First look: Our new UTILISE App logo!

The UTILISE team are delighted to share our new logo that will be used for our app!

We have been working with Therapy Box to develop an app version of our intervention.

The app will allow people with aphasia to practice our therapy tasks from home. This kind of tele-therapy offers the opportunity to deliver high intensity at low cost.

Later this year we will be running a feasibility trial of the app. If you, or someone you know, has aphasia and would be interested in taking part in the trial, please contact us for more information and to be added to the waiting list.

What do you think of our new logo? Comment below!

UTILISE App logo

Upcoming Talk - Rosemary Varley at ASLTIP

What’s new in sentence therapy for aphasia? “I don’t know”.

On Thursday the 31st of March, 2022, our UTILISE project PI, Professor Rosemary Varley, will be giving a talk at the Association of Speech and Language Therapists in Independent Practice (ASLTIP) “Therapy Talks” event.

Professor Varley will give an overview of the usage-based Construction Grammar that informs our novel intervention for sentence processing in post-stroke aphasia, and discuss why it is a useful framework for speech and language therapy.

Construction Grammar argues that constructions are the fundamental building blocks of language. Constructions can be fixed, ‘concrete’ words or phrases that are used often and stored in memory as whole chunks, or more abstract ‘skeletons’ which leave room for different lexical items to fit into ‘open slots’.

We are very much looking forward to this opportunity to share our work with clinicians in the field. For more information on the other expert speakers invited to present that day, and to book a ticket, check out the event page here.