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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 โฅ๏ธ and Black History Month ๐, so we've gathered a few resources for both. 1. โฅ๏ธ Aphasia-Friendly Heart Education: The Aphasia Instituteโs 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. ๐ฃ๏ธ 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. โจ 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. ๐ฉโ๐ป 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. ๐ 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. ๐งโ๐งโ๐งโ๐ง 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. ๐ค 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. ๐ฅ 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. ๐ฅ 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. ๐ Journal Articles: Here are some of the best journal articles we've been reading lately:
๐ 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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Megan @ Tactus Therapy
I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.
After an acquired brain injury, subtraction often breaks down before addition. Not because itโs โharder math," but because it tends to place greater demands on working memory and executive function (Dehaene et al., 2003). Try this in your head: Most people get this quickly. 5 tens plus 7 ones = 57. Let's do another: This time, you have to hold 40 in your mind, subtract 10, then subtract 7 - mentally tracking each step to get 23. Same numbers. Different cognitive load. That extra mental...
โEat a banana before you take your medication. Then we'll head to your appointment.โ The listener follows the directions, and we assume they understand every word: before, eat, banana, medication. But hereโs the thing ๐Sometimes people donโt understand every word โ they understand the situation. The time of day, the apple on the counter, and the meds beside it are all clues that help the message make sense. And people with aphasia are smart! ๐ง They often use these clues to fill in the gaps....
I love you. Be careful. What's new?Saying these simple phrases shows people that we care. ๐But for people with apraxia, it can be incredibly frustrating to get the words out. ๐ Last week, I shared our new Apraxia Treatment Guide (the one I wish Iโd had years ago) to help navigate the many evidence-based approaches for treating apraxia. Today, I want to zoom in on one practical piece of that roadmap: high-repetition practice. We know motor learning requires frequent, accurate practice with...