Clinical intervention in neuroscience and aphasia
Current research
- Aphasia therapy for people with acute, chronic and degenerative presentations/ conditions (CVA, Alzheimer’s disease, semantic dementia)
- Primary systems/interactive/connectionist models of language processing applied to the assessment and treatment of aphasia
- The interaction between levels of communicative functioning: naming, sentence production, discourse and conversation
- Conversation analysis and its application to the assessment and treatment of aphasia and related disorders
- Learning theory and its application to the assessment and treatment of aphasia and related disorders
- Reading and spelling assessment, treatment, models of processing
- Longitudinal studies of language and reading recovery
