request for UK based speech and language therapy students. What are your experiences of aphasia therapy as a student? We've had 53 responses so far. Please share with UK SLT students. Thank you. cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.c…
1/2 📷📷📷 Want to know what we have been up to the past 10 years? New pub in Stroke by members of the international Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (CATs) Executive Committee details educational and scientific CATs achievements of over the past decade: ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
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Which is/are the best or preferred AI for language translations?
And can anyone point to research/information about outcomes from professional translators versus AI-generated?
And final ask - any guidance/standard operating procedures around this process?
Trending in #Linguistics:
ooir.org/index.php?field=Lit…
1) The violence of literature review & the imperative to ask new questions
2) No evidence that language model surprisal explains syntactic disambiguation difficulty
3) What Conversation Topics are Meaningful to People with Aphasia?
4) Clinical aspects of bilingualism research in adults
5) A social turn for Construction Grammar: double modals on British Twitter
So pleased to share a series of films made with people with #aphasia/ family members on what we can all do to support emotional recovery post #stroke.
They hoped their messages would be heard widely – please share!
Links to films in thread
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How do we choose what words or conversation topics to use as treatment stimuli in speech and language therapy?
This is not often reported in papers.
We asked a group of people with #aphasia what they thought:
Link to paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…#SLT#SLP@CityLCS
#JustPublished: "Spoken Discourse Impairments in the Neurogenic Populations"
This comprehensive volume provides balanced and easily readable chapters on contemporary topics around discourse production in patients with neurogenic disorders.
London and SouthEast #slpeeps in NHS community services is anyone interested in partnering up with @APTproject2 to evaluate APT in their setting? Please DM me or email me m.cruice@city.ac.uk to chat further!
New Look Aphasia Software Finder aphasiasoftwarefinder.org
The Aphasia Software Finder has had a re-design to make the website easier to navigate.
Watch this video to find out more: youtu.be/I84B5GnfAvc?si=2nO2…
I'm lucky to be a consultant on this work. Let us know what you think!
City Access videos:
How does an advisory group of people with #aphasia contribute to the running of a feasibility randomised controlled trial?
This 📹 shares experiences from the VESFA trial
youtu.be/feAnOFjM2GA?si=ulBm…@EVAphasia@NiamhDevane
Exciting opportunity to work with @cityuni_hcid and @CityLCS on the EPSRC-funded "Inclusive Data Visualization for Human-Centred Decision-Making" project
Address a significant gap in knowledge about how people with communication disability use #dataviscity.ac.uk/about/jobs/apply/…
City Access videos:
How do #SLTs and #nurses share information about communication and swallowing on #stroke units?
This ethnographic study included observations of SLTs and nurses at work, interviews, and patient records
Watch the📹:
youtu.be/_-TYgX6SB2Y?si=6cMm…
@Rachel_Barnard_
City Access videos:
The SUPERB study explored what helps people adjust and get on with life after stroke & #aphasia
Interviews explored experiences of care, life changes since stroke and people's resources and support systems
Led by @KaterinaHilari
📹youtu.be/yt8vhGXaShM?si=L5sh…
City Access videos:
The SUPERB study compared peer befriending with usual care for people with #aphasia
In this video you will hear what people with aphasia, significant others and peer-befrienders thought about peer befriending
📹 youtu.be/iFlGyHR09MA?si=7ENx…@KaterinaHilari