Exciting news!!! Apply here ✍️ We have a new PhD studentship starting in September at UCL - focusing Better Conversations with primary progressive aphasia Better Conversations. With me, Better Conversations Lab & Dr Chris Hardy supervising. Applications due: 28th May ucl.ac.uk/pals/divisiona…

The UCL Language & Cognition PhD conference has gotten off to a flying start - the wonderful Claudia Olivares Matus presenting exciting work developing cultural adaptations of Better Conversations Lab for Latin America & Richard Talbot (rtslt.bsky.social) discussing his review on telehealth interventions in dementia for Better Conversations developments!

Happy to have the opportunity to present the progress of my first 8 months of PhD at the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Conference. Special thanks to my wonderful supervisors Better Conversations Lab and Dr Anna Volkmer UCL PaLS PPG

It's been an amazing first 8 months, Claudia - you're a star, people with #aphasia and #SLT in Latin America are so lucky to have you on their side, flying the flag for communication partner training! #BetterConversationsLab

I have laid the 1st stone in preparation for #aphasiaawareness month tomorrow- it’s outside Chandler House where we train our wonderful UCL speech & language therapy UCL Language & Cognition UCL students Rocking Aphasia - find & retweet if u can Better Conversations Lab Professor Steven Bloch Richard Talbot (rtslt.bsky.social) Claudia Bruns Kerry Dathan Claudia Olivares Matus

No metieron presa a Cathy Barriga por robar 30 mil millones de pesos, y Hermosilla sigue libre a pesar de levantar una red de corrupción, pero meten a la cárcel a Daniel Jadue por vender remedios a un precio justo. La Fiscalía y Tribunales están comprados por la derecha política.

Approx 60 #stroke professionals @WelshStrokeConf - minus the #SLT in room, only 3 had training in communicating well w stroke survivors w communication difficulties. Communication partner training is wanted #COMSTAR Professor Madeline Cruice Rebecca Palmer Dr. Ciara Shiggins 1/2

Entrenamiento a Compañeros de Comunicación en Personas con Afasia uchile.cl/m217532 via Universidad de Chile #afasia Communication Partner Training for People with Aphasia. #aphasiaawarenessmonth

So proud of Dr Anna Volkmer for being the most awesome person w an unending drive to engage with people w lived experience of #dementia through her research - the #BetterConvetsationsLab is very lucky to have you! UCL Language & Cognition philip robinson 🍊 @pxrobbo.bsky.social Professor Steven Bloch Alzheimer's Society DRC@UCL

Very happy to be part of this fantastic pice of work - the first to really document dysphagia in PPA (lots more work to be done here!!) thanks to Salvatore Mazzeo & the wonderful Jason Warren Brain Behaviour Group Dementia Researcher Dementia SLTs SLT Dementia Network doi.org/10.1111/ene.16…

Recuerden que la encuesta sigue abierta. Participa y comparte. Remember that this survey is still open. If you know SLTs from Chile 🇨🇱 Peru 🇵🇪 Colombia 🇨🇴 Argentina 🇦🇷 Costa Rica 🇨🇷 o Mexico 🇲🇽 share this! Better Conversations Lab Dr Anna Volkmer Departamento de Fonoaudiología UChile Colfono Chile Asofon Colombia

Seguimos reclutando colegas para participar en esta encuesta. Participa y comparte!

Este hilo es de los más horrendos que he leído y al mismo tiempo de los más necesarios de leer por el machismo y la misoginia normalizada en nuestra sociedad. La cultura del abuso y la violación está ahí, al lado, donde menos lo esperas 😔

Arrived in Upsalla for the Nordic Aphasia Conference with a bunch our wonderful Better Conversation Lab members from UCL speech & language therapy UCL Better Conversations Lab Better Conversations Susie Williams Ingvild Winsnes, Fern Rodgers and Claudia Olivares Matus! 😊

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 🙌🏼 Dr Anna Volkmer Better Conversations Lab UCL Language & Cognition