The CommuniCATE project has a themed session at this year’s BAS Therapy Symposium (Bristol, 13th and 14th September 2017). Abstract: The CommuniCATE project at City, University of London is exploring the use of computer technologies in therapy for approximately eighty…
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CommuniCATE Project Dissemination Day, 6th Sept 2017
This event will celebrate the achievements of the CommuniCATE project and will present initial findings to people who have participated. Many people with aphasia have taken part in CommuniCATE and received speech and language therapy. Forty-eight speech and language therapy…
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Reading and Writing Technologies Workshop, 18th May 2017
CommuniCATE research SLTs Katie Chadd, Katie Monnelly and Anna Caute travell to Bristol on Thursday 18th May to present a workshop at the Computers in Therapy Clinical Excellence Network (CIT CEN). The workshop focused on reading and writing technologies, giving…
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Training Session on Technology in Speech Therapy
The CommuniCATE team held a training session on using Skype in Speech and Language Therapy on Wednesday 21st September 2016. It was attended by 25 Speech and Language Therapists, volunteers, Occupational Therapists and Rehabilitation Support Workers. They had a conversation…
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Aphasia Software Finder
Interested in technology for aphasia? Have a look at the latest version of the Aphasia Software Finder, developed with funding from The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia. (No connection to CommuniCATE, we just think it’s a valuable resource.)
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Secondment to Royal London Hospital
Anna Caute, researcher on CommuniCATE, is currently located at the Royal London Hospital in Tower Hamlets, part of Barts Health NHS Trust. In keeping with the ethos of the Community Stroke Team where she is based, she visits participants in…
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Workshop at IARC 2016
Find out more about using technology in aphasia therapy: CommuniCATE will run a workshop titled “Using Technology in Aphasia Therapy to Facilitate Reading and Writing” at the International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference, December 2016.
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Interns join CommuniCATE
An important aim of CommunCATE is to enhance the training of new entrants to the Speech and Language Therapy profession. In line with this aim, the project has created two internships for newly qualified SLTs. The interns will be involved…
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Mentor of the Year Award for Katie
We are very proud that Katie Monnelly received a Mentor of the Year award for “individual practice educator” from the School of Health Sciences at City University London. The award recognised the work that Katie has been undertaking with speech…
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ASLTIP Conference 2016
Another presentation from the CommuniCATE team. Katie Monnelly and Anna Caute were in action at the ASLTIP 2016 conference, where they gave a talk on “Skype Therapy and Aphasia”.
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