1/2 Collaboration of Aphasias Trialists (CATs) is delighted to announce that Professors Lucy Dipper and Madeline Cruice, both of City University of London, have been jointly appointed as Chair of the organization! Both Lucy and Madeline have made many contributions to CATs over

⏳ Join us in 15 minutes in the Great Hall! 🎤 Lucina Uddin, PhD – Keynote Speaker 🧠 Towards a Universal Taxonomy of Functional Brain Networks 📅 Fri, June 27 ⏰ 17:15–18:00 #OHBM2025

The deadline for abstracts for the BAS #aphasia conference has been extended by one week. Abstracts need to be submitted by 24th March 09:00 We’re looking forward to receiving them 😀

📷 Hooray! There is now an extra week to submit your abstracts for the #BASConf25. The deadline for submissions has been extended until 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐚𝐭 𝟗𝐚𝐦 (UK time) Follow the link for more information and to submit: https://t.co/vRDSsxLVgW

The 10-Year Health Plan needs to #MakeStrokeAPrioirity. The alternative is long-term healthcare costs for Government and more working-age stroke survivors unable to return to work. Strokes are rising in people under 55: Read our recommendations, here: https://t.co/ARXLMt9vJo

This account is branching out! To keep up to date with aphasia research and news come and follow the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists here: https://t.co/WIF1ts3LPm

This year the BAS conference will be in Dundee, Scotland, UK from 18 – 20 August 2025 Abstract submission is now open. Abstracts are invited on the theme of community. Deadline Monday 17th March 2025 at 9am GMT.

Interested in pursuing a PhD? 📅 Application deadline: 27 January 2025 More information, including funding details and how to apply: https://t.co/NpT7UAwb3v Don't miss this incredible opportunity to take the next step in your academic journey!

Excited to finally see my PhD study findings published- positive functional communication outcomes for people with #globalaphasia after a new non-linguistic cognitive intervention. Hope this inspires more research with this group @UCLLangCog @SAPHP_CCCU

Delighted that the wonderful Nicole Campbell was awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the King's New Year’s honours list. This award recognises Nicole's considerable work for and services to people with #aphasia as a trustee for the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. Magic.

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New Zealand team developed the TIDieR-Rehab checklist, a 22-item (7 original, 3 adapted, 12 new) extension of Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) to improve reporting of rehabilitation interventions, created via a modified Delphi process w/ expert input

British Aphasiology Society International Conference, Dundee. Aug 18-20th 2025. Preparations for #BASconf25 in Dundee are coming along swimmingly! The conf theme is #Community. Visit the website for more information & to sign up for updates: https://t.co/GMANU6UVy9 #Aphasia

And while it is the weekend, check out: "Weekend speech pathology services in Australian health settings: A cross-sectional survey" by @Katrina_DunnSLP Katrina Jap, @EmmaFinchSP & Pamela D’Netto now in Vol 26, Issue 5 @IJSLP #SLP #OpenAccess https://t.co/MHZlWf3P7x

We are looking for a UK based clinician w experience working with people with aphasia & an interest in language. You do not need to be a linguistic analysis expert. You do not need to have transcribed or analysed discourse before. But you should have an interest in this area.

Join us for our next seminar on Wed 30th October - Testing our patients: How can we apply therapeutic assessment in aphasia rehabilitation? Presentation by: Professor Deborah Hersh Register for your zoom link here - https://t.co/TUFMGam7KP

244 aphasia studies describe semantic therapies * 67 distinct semantic tasks reported * Semantic feature analysis used more over time, other tasks decreased We catalogued every therapeutic action reported! Active ingredients remain elusive. Open access: https://t.co/0TaINGw6PZ

Stroke clinicians & researchers the scientific and service abstract submission deadline for the European Life After Stroke Conference is fast approaching - 7 Oct. Get your submissions in. @RCOT_NP @StrokeImperial @ACPIN_UK Details here: https://t.co/htdSOiVynX

📰New Scoping Review! International author team, incl. @KaterinaHilari from @LabAphasia, described how successful conversations are currently measured with couples - with and without #aphasia 46 studies were included (24 with couples with aphasia & 22 with couples without)

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 updated Australian Aphasia Rehabilitation Pathway (AARP) Best Practice Statements (BPS) are now available to download as PDF's. All website updates will be completed in Nov 2024 Information available here - https://t.co/gG00x3xA6t

@CATs_Aphasia Fantastic and well needed resource. I will share with my @AphasiaHomeCafe. I am also in the process of creating an Awareness of Aphasia website with some people living with aphasia. So I will add this link to our Resources page which I'm sure will be very valuable.