S2 Ep 6: Aphasia Awareness

The Brainy Speech Therapist Podcast

June 2022 is Aphasia Awareness Month, so Jan and Helen took this as a cue to chat about aphasia, how speech and language therapists identify areas of difficulty, ways to support a person with aphasia, and a couple of key intervention strategies. There's lots of further resources to access: Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland https://www.chss.org.uk The Stroke Association https://www.stroke.org.uk Better Conversations with Aphasia https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/product?catalog=UCLXBCA Aphasia Access https://www.aphasiaaccess.org https://tactustherapy.com/mor-multiple-oral-rereading-how-to/ https://honeycombspeechtherapy.com/script-training/ Communication access UK https://communication-access.co.uk/ Some interesting training opportunities too: UCL Aphasia Symp May 2022 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/events/2022/may/cnr-aphasia-symposiumqueen-square Webinar: The Neurobiology of Language Recovery in Stroke-Aphasia, https://asha.figshare.com/articles/presentation/2018_ASHA_Research_Symposium_Cynthia_K_Thompson_Recovery_of_Sentence_Processing_in_Aphasia/10257587?file=18535703 Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program: training days Oct 2022 Applying ICAP approach to your Clinical Practice [e-mail]