We are delighted to announce that the Speech and Language Therapist survey of discourse analysis in aphasia was approved by the City, University of London Language and Communication Science Proportionate Review Ethics Committee on 07/08/2018. The survey will be live from the 10th August until 15th November.
To participate, Speech and Language Therapists need to be qualified, currently practising in the UK, and working in rehabilitation with patients/ clients with aphasia. The survey can be found at the following link. This link takes you to the Participant Information Sheet (which is online) and the Consent Form (which must be completed online), and the survey.
In short, the survey will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. It has 49 questions (14 demographic, 35 discourse, almost all “tick box”; and an additional 3 screening questions and 2 final optional questions).The questions are about whether therapists do or don’t carry out discourse analysis, what helps and hinders, and what their general views are about it and its feasibility in the clinical setting.
The findings from the survey will inform Phase 3 of the LUNA project, where a LUNA discourse assessment and therapy programme will be codesigned with people with chronic aphasia and Speech and Language Therapists.
If you have any queries or requests for further information, please don’t hesitate to contact us by email or via Twitter.