BAS Clinical Symposium September 2019

Oh dear oh dear. LUNA subscribers we are sorry. We realise we have not posted project news for months now. And somehow we are already in March 2020 (and our world is suddenly very different). Prior to COVID-19, we have been extremely busy at LUNA Headquarters getting our ducks in a row for our final phase (our experimental feasibility study) and some important activities like keeping everyone updated have fallen by the wayside. We apologise. We’re going to make amends now, and share news more regularly. For this post, we are going to turn the clocks back to September 2019, where LUNA was in fine force in Norwich at the University of East Anglia for the British Aphasiology Society Clinical Symposium organised by Dr Ciara Shiggins and committee.

We submitted two abstracts and were delighted to find them accepted as a lightning talk and a poster. Simon Grobler and Richard Talbot presented on behalf of the speech and language therapist co-design team and talked about the techniques used in the co-design sessions, the influence therapists have had on developing LUNA, and the challenges and benefits. Lynn Scarth and Madeleine Pritchard presented on behalf of the consultants with aphasia co-design team and talked about the ethos underpinning the sessions, the methods used, the activities experienced, and the benefits of being involved. Finally, we were privileged to be invited for a keynote lecture, and Madeline Cruice presented on behalf of the whole LUNA team on the evidence and expertise in discourse-oriented aphasia rehabilitation. Working on discourse in assessment and treatment is definitely the road less travelled in aphasia rehabilitation, however it was terrific to share some headline findings from our systematic review of the discourse treatment research literature and our survey of therapists reported practice in discourse assessment (THANK YOU to everyone who completed it in 2018!). You can find out more about these presentations at our link here:

https://wakelet.com/wake/d3720da7-482e-4f6b-8cdb-a29ff77ab243

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