Three members of the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology (RATS)
group spoke at the summer meeting of the Society for Research in
Rehabilitation (SRR) on Monday 5th July 2016. Professor Pam Enderby
Emeritus Professor of Community Rehabilitation gave the first Bipin
Bhakta Memorial Lecture. Pam compared the science of rehabilitation
research to the art of the performing the Tango on Strictly Come
Dancing. Discussing the importance of effective team working and
national adoption of outcome measures and audits to allow comparison and
identification of strengths and weaknesses to improve the quality of
rehabilitation services.
Dr Rebecca Palmer a Senior
Clinical Lecturer in the RATS group spoke about what people with aphasia
(a language disorder) want to say. Suggesting that whilst personally
relevant vocabulary is unique to each individual and likely to contain
specific or specialist words for which practice material needs to be
individually prepared, there is some commonality in the words selected
by people with aphasia which can be used to pre-prepare materials for
word finding therapy targeting personally relevant vocabulary.
Madeleine
Harrison a Research Associate in the RATS group presented some of the
early findings from her PhD research. The talk focused on defining and
measuring the components of a complex neuro-rehabilitation intervention
for aphasia. The qualitative research highlighted the active ingredients
of the StepByStep approach to computerised aphasia therapy and
suggestions for how the intervention fidelity should be measured within a
multi-centre trial.
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