PLORAS updates
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
- 18 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price gave a keynote lecture entitled ‘Connecting fMRI to Lesion Studies’ at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Conference, Seattle.
- 27 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price presented ‘Towards a Clinical Application of PLORAS’ and Louise Lim presented a summary of the PLORAS focus groups (see here ) at the Neurology Staff Round, Newcastle University Medical School.
- 15 August 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at Maldon and Dengie Stroke Support Group.
- 13 September 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at the Stroke Association Lewisham group.
- 17 September 2012: Members of Speakeasy (an aphasia charity) took part in a focus group to give feedback on the PLORAS website, to help make it as accessible as possible for stroke survivors with aphasia.
- Rachel Browne held an exhibition stand at the British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference in Manchester (9-11 September 2013) – giving information on the PLORAS project listening to feedback, and advising clinicians how to get involved via the Stroke Research Network. See pictures below and a video here .
The PLORAS project (Language Group) also featured in the Different Strokes Summer Newsletter in an article where research participant Penny, who has aphasia, explains why she chose to take part in PLORAS. Different Strokes is a charity for younger stroke survivors. You can read it here. The newsletter goes out to 12,000+ people and is then also downloadable from the Different Strokes website and they put a link on their Facebook group and Twitter.