Final seminar of 2022

 

We would like to invite you to the final event of 2022 in the UCL Health Communication Network’s seminar series.

• Date: 15^th December 2022, 1-2pm GMT
• Location: UPDATE: Due to the railway strikes and weather conditions, this Thursday’s Health Communication Network seminar will now be held virtually, via zoom only. See link below.

On this occasion we will host two presenters from PALS for a presentation of 30-40mins with time for discussion afterwards.

Communication difficulties in interaction: The application of Conversation Analysis

Suzanne Beeke and Steven Bloch, Dept of Language and Cognition

A significant number of people in the health care system have communication difficulties and needs. These can arise as a result of developmental or acquired disorders such as stroke, Parkinson’s or dementia. The evidence base has been informed largely by a focus on impairments of speech, language and cognition rather than communication in context such as health care interactions or conversations between family members. In this presentation we will introduce applied Conversation  Analysis (CA) and how we use it to understand the impact of communication difficulties on peer interactions and to develop healthcare interventions to facilitate ‘Better Conversations’. We will present video examples from aphasia (a communication difficulty commonly caused by stroke) and dysarthria (a speech disorder caused by motor neurone disease). tinyurl.com/BetterConversationslab

Live stream link for those who can’t attend: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98164550979?pwd=T0JoNTV0Y3MvUjRTa1YrTkljd3Qwdz09 (Passcode: 053572)

 

As ever, please get in touch (z.demjen@ucl.ac.uk) if you would like to share your work with the Network at one of our sessions. And feel free to send this message on to your colleagues and students at UCL who work on relevant topics.