1 Aug 2025
So excited to be taking Better Conversations to Australia in November! Booking link ⬇️ #BetterConversationsLab
1 Aug 2025
Better Conversations training is going down under!
Any Australian speech pathologists who would like to attend our training in Sydney on Monday 10th Nov or in Perth on Monday 17th November?
Sign up here: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/pal…
@BCPPAphasia @BCAphasia @SpeechPathAus
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10 Jun 2025
And Fern's poster on examining how published studies report on dose and intensity for #PPA interventions #BetterConversationsLab #NAC2025
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10 Jun 2025
Here's Susie's poster on #SLT views and experiences of working with people with Wernicke's #aphasia @SarahNorthcott8 #BetterConversationsLab #NAC2025
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10 Jun 2025
So lovely to be here with our fantastic #BetterConversationsLab #SLT PhD students, Claudia, Susie and Fern @Clau_OM @SusieWSLT Flying the @UCLLangCog communication partner training flag at #NAC2025 @UCLBrainScience @UCLPALS
9 Jun 2025
First day of the Nordic Aphasia Conference in Uppsala, Sweden #NAC2025.
Amazing presentations, interesting conversations, beautiful places and of course, taking the Communication Partner Training flag everywhere 🙌🏼
@volkmer_anna @BCAphasia @UCLLangCog
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10 May 2025
Yay Susie! So pleased you've had this recognition for your fantastic work 👏👏 #aphasia #BetterConversationsLab @UCLLangCog
10 May 2025
Great day at the @CAHPRangliaeast 2025 Conference and thrilled to win the Best Poster prize with @BCAphasia @freyjabell @SarahNorthcott8 @Team_ESNEFT
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2 May 2025
Final few places left for our online course next Wednesday 7 May on communication partner training for #SLTA and rehab assistants. Led by @clairefarring20 and Suzanne Beeke. Don't miss out! Link ⬇️ #BetterConversationsLab
31 Dec 2024
Our #BetterConversations training for #SLTA was so popular in 2024 that we are running this 1 day course again on 7 May 2025 on zoom - book here onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/confer…
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9 Apr 2025
Doing art and conversation with the fantastic @ItsNiceToMake as part of our intensive conversation group for people with PPA and their family conversation partners, with amazing #slt2b Ruby and Elina @volkmer_anna #BetterConversationsLab #PPAawareness
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25 Jan 2025
Fantastic to see @AcquireSLT's paper on a non-linguistic cognitive intervention for global #aphasia trending in #Linguistics over the last 30 days 👍 #BetterConversationsLab @UCLLangCog @volkmer_anna @steven_bloch
25 Jan 2025
Trending in #Linguistics:
ooir.org/index.php?field=Lit…
1) Speech Sound Difficulties & Language and Reading Skills
2) Stuttering & Anticipated Success on Employment Outcomes
3) Embarrassment in English language classrooms
4) Non‐linguistic cognitive intervention & aphasia (@ijlcd)
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11 Jan 2025
A non-linguistic cognitive intervention delivered with a dose replicable in clinical practice can improve functional communication & non-verbal cognition in some people with global #aphasia So proud of Sharon @AcquireSLT & this important paper 🤩 #BetterConversationsLab
11 Jan 2025
Evaluating the effect of a non‐linguistic cognitive intervention on functional communication in global aphasia: A case series study - Adjei‐Nicol - 2025 - International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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29 Oct 2024
#SLT share experiences of provision for dementia communication - what u do/can't do, pathways, decisions, enablers, challenges. Let's understand the clinical landscape so we can better enact @rcslt #dementia clinical guidelines - & help Anna w her PhD! #BetterConversationsLab
Are you an adult community SLT? Want to give your views on the SLT role in communication in dementia, to shape decision-aid development? Join our online focus group on Wednesday 20th Nov at 12pm! Sign up: bit.ly/42H4aRB or email a.hockley@ucl.ac.uk @BCAphasia @UCLLangCog
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25 Oct 2024
Congratulations @pxrobbo - supremely well deserved award. You are a much valued champion of the #BetterConversationsLab @UCLLangCog
24 Oct 2024
I’ve been privileged to know @pxrobbo & his wife Charman for 8 yrs & extremely lucky to have benefited from his knowledge & guidance. He is also a valued member of the @BCAphasia @BCPPAphasia @BCDParkinsons Lab @UCLLangCog & the deserved winner of an @RCSLT honorary fellowship!
