The iTalkBetter clinical trial is out: tinyurl.com/5up6cc7m It's a self-supporting naming app that helps people with aphasia make large gains in their ability to retrieve trained words. Connected speech also improved and iTalkBetter use caused changes in brain volume #aphasia

Moving interview on #BBC5 with Caroline (person with aphasia) and Beth (speech and language therapist) on their transformative experiences of taking part in the Queen Square ICAP. Scroll forward to 2hr 24mins. The National Brain Appeal UCLH NHNN Therapy & Rehabilitation

Hear Caroline talking about her experiences of having aphasia and of being on the Queen Square ICAP on BBC Radio 4's The World at One (36m:26s) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Our latest ICAP paper is out, More than one way to improve a CAT: Outcomes and reflections on two iterations of the Queen Square ICAP: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Including a 60-page operating manual 🙏The National Brain Appeal The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia UCLH ⁩ ⁦UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology ⁩ ⁦NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre

Less than 3 weeks to go to our 10-year CNR anniversary@Queen Square. Sign up for free here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cnr-10-ucl-c…

If we want people with #aphasia to use our therapy apps, then we'd better make sure they are involved in designing them. Great co-design work from Tom Langford the UCL Neurotherapeutics team and software developer Pedro Quijada Leyton. Kudos to @ZWoodhead and Dr Sheila Kerry who laid the groundwork.

What do people with #aphasia want from our ICAP at Queen Square UCL UCLh?
Authored by: Catherine Doogan Beth Gooding Jenny Crinion
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Ever wondered how a patient's sense of self-belief might affect their outcomes? Come and hear Dr Steve Fleming talk about it on Thurs 21st April 17:30 in person @QueenSquare or online. Free registration.
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Four short neuro rehab talks at 5.30pm tomorrow. Free sign up on eventbrite.

One way to provide higher doses is to set up Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programmes. Jenny Crinion is presenting our work on this from the ICAP set up at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and NHNN Therapy & Rehabilitation at UK Stroke Forum now #UKSF21 #UKSFaphasia

Not surprising perhaps, but more high-level meta-analysis-based evidence (from 959 people with aphasia) that we need to provide much higher doses of speech and language therapy if we want to make the lives of people with aphasia better. #RELEASE #asphasia tinyurl.com/bdenkk24

Key points from Catherine Doogan and my recent position piece on Rethinking damaged cognition ACNR - A journal of neurology & rehabilitation: acnr.co.uk/issue/acnr-vol….

Thrilled to hear UCL Neurotherapeutics getting big shout out from Prof Michael Hanna in annual address mentioning the work of Tom Langford #iReadMore app and work of NeuroRehabilitation OnLine @ Queen Square funded by SameYou. 🤗🧠

Excited to see this important work published! I am very grateful to the team for letting me be part of such a great project, and Alexander Leff for kindly acknowledging me as joint lead author. Hoping the growing evidence will ensure the service becomes available on the NHS 🧠

Can #aphasia therapy be gamified? 🤔
We collaborated with people with aphasia and games developers to implement this novel approach in Listen-In! Check it out here 👉 bit.ly/3y8MhvU
@BrownsettHill Alexander Leff Dr Victoria Fleming Andrea Castegnaro and the Soft-V team

Our latest evidence-based therapy app for patients with aphasia and problems understanding speech is out. See here for academic commentary: jnnp.bmj.com/content/92/4/3…

Listen up! Listen-In has launched! Evidence based spoken word comprehension therapy for people with #aphasia . Try it now here: tinyurl.com/n4h2fzdj Dr Victoria Fleming Alexander Leff @BrownsettHill Andrea Castegnaro UCL Brain Sciences

For those of you wanting a more digestible account of the evidence-base behind our newly-released reading therapy app iReadMore, for people with reading problems caused by stroke or dementia. See the video I made with @ZWoodhead about our 2018 Brain paper:
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iReadMore therapy app is out now. It is designed for patients with acquired alexia (reading problems) caused by focal brain injury (e.g. stroke) or dementia. Mass-practice with trial-by-trial feedback. Evidence-based and peer-reviewed.

Important work from Dr Victoria Fleming and UCL Neurotherapeutics team. Key points:
1. App delivered spoken word therapy for aphasic patients works
2. Large effect sizes on trained items
3. Therapy leads to structural changes in patients' auditory cortices
4. App released later this year
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