🩵PPA awareness day April 10th 2026 with @annavolkmer.bsky.social and @rosemary-townsend.bsky.social
💙This years focus is on diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for people affected by PPA
🤍Head over to @ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social for more info!
#ppaawareness #primaryprogressiveaphasia
📢 We’ve extended the deadline for the @icppa.bsky.social conference call for papers to *22nd January*!
🥳 Looking forward reading all your wonderful submissions!
✍️ Submit your abstract here:
www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
@jgallee.bsky.social @fernerodgers.bsky.social @rtslt.bsky.social
@rosemary-townsend.bsky.social @rtslt.bsky.social @fernerodgers.bsky.social @briellestark.bsky.social @jgallee.bsky.social @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social @jonrohrer.bsky.social @jadecartwright.bsky.social @ingvildw.bsky.social @monicanor.bsky.social @jackiekindell.bsky.social
Only 15 days to get that abstract submitted for the 1st ever International Conference on Primary Progressive Aphasia @icppa.bsky.social
Did you know Prof Gorno-Tempini is our keynote speaker? With Dr Chris Hardy & Dr Cathy Taylor-Rubin as invited speakers!
www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
We need you:
Calling all researchers who do work in the field of primary progressive aphasia!
The first ever Int Conf on PPA 16-17th July 2026 in 🇬🇧
Only 6 weeks until the call for papers closes: www.speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
Many thanks to all those involved, including Martina Svobodova, Julia Wade, Thinklusive @markjayes.bsky.social @amymrussell.bsky.social @streweek.bsky.social @annavolkmer.bsky.social, Lay Advisory Group members and those who contributed to the workshop!
🎥 Early release! Watch our new Dementia Researcher podcast: Exploring Psychotherapy for People with Dementia. Hosted by @annavolkmer.bsky.social with Dr Alys Griffiths, Sophie Jeffery & Esther Whittlesea Reed
🧠 Discover how talking therapies can make a difference.
▶️ Watch now
youtu.be/iD4PhT_TAkg
🎥 Video version of our new podcast "Supporting Young Carers in Dementia" is out now!
@annavolkmer.bsky.social talks with Dr Patricia Masterson Algar, Hannah Gardner and Gareth & Euan Heslop about the realities faced by children caring for a parent with #dementia
youtu.be/cks3a3k2vmE
@lissbee.bsky.social @jadecartwright.bsky.social @frontier-usyd.bsky.social
Just over two weeks until our Better Conversations course in Sydney & three weeks until Perth.
Shouting out to all Speech Pathologists in NSW and WA- we’d love to see you.
And there are places still available!!!
Sign up: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
International Conference on PPA Updates: The meeting will now be July 16-17th, just after #AAIC in London, UK. The Call for Papers is ready! Abstract submissions are due 1/15/2026. speechtherapyppa.com/icppa-confer...
#ICPPA2026 #PPAResearch
@mayalhenry.bsky.social
@icppa.bsky.social
The parallel session on Rare Dementias #35AEC @alzheimereurope.bsky.social yesterday included lots of awareness raising of childhood dementia & the primary progressive aphasia @ppaphasiaawareness.bsky.social FYI PPA awareness day 2026 will be 10th April! speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...
Excited to welcome our 1,500+ delegates to 35th Alzheimer Europe Conference #35AEC in Bologna, opening this afternoon, together with our conference co-hosts Federazione Alzheimer Italia and Alzheimer Uniti Italia ONLUS
Check out our joint press release (in Italian): www.alzheimer.it/wp-content/u...
The first two papers from my PhD project are now out, with excellent help from my supervisors @annavolkmer.bsky.social and @monicanor.bsky.social! #PPA #dementia
Multilevel discourse treatment: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Communication partner training:
www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/15...
Associate Professor Anna Volkmer up next.. cultural differences in what ppl want to change about their lives with PPA. Collectivism (support from others & communicating with family) was important to ppl from 17 western countries.. further still to explore! #BASconf25 @annavolkmer.bsky.social
Better Conversations training is going down under!
@jadecartwright.bsky.social @lissbee.bsky.social @aphasiacre.bsky.social
Any Australian speech pathologists interested in attending our training:
Sydney - Monday 10th Nov
Perth - Monday 17th November
Sign up here: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences…
Holding people with dementia in connection - @jadecartwright.bsky.social lists principles for #slps to follow - starting with the importance of theory 👏👏👏 look forward to publication of this presentation hopefully in our @IJSLP journal
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support
We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.
The survey can be accessed here:
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support
We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.
The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
Oh wow! 🤩 so jealous!!!
Arrived in Upsalla for the Nordic Aphasia Conference with a bunch our wonderful Better Conversation Lab members from @uclpals.bsky.social @clinicucl.bsky.social @ingvildw.bsky.social @susieslt.bsky.social Dr Suzanne Beeke, Fern Rodgers and Claudia Matus Olivares! 😊
Thank you for having me! I also found it thought provoking and interesting 🧐
Wonderful to finally see our Oxleas SLT conference- “from birth to end of life” come together. 100 SLTs met to learn, reflect and hear from inspirational speakers
#bskyspeechies @speedoftrust27.bsky.social
@rachelbartonslt.bsky.social
@annavolkmer.bsky.social
#rcslt80
This is what they thought
There is lots on PPA and groups in there. But also this may be helpful: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support
We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.
The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...