VESFA was a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a speech therapy intervention for people living with aphasia. The trial was registered with the UK trial registry, ISRCTN. Click to read about the VESFA trial.

The intervention targeted word retrieval and conversation in an 8 week program delivered via the virtual world, EVA Park. Before the trial began, a qualitative study was carried out to guide the conversation topics that would be targeted. This work was published in a paper What Conversation Topics are Meaningful to People with Aphasia? A qualitative study

The team explored what ways virtual reality has been used to rehabilitation of aphasia after stroke: The use of virtual reality in the rehabilitation of aphasia: a systematic review.

The work to develop the VESFA intervention therapy manual was also published: Developing a new aphasia therapy for a virtual world: the Virtual Elaborated Semantic Features Analysis (VESFA) intervention.

The process to check that the intervention was delivered as planned has been published: Treatment Fidelity in a Feasibility Trial of the Aphasia Intervention, Virtual Elaborated Semantic Feature Analysis.

The findings from the feasibility trial are being prepared for publication. We will share them here when they are ready.