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The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia is pleased to support two prizes presented at the UK Stroke Forum 2025
The recipients are
- Mary Pointer and Rachel Bond (Bedfordshire Community NHS Trust) won the poster prize for “Improving Access to Psychological Support after Stroke for those with Communication Difficulties”. It reported a quality improvement project to develop – with consultants with aphasia – several accessible digital resources with audio versions, to support mental health and wellbeing of patients with communication difficulties.
- Dr Mark Jayes (Manchester Metropolitan University) won the abstract prize for “The VAMCAST Study: Improving access to communication support for people with aphasia during mental capacity assessments”. This work shows the MCAST Communication Support Tool is a valid screening tool for use by a range of healthcare professionals to identify stroke survivors’ communication support needs during mental capacity assessments.
On 16 December, the Scottish Parliament held its first-ever debate on aphasia. The debate, secured by Rona Mackay MSP, marks an important step forward in raising awareness of aphasia and the real challenges faced by people living with the condition, as well as their families.
The TTA would like to congratulate Dr Abi Roper, part of our Aphasia Software Team, whose efforts were instrumental in bringing this issue to the attention of her local MSP, Michael Marra. Mr Marra also spoke during the debate (video below).
The full debate can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qatWfsiWaY
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The Aphasia Software Finder 
The Aphasia Software Finder has had a significant redesign in 2024 with the aim of making the website more aphasia friendly and thereby easier to navigate for everyone.
To learn more about what you can find and what is new on the Aphasia Software Finder, please watch this short video:
