Marion Leaman ALL-Can-Converse Aphasia Lab

So thrilled to have this second study out about ECoLoGiC Treatment! 10 more people through our study protocol and what fun the SLPs, participants and I had, chatting about all kinds of things! And they got better 😊😊😊 Thanks for the tweet ASHA journals!

Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak (Gift Article) A new training program teaches aides to stop baby talk and address older people as adults.

Language matters: training care staff to minimize elderspeak in assisted living/nursing homes led to reductions in non-compliance and use of antipsychotics among patients.

Sometimes the “affected” person isn’t the problem.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/h...

Kookaburra?

“Quit treating me like a child, I don’t like it”: Partner cueing turns in conversation restrict language, while social turns facilitate self-expression; a case study of a man with severe Broca’s aphasia and his wife During conversation, partners of people with aphasia (PWA) often use phonemic/semantic cues and ask questions with known answers, with the goal to prompt the person to talk more. However, cued turn...

Test questions & cues in conversation to ‘get people with aphasia to talk’ backfires. Hoping to raise awareness & change practice (just a little) with this labor-of-love paper.
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People are frightened & horrified. Then there are those who applaud this jackass & can’t see the severe damage he us causing. Yes, prices going up.

Rinse & stack the dinner dishes and deal with it in the morning.

The arboreteum is lovely! And museum wonderful! Have fun 😊

So wonderful to read, yet so maddening at the same time. This paper is > 50 years old & still things are the same. These are exactly the same issues we have in aphasiology…..

My students in Cog Disorders are required to complete interactability. I may be responsible for 2% of those downloads 😄. (They love it & thanks!).

Ugh ugh ugh. As current editor of a journal, I am committed to sending Qual research only to reviewers who understand Qual research (….. you may be getting a request from me 🤣🤣).
I’m so sorry about this.

Just finished reading it last night! What a coincidence!

Cancer research
Stroke researcher
Alzheimer’s research
Heart disease research
Diabetes
Hugh blood pressure
Kinda ALL research …

Happy to be in that loop!

Cliff notes version: implementation efforts lead to better training for more SLPs = better services

By con. orgs. do you mean orgs providing services/advocacy/knowledge to consumers impacted by aphasia? If so, furthering implementation of approaches with a positive impact on real-world needs of PWA/families would make such approaches more readily/globally available within these organizations. 1/2

Investing in implementation. I think that combines all 3. Huge barrier is SLPs don’t have time/training/resources/support to change practice. (Spoken as having been a practicing Slonin The US x 22 yrs).

This definitely illustrates my process! I’m so foggy before I start writing that I don’t even try to do an outline. I just start writing. This method results in lotsa drafts though….

This is so absolutely fabulous. I am so filled with joy to learn the importance of this has reached this level of awareness and support. I hope trump can’t wreck it. Thank you for sharing Jose!

You know Linda, this question does such a great job of getting to the point, I’m going to ask it of my grad students when I teach aphasia next. I imagine it will immediately shape their thinking in a way that will help them make meaningful intervention choices.

Agree!!! Those are absolutely critical priorities. Stripped down to what I’d want first, or if services were so restricted as to allow extremely minimal services (as is so often the case), I’d go with ensuring family & friends had accurate knowledge and training to communicate with my loved one.

Really good question, kinda gets right to the point, doesn’t it?
For all of them to have an SLP who could teach them how to communicate with the person.

Cultural Sensitivity and Responsiveness in Neurorehabilitation: A Personalized Approach for Speech-Language Pathologists 853 pages, B&W, Softcover, 7" x 10"

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Didn’t know you were a NP! Assumed SLP 🙃. Thanks for your terrific work!

The Hobbit was read aloud to me at about 7. I read it and LOTR to my twins when they were 5.

Let’s get this going!!!! We’ll find our people 🌟💕💪