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Hello! It's time again for our biannual round-up of resources for medical speech pathology. February is Heart Health Month β₯οΈ and Black History Month π, so we've gathered a few resources for both. 1. β₯οΈ Aphasia-Friendly Heart Education: The Aphasia Instituteβs Talking About series covers many topics. Try the Heart Health edition to help patients learn how to care for their ticker. (Save 25% on all resources through March with code "25OFF"!) 2. π£οΈ Weekly Aphasia Programming: The National Aphasia Association hosts free virtual events for young adults with aphasia, technology enthusiasts, PPA caregivers, and more. The Black American Aphasia Connection meets every other Monday. 3. β¨ Research Reviews: "What SLPs Need to Know" is our new article series that brings you well-researched information in an easy-to-read format. Our latest deep dives cover apraxia of speech, acalculia, and the clinical swallow evaluation. 4. π©βπ» Aphasia Education: If you're on board with the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA), you're going to want to attend the first Aphasia Access Chautauqua. It's a virtual learning event for SLPs that runs April 15-18. 5. π Wearable Device for Dysarthria: The Revoice device, being developed at Cambridge, shows potential for AI to interpret what dysarthric patients are silently mouthing with impressive early results 6. π§βπ§βπ§βπ§ A Family PROM: Check out this free online assessment of third-party functioning and disability. It's the FAMLI, or Family Aphasia Measure of Life Impact. 24 questions to determine how the aphasia impacts others. 7. π€ Free DEI CEUs: Up your cultural awareness with these 4 free education sessions on Feb 22 from SpeechTherapyPD and #BlackSLPMagic called Culture, Care, & Knowledge: Advancing Equity in Speech-Language Pathology. 8. π₯ We're on TikTok! You may have noticed more video reels if you follow us on Instagram or Facebook. Those are all coming from our TikTok account, where Shezena would love to connect with you. (Help her hit her goal of 2,000 followers!) 9. π₯ Health Equity: Read 8 ways SLPs can contribute to health equity: the case of Black stroke survivors with aphasia, a recent open-access publication from the late Dr. Seles Gadson, who partnered with us for our feature on the same topic a few years ago. 10. π Journal Articles: Here are some of the best journal articles we've been reading lately:
π What's Launching Soon in the Virtual Rehab Center:This month, we're launching a subtraction treatment, then in March, you'll get:
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Tactus Therapy
We're a speech therapy software company making evidence-based treatment for adults with stroke, brain injury, and other conditions more accessible.
In my last email, I left you with a mystery. Grandma. Raccoon. Garage. Our patient was trying to tell a story. We had some nouns, but desperately needed a verb. (Missed the last email? π Read it here.) Well, we finally have an answer... Grandma was trying to trap the raccoon! And now we know, because Strengthening Verb Networks is live in the Virtual Rehab Center. π Strengthening Verb Networks is based on VNeST principles: generating agents and patients for a verb to strengthen its semantic...
In non-fluent aphasia, nouns tend to dominate verbal communication. It makes sense. They're concrete, visible, and easy to picture. But then your patient tries to tell you something:βGrandma. Raccoon. Garage.β Wait, what?!I need a verb. Immediately. Did Grandma feed the raccoon? Befriend the raccoon? Trap him? Name him? π§ Why verbs are harder "Apple" is a simple object. You can draw it, hold it, picture it instantly. "Kick" refuses to sit still. It's a soccer ball flying through the air, a...
Your brain keeps two records of everything you read. One stores the gist. This is the meaning, the shape of it, what it was roughly about. The other stores the verbatim trace: the actual words, the specific details, the data point in the third paragraph. The gist is durable. It sticks around, gets consolidated into long-term memory, and becomes part of what you "know." The verbatim trace is fragile. It starts degrading almost immediately. To be fair, it's supposed to. Retaining every word of...