Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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Check out the latest episode of the Aphasia Access podcast: #115 Next STEPS in conversation with Professor Ian Kneebone. Professor Kneebone will discuss the need for psychological care for people with #aphasia and the stepped care model. buff.ly/43YaMfJ

This is a very clever and informative paper: of 99 SLT students asked to consume pureed solids and mildly thick liquids for just 24 hrs, 60% didn’t/couldn’t. pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.104…

Leeds friends ! I am very pleased that thanks to We are NIHR support the Making Headway Play is on the road! I do hope you can come out tomorrow ticketsource.co.uk/stageleeds-uni… Headway Leeds Headway - the brain injury association Headway Essex

Make sure you get your #aphasia abstracts in by Friday. Really looking forward to hearing everyones research updates 😀

Lots of mis/disinformation about healthcare spending floating around on here, so I'm just putting this out there.

Proud to share our latest paper demonstrating narrative-based therapy in aphasia. All came from a wonderful master's clinician (1st author) who knew the value of this approach and executed beautifully. Lots of techniques richly described! DM for access!
pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.104…

Paper Highlight! 💡📚

From concept to practice: a scoping review of the application of AI to aphasia diagnosis and management

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #aphasia #AI #diagnosis #OpenAccess #disability #rehabilitation

⬇️ Fantastic review of post stroke emotionalism. As a clinician, I never knew what to do when someone had uncontrollable crying. There is still a lack of evidence, but suggestions are here.

Irish artist Katie Holten created a New York City Tree Alphabet, each letter of the Latin alphabet is assigned a drawing of a tree from the NYC Parks #womensart

📣 Calling all 🇬🇧UK #SpeechAndLanguageTherapists
passionate about improving rehabilitation for #FacialPalsy after #Stroke ?
Join our research study at University of Essex.
Your insights will enhance #postStrokeFacialPalsy management. Learn more & participate now!
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I would encourage every SLT working in dysphagia to read this article and reflect on the way they recommend modified texture/fluids and gain consent from patients
#dysphagia #RCSLT
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Not long left to get your abstracts in for our June RUM. If you are a clinician or researcher we would love you to share your progress with research projects. The RUM is really friendly and a great place to present for the first time. Let us know if you need any help 😊

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman #WomensArt

We talk a lot about #aphasia awareness, but what does it actually mean to be aphasia aware? Claire Bennington asked this in her first PhD study 🎉 Aphasia at UQ Australian Aphasia Association AphasiaAccess Speakability tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is a very helpful summary, what is Neurorehabilitation broken down into 12 digestible mantras. Very useful and I will share with colleagues. United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum BISWG Andrew Bateman Alyson Norman

Calling all SLTs & SLTAs 📢 Please help shape the content for the UK Stroke Forum 2024- see survey below and complete before 2nd April!

I received the Switzer Merit Fellowship in 2021 for this project & went on maternity leave in early 2022. Julianne Alexander & team diligently kept this project afloat. Read about an innovative way to evaluate inner speech in daily life in aphasia. #Proud . bit.ly/innerspeechaph…

First a baby, and then this paper, which feels a bit like Sarah Grace and my child 🤣🤣🤣 Sarah Grace Dalton and I put a lot of sweat and tears into this one! Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Our topical review, 'The neurorehabilitation of post-stroke dysphagia: Physiology and pathophysiology' is now published in The Journal of Physiology!

Link: doi.org/10.1113/JP2855…

#dysphagia #review #pathophysiology #physiology #stroke #neurorehabilitation

Dele Sasegbon