ANCDS Podcasts

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 3 - An Interview With Leanne Togher: speechBITE and Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice Professor Leanne Togher is a speech pathologist and researcher based at The University of Sydney, Australia. She is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow and Principal Research Fellow of The University of Sydney. Leanne specialises in communication disorders following traumatic brain injury and stroke. Her research examines treatment efficacy and communication partner training for families, friends and carers of people with acquired brain injury. Leanne is also the Director of the evidence based practice speechBITE website (speechbite.com). Information about TBI Express partner training can be found at http://sydney.edu.au/health-sciences/tbi-express/

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 2 - An Interview With Felicity Bright: The Patient’s Engagement and Experience with You, the Speech Pathologist Felicity Bright is a speech and language therapist and lecturer at Aukland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Felicity’s research is situated at the intersections of rehabilitation, professional practice and clinical education. Her current research focuses on how students and rehabilitation providers interact with and engage people in rehabilitation. In this episode, we discussed what engagement is, how to assess and promote it, along with the role of the therapeutic relationship and hope. Felicity can be found on twitter at @flissbright or at https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/health-sciences/physiotherapy/lecturers/felicity-bright. The following open-access papers related to our conversation are available for download: "A conceptual review of engagement in healthcare and rehabilitation": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/9453 "Implementing a client-centred approach in rehabilitation: An autoethnography": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/9469 "Hope in people with aphasia": https://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/5815

ANCDS Podcast Ep. 1 - Interview with Dr. Julius Fridriksson: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and the Treatment of Persons with Aphasia Topic: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Treatment of Persons with Aphasia Speaker: Julius Fridriksson, Ph.D. Professor Director, Aphasia Laboratory University of South Carolina Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Arnold School of Public Health Columbia, SC 29208