Computerised Aphasia Therapy for Chronic Aphasia (CATChES) 

 

CATChES explores the effectiveness and usability of self-delivered iPad app speech therapy in a chronic aphasia population. By coupling neuropsychological data with functional imaging, this project explores the relationship between inner speech in chronic aphasia and functional speech improvement after using the iPad-based therapy.

Research from this study has been presented in the Oral Session of Rehabilitation and Reorganisation by its lead research, Brielle Stark, at the European Stroke Conference in Vienna (May 2015), was selected as a keynote presentation at the University of Cambridge Vice Chancellor’s Garden Party (2014), and won the best 2nd/3rd year PhD poster at the Graduate School for Life Sciences exhibition (April 2015).

This study has finished recruiting, and will be submitted as a full dissertation in early 2016.