The Trustees of The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia warmly congratulate Gill Pearl, a previous recipient of the Robin Tavistock Award (shared with Speakeasy), on being honoured with this year’s Pippa Tyrrell Award for her outstanding contribution to stroke care. The award, presented by Professor Craig Smith, acknowledged Gill’s exceptional work in Greater Manchester. “For many years, she has worked…
They have been helping test the MCAST – a new communication test which shows hospital staff how to help people with communication difficulties to make decisions. The researchers needed to know how effective the test was. The group from Speakeasy helped to test it and record videos to train …
This week is national volunteers week. As always, we would like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers at Speakeasy. All have worked so hard this year to support the work of Speakeasy and people impacted by aphasia. We are hugely grateful to …