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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