Using conversation analysis to inform role play and simulated interaction in communications skills training for healthcare professionals: identifying avenues for further …

A Pilnick, D Trusson, S Beeke, R O'Brien… - BMC medical …, 2018 - Springer
Background This paper responds to previously published debate in this journal around the
use of sociolinguistic methods in communication skills training (CST), which has raised the …

A bibliometrix-based visualization analysis of international studies on conversations of people with aphasia: Present and prospects

W Wei, Z Jiang - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of people with aphasia due to
brain lesions worldwide, which has prompted researchers to carry out in-depth studies on …

Toward neurodiversity: How conversation analysis can contribute to a new approach to social communication assessment

B Yu, L Sterponi - Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: The purpose of this clinical focus article was to illustrate the potential of employing
conversation analysis (CA) as a method for assessing social communication that is …

Using the Medical Research Council framework and public involvement in the development of a communication partner training intervention for people with primary …

A Volkmer, A Spector, K Swinburn, JD Warren, S Beeke - BMC geriatrics, 2021 - Springer
Background Primary progressive aphasia is a language-led dementia resulting in a gradual
dissolution of language. Primary progressive aphasia has a significant psychosocial impact …

Results from a randomised controlled pilot study of the Better Conversations with Primary Progressive Aphasia (BCPPA) communication partner training program for …

A Volkmer, H Walton, K Swinburn, A Spector… - Pilot and feasibility …, 2023 - Springer
Background There has been a growing focus on functional communication interventions for
primary progressive aphasia (PPA). These interventions aim to support individuals to …

Conversation as an outcome of aphasia treatment: A systematic scoping review

JH Azios, B Archer, N Simmons-Mackie… - American Journal of …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Conversation-focused speech-language pathology services are a top priority for
people living with aphasia, but little is known about how researchers measure conversation …

Complexity in measuring outcomes after communication partner training: Alignment between goals of intervention and methods of evaluation

C Saldert, LR Jensen, M Blom Johansson… - Aphasiology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Researchers are currently discussing the need for consensus on a core set of
outcome measures to assess interventions in aphasia. For indirect, environmental …

Towards efficient, ecological assessment of interaction: A scoping review of co‐constructed communication

M Carragher, Z Mok, G Steel, P Conroy… - … Journal of Language …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The complexity of communication presents challenges for clinical assessment,
outcome measurement and intervention for people with acquired brain injury. For the …

The 'Better Conversations with Primary Progressive Aphasia (BCPPA)'program for people with PPA (Primary Progressive Aphasia): protocol for a randomised …

A Volkmer, A Spector, JD Warren, S Beeke - Pilot and feasibility studies, 2018 - Springer
Background Primary progressive aphasia is a language-led dementia, often associated with
frontotemporal dementia. It presents as insidious deterioration of language skills (eg naming …

Better conversations: a language and communication intervention for aphasia in posterior cortical atrophy

A Volkmer, C Farrington-Douglas, S Crutch, S Beeke… - Neurocase, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) describes a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized by
progressive difficulties in cortical visual and other posterior cortical functions consistent with …