Aphasia CRE

It’s June, it’s , which means it’s time for . Are you joining in this year?

June is Aphasia Awareness month - https://www.instagram.com/p/DZFbYvGu2n_/?igsh=M2RwdmtwZDdpMjMw

June is Aphasia Awareness Month 💜 Aphasia affects communication — not intelligence. Be patient, listen, and help make communication accessible for all. 🫶 #AphasiaAwareness #SLP #communicationforall

Register now for our June Seminar-
"I’m still a me": A proposed framework for understanding and supporting relational recovery following aphasia: the evolution of interpersonal relationships and the relational self.
Presented by Dr Amy Ford

What you will learn in this seminar:
Recent research describing the impact of aphasia on relationships.
The way in which communication and interactions with others lead to an altered sense of self following aphasia.
How the relational self changes over time after the onset of aphasia.

Amy has been a speech pathologist for 20 years working with clients in acute, rehabilitation and community settings. She completed a PhD in 2025 focusing on the experience of people with aphasia in close personal relationships and has an interest in the interaction of communication, relationships and mental health.

Register here - https://latrobe.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b4ad9zUrS-i8ItE6mf66nw

May seminar available to view on YouTube now!

Seminar 62 - Assessment in multilingual aphasia: Challenges and clinical strategies. Presentation by: Dr Monica I. Norvik

We were delighted to have Dr Monica Norvik join us to present our May Seminar. This presentation address challenges in assessing multilingual adults with aphasia and outline strategies for overcoming them. Topics include premorbid proficiency versus post-stroke abilities, self-reports, selecting appropriate tools, assessing languages clinicians do not know through interpreters, and interpreting multilingual assessment data.

Monica I. Norvik is a Professor of Speech and Language Therapy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo. She is a speech and language therapist and clinical linguist with over 20 years of clinical experience, specialising in multilingual aphasia and dementia. She leads the Multilingual Aphasia Project within the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists.

Hosted by Dr Chelsea Larkman

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We are excited to see this article published on the amazing work that Dr John Pierce is involved in using generative AI that is helping bridge the language barrier gap for people with aphasia.

#latrobealliedhealthhumanservicesandsport #latrobebusinessschool #latrobeuni #ai | School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University Research from La Trobe University's Centre For Data Analytics and Cognition and Centre for Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation has highlighted how generative AI could help in recreating fragmented language in people with communication barriers. Millions of people live with com...

IALP MENTORING PROJECT – TAVISTOCK TRUST FOR APHASIA (TTA) – CALL FOR MENTORS

CALL FOR MENTORS The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia is once again offering to support the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) to develop strategies for engaging with and providing professional development to SLTs in resource-constrained contexts. This project is coordinated by the IALP Aphasia Committee. Mentees will be emerging SLTs (in their first 7 years of clinical practice) from low- and middle-resourced countries where speech-language therapy services for people with aphasia are limited or not yet established....

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