🧠We are developing new guidance for Cognitive Communication Disorders (CCD) in both adults & children.
We’re inviting feedback from:
🔹RCSLT members
🔹People with CCD & their families
🔹Organisations supporting those with CCD
📅Closes: 23 September
🔗rcslt.org/news/cognitive-com…
ALT cognitive communication disorders guidance consultation now open!
Are you a UK #SLT working in #CCD and #TBI? We want to hear from you and your experiences!
The good news it’s a relatively short and quick survey!
redcap.link/bkd8w50z
Please share widely!
The symposium in cognitive communication disorders is open to anyone interested in this field on the 12th & 13th June this year in Coventry.
A hybrid event with keynotes Jacinta Douglas, Susan Howell & @LeanneTogher
Register today: mers.cventevents.com/event/4…
Excited to finally see my PhD study findings published- positive functional communication outcomes for people with #globalaphasia after a new non-linguistic cognitive intervention. Hope this inspires more research with this group @UCLLangCog@SAPHP_CCCUdx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984…
📢 Excited to announce the 4th CCD Symposium to be in Coventry, UK on the 12th & 13th June 2025.
Invited keynote is Prof Jacinta Douglas
Call for abstracts is open now & will close 26th January 2025. Submit your clinical or research work today!
cvent.com/c/abstracts/b5c084…
We have an amazing opportunity to come and join the Spasticity and CP service at NHNN, Queen's Square, as a 0.8WTE Band 7 physio, please see advert below; uclh.nhs.uk/work-with-us/cur… Closing date is 29th October. Please get in touch if you would like to find out more about the role.
Please sign-up today to make sure your voice counts.
You don't have to complete the survey today. You can sign-up now & do the survey slowly over a week at your own pace!
So important to participate in research that counts and has the potential to change clinical practice!
📢 As you start the working week🇬🇧 remember to sign-up before the 4th Oct to do a national SLT survey on communication partner training & cognitive-communication disorders after brain injury
🗓️ Complete round 1 over a few weeks.
👉 Sign-up here: blogs.city.ac.uk/tango/lates…
Save the date - @DrFayeWray coming to Queen Square to talk about self-management, particularly in communication disorders - 5.30pm, 18th July - free registration details will follow soon
UK SLT working in stroke? We need your help! We are scoping out the need for a UK network for Stroke SLTs Please complete 👉surveyhttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=C9-vD1cBjE2dPZAJbM2yAzuYl3RCWs1MtLtFvBeRf0BUMUwxT0pUSFZCVldRVUNJVVU1WVJHTjNONS4u @RCSLT
This Aphasia Awareness Month, learn about the #QueenSquare ICAP, co-founded by @alexander_leff and @CrinionJenny, where 90 people with speech and language difficulties received 100 hours of therapy over 4 weeks. All made significant improvements. Read: nationalbrainappeal.org/inte…
ALT Professor Jenny Crinion (left) and Professor Alex Leff (right), co-founders of the Queen Square Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programme (ICAP). Photo credit Marie Mangan
ALT Caroline Levitt (right) with her speech and language therapist Beth Gooding (left). Photo credit Marie Mangan
ALT Dr Francis Amafu-Dey (centre) attended the ICAP programme in December 2022. Pictured with specialist speech and language therapist Luisa Zenobi-Bird (left) and his son Delali (right). Photo credit Marie Mangan
ALT Tom Bulatovic, pictured with his wife Barbara Bulatovic, was one of the first to attend the ICAP programme. Photo credit Marie Mangan
The early bird deadline for the BAS conference has been extended! Now is a great time to book. You still have time to submit an abstract. We’d love to see you there 😊
Earlier this week we announced deadline for abstracts has been postponed to 13th June. We are also extending the deadline for buying early bird tickets to 26th July 2024! With an amazing line up of keynotes, #BASConf24 is not one to miss! @BasAphasia#aphasia@dmuleicester
We're getting ready for our online Research Update Meeting on Wednesday 26th June 2024.
BAS members can submit abstracts on aphasia research projects that are:
➡️Planned
⬇️Ongoing
⬅️Recently completed
📨research-in-progress@bas.org.uk by Friday 12th April 2024