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19 Sep 2024
#BetterConversationsLab @volkmer_anna presenting her work at #ISFTD2024 Amsterdam @UCLLangCog @UCLPALS
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17 Sep 2024
Excited to be supporting @SusieWSLT to research experiences of Wernicke's #aphasia -vital 2 b shining a light here: severe disability, carers struggling & #SLT don't know how best to help. Research? Very little out there... @ESNEFT_AHPs @ESNEFTResearch #BetterConversationsLab
17 Sep 2024
Wonderful hearing @SusieWSLT 's MRes research into Wenickes Aphasia . Such an important bit of work, I can't wait to see what you do next! @BCAphasia @UCLLangCog @NIHRresearch #PCAF
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17 Sep 2024
#BetterConversationsLab research at @BASConf24 @volkmer_anna shares insights into development of intensive conversation camps #aphasia #PPA involving #slt2b @UCL_MScSLS Alys Hollyer @OTandpinchofSLT & Elisabeth Feest, also @FirleB @RosemaryTowns15 & Mah Raha @ItsNiceToMake
@volkmer_anna shares now about Better Conversation Intensive Conversation Camps #BASConf24 @BasAphasia
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16 Sep 2024
#BetterConversationsLab member @freyjabell presents her MRes #NIHR_PCAF research on communication within community #stroke MDTs #BASConf24 @volkmer_anna @steven_bloch
@freyjabell presents now about communication within community stroke MDTs - what is the current communication process? #BaSConf24 @BasAphasia
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29 Aug 2024
Congratulations Susie! 🥳 It's been such a pleasure to supervise your vital research into fluent #aphasia, be part of your ongoing @ClinAcSLT journey & have you in the #BetterConversationsLab @UCLLangCog - looking forward to what comes next🤞#LoveSuffolk
29 Aug 2024
MRes dissertation submitted ✅
Celebratory evening seaside walk 🥳
Big thanks to everyone who has supported me, especially my amazing supervisors @BCAphasia @SarahNorthcott8
Looking forward to making an impact with my research
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24 Aug 2024
Congratulations Freyja #SLT on submitting your @NIHRresearch #PCAF dissertation 🎉 it's been a pleasure to have you in the #BetterConversationsLab Looking forward to hearing about your next steps!
23 Aug 2024
MRes dissertation, finally submitted.
What a ride the last 2 years have been. Thank you @volkmer_anna for everything. You are such a wonderful supervisor and support.... and breathe. ❤️ @UCLLangCog thank you to @DrBronwenEvans for also supporting me through my MRes. #PCAF #NIHR
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17 Jul 2024
It's very exciting to be offering Better Conversations communication partner training for #aphasia and #PPA as part of the revamped @UCLLangCog Communication Clinic @ClinicUCL @volkmer_anna #BetterConversationsLab
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16 Jul 2024
Had a fantastically productive couple of days writing research papers with @freyjabell @SusieWSLT @steven_bloch, organised by the indomitable @volkmer_anna Thank you @RosemaryTowns15 and sweet Millie 😺 #BetterConversationsLab
16 Jul 2024
Just back from a wonderful, productive writing retreat with this lovely group of academics. I do love a retreat! ❤️ @BCPPAphasia @volkmer_anna @SusieWSLT @steven_bloch
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9 Jul 2024
For her PhD in the #BetterConversationsLab Claudia @Clau_OM is investigating the use of communication partner training in #aphasia by #SLT #slpeeps in Latin America - please help us reach them! @CATs_Aphasia @AnalisaMPais @yinaquique @s_m_grasso @NidhiMahendra
9 Jul 2024
Si eres Fonoaudiólogo/a o Terapeuta del Habla y Lenguaje en: Chile, Argentina, Perú, Colombia, Costa Rica o México y trabajas con personas con Afasia, te invitamos a participar de esta investigación respondiendo esta encuesta.
Link a la encuesta acá: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form…
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