Dr Anna Volkmer

🩵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!

YouTube video by Dementia Researcher Exploring Psychotherapy for People with Dementia

🎥 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

YouTube video by Dementia Researcher Navigating the Challenges of Young Carers in Dementia

🎥 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

Training Courses and Events Upcoming Better Conversations events are advertised here. The Better Conversations conference is held every two years. We run communication partner training approximately twice per year.

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

Training Courses and Events Upcoming Better Conversations events are advertised here. The Better Conversations conference is held every two years. We run communication partner training approximately twice per year.

Thanks for flagging- here is the link again:
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

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

Group interventions for people with primary progressive aphasia and their care partners: Considerations for clinical practice Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) describes a group of language-led dementias. Speech and language therapy is the main available intervention for people with PPA. Despite best practice recommendati...

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_...