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• RCSLT News April 2025: focus on Northern Ireland, plus updates from around the UK

  The  early May podcast for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists featuring Derek Munn, Director of Policy and Public Affairs and Ruth Sedgewick, Head of the RCSLT's Northern Ireland office.Featuring:- Language Launchpad, launching Tuesday 6 May https://www.rcslt.org/northern-ireland/language-launchpad-project/- RCSLT Northern Ireland awards - Policy and campaigns in Northern Ireland | RCSLT- General updates in Northern Ireland- What's happening around the UKThis interview was conducted by Victoria Harris, Head of Learning at The Royal College of Speech and produced and edited by freelance producer Jacques Strauss.Please be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.Please do take a few moments to respond to our podcast survey: uk.surveymonkey.com/r/LG5HC3R

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• IJLCD - Developing and piloting a functional numeracy assessment for people with aphasia

  People with aphasia can have problems understanding or using numbers in everyday life - known as functional numeracy difficulties. However, testing this is hard because there are limited published assessments for functional numeracy difficulties for people with aphasia. This study aimed to explore, validate and pilot a wide-ranging, aphasia-friendly functional numeracy assessment to investigate how functional numeracy is impacted by aphasia severity and time pressure demands, and to explore predictors of PWA's functional numeracy.The paper is:Which blueberries are better value? The development and validation of the functional numeracy assessment for adults with aphasia' https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1460-6984.12867 Kerri Ichikowitz, Carolyn Bruce, Vanessa Meitanis, Kelly Cheung, Yekyung Kim, Esther Talbourdet, Caroline NewtonFirst published: 13 March 2023This paper was awarded the IJLCD student prize.Resources:If you would like access to the online version of the Functional Numeracy Assessment, please contact the study authors.The intervention study: Newton, C., Meitanis, V., Bruce, C., & Donlan, C. (2025). Evaluation of the SWAN game-based approach to re-building numeracy skills in aphasia: Feasibility and preliminary findings. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/f7d39_v1 The survey of SLTs: Newton, C., Brancamp, D., & Brancamp, T. (2025). The rehabilitation of numerical processing and calculation in aphasia: An international survey of speech-language pathologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g63j9_v1 Please be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.Please do take a few moments to respond to our podcast survey: uk.surveymonkey.com/r/LG5HC3R

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• RCSLT News March 2025: impact of NHSE closing; curriculum and assessment review; campaigns and more

  The March news podcast for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists featuring Derek Munn. Potential impact of the scrapping of NHS England.Primary Progressive Aphasia event in Parliament and awareness today 4 April. https://www.rcslt.org/news/parliamentary-event-to-shine-a-light-on-primary-progressive-aphasia/Hopes for the Spring statement.Curriculum and assessment review published their interim findings. See more: https://www.rcslt.org/news/response-to-curriculum-and-assessment-reviews-interim-findings/Education select on SEND and white paper.Scottish rights report.Voicebox competition in Scotland – send in your joke by 1 April https://www.rcslt.org/scotland/voicebox/ This interview was conducted by Victoria Harris, Head of Learning at The Royal College of Speech and produced and edited by freelance producer Jacques Strauss.Please be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.Please do take a few moments to respond to our podcast survey: uk.surveymonkey.com/r/LG5HC3R

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• ILJCD: Barriers and Facilitators to Communication Partner Training

  How can we best implement communication partner training with familiar partners of people with aphasia?In this International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders paper the authors set out to:(1) determine the perceived and/or observed barriers and facilitators to implementing CPT with familiar partners of adults with aphasia;(2) to map extracted barriers and facilitators to a common theoretical framework; (3) to synthesise extracted barriers and facilitators; and (4) to identify potential implementation strategies to address the most frequently identified barriers and facilitators. Authors Kirstine Shrubsole, Emma Power, Marie-Christine Hallé were awarded the IJLCD 2023 Editors' prize for this paper. The paper is:Communication partner training with familiar partners of people with aphasia: A systematic review and synthesis of barriers and facilitators to implementationKirstine Shrubsole, Emma Power, Marie-Christine HalléExamples of free, brief online training programs (less than 2 hours) Aphasia Institute Community Hub: Introduction to SCA™ eLearning Module, The Aphasia Institute, Canadahttps://www.aphasia.ca/health-care-providers/education-training/self-directed-elearning/ An aphasia-focused, 40 minute module centred on Supported Communication principles. interact-ABI-lity, University of Sydney and University of Technology, Australiahttps://abi-communication-lab.sydney.edu.au/courses/interact-abi-lity/An acquired brain injury focused module (Stroke, Traumatic brain injury and other neurological conditions) covering cognitive communication difficulties, aphasia, dysarthria and alternative and augmentative communication.For the article referring to online versus face-to-face here is the IJLCD article reference.Power, E., Falkenberg, K., Barnes, S., Elbourn, E., Attard, M., & Togher, L. (2020). A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing online versus face-to-face delivery of an aphasia communication partner training program for student healthcare professionals. International journal of language & communication disorders, 55(6), 852–866. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12556First published: 23 November 2022Please be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.Please do take a few moments to respond to our podcast survey: uk.surveymonkey.com/r/LG5HC3R

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• RCSLT News February 2025: waiting lists grow; key events in Scotland; Speech and language therapy issues across the UK

  The February news podcast for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists featuring Derek Munn. Published 27 February 2025.We look at recent concerning news about growing waiting lists in adult community speech and language therapy in England, and also see how waiting lists compare across the UK.See statement: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGBH1T1IdnW/ Derek gives an update on key topics keeping his team busy right now and we have a look at closer look at things happening in Scotland.This interview was conducted by Victoria Harris, Head of Learning at The Royal College of Speech and produced and edited by freelance producer Jacques Strauss.Please be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.Please do take a few moments to respond to our podcast survey: uk.surveymonkey.com/r/LG5HC3R

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