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Our results highlight that motor impairment in addition to cognitive and behavioural symptoms should be considered when estimating prognosis in genetic frontotemporal dementia. Individual risk scores ...

Conference registration for the International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia (ICPPA) 2026 in London, UK. July 16-17th, 2026.

Conference registration for the International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia (ICPPA) 2026 in London, UK. July 16-17th, 2026.

Principles into practice: Supporting connectedness in PPA

Current monologic discourse tasks used in aphasia assessment often rely on outdated, decontextualized materials that do not adequately reflect the everyday communication demands, identities, or pri...

Research Showcase - Annika Dhawan - Improving Palliative Dementia Care at Home

CALL FOR MENTORS The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia is once again offering to support the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) to develop strategies for engaging with and providing professional development to SLTs in resource-constrained contexts. This project is coordinated by the IALP Aphasia Committee. Mentees will be emerging SLTs (in their first 7 years of clinical practice) from low- and middle-resourced countries where speech-language therapy services for people with aphasia are limited or not yet established.

This is the first study to describe how speech and language therapists (SLTs) support people with aphasia during decision-making conversations and mental capacity assessments across countries.Conve...

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Conference registration for the International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia (ICPPA) 2026 in London, UK. July 16-17th, 2026.

Background Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with receptive and expressive language, which can affect their participation in everyday interactions with othe...

INTRODUCTION Assessments of communication for people living with primary progressive aphasia (PwPPA) remain limited. This work describes the development of a strengths-based, ecologically valid inst...

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Introduction by Sarah McClinton  I was so impressed when I heard about the Live More initiative in Greater Manchester and would like to thank Neil Crowther for this blog, which I am delighted to intro...