Speech & Language Therapist w PhD Brain Injury Rehabilitation | Senior Lecturer | @NIHRresearch Advanced Fellow @TANGO_ABI. Views my own @citylcs 🇦🇺 in 🇬🇧
City, University of London
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🧠 Our course on project-based intervention for people with brain injury is back for 2026!
Learn how to use this approach + get practical resources to apply in your service.
For SLTs, OTs, neuropsychs & more 📷 Starts 28 Sept 📷
citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospect…
#BrainInjury #CPD
Pleased to share our qualitative evidence synthesis from the @TANGO_ABI study exploring the lived experience of cognitive-communication disorder after #AcquiredBrainInjury for people with ABI and their families
Click here to access for free: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Learn more about cognitive communication disorder & how to assess & manage this disorder following a brain injury.
I wrote this piece for @rcslt to help build understanding and awareness of this disorder
Click here 👉 rcslt.org/wp-content/uploads…
Great to have our first TANGO paper published.
Click the link below to access this easily for free!
New publication out now:
We identified the key “active ingredients” behind effective communication partner training for people with brain injury
Access here for free: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#AcquiredBrainInjury #SLT #Rehabilitation #BehaviourChange
🚀 New resource for therapists in brain injury
We’ve launched an online repository of project-based interventions bringing together research-informed & clinician projects.
🔎 Explore ideas and share projects
👉 blogs.city.ac.uk/potion/
Let’s make project intervention visible
Great to share where we are up to and all the research we can generated from the TANGO study.
A huge achievement and team effort from everyone involved, aimed at helping people with brain injury and cognitive communication changes, and their families!
Join us next Thursday 15 Jan
Either in-person or online as we share what we learnt about communication partner training for people with brain injury and family members!
@NIHRresearch @RCSLTResearch @NICEComms @WHO @NHSuk @HeadwayUK
1 week to go! Free half-day TANGO Showcase on 15 Jan 2026, in London & online.
We’ll share findings from a study on communication partner training after acquired brain injury, with reflections from people involved over the past 2 years.
👉Register here: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and…
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📣 Free TANGO Showcase 🗓 15 Jan 2026 | Hybrid 🔗
citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and…
#TANGOStudy #BrainInjury #CommunicationPartnerTraining #SLTResearch #Neurorehab #NIHR
@RCSLTResearch @NIHRresearch
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🧠 TANGO Study Update
What communication strategies may be taught in communication partner training after ABI?
We synthesised 200+ strategies into 40 core strategies across 6 categories, informing a clinical decision-making tool for practice
@NIHRresearch @RCSLTResearch
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You're invited to our TANGO Showcase!
Come along and hear about research in communication partner training, supporting people with cognitive communication difficulties after acquired brain injury & their families.
It's free to attend.
👉 Register here: citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and…
ALT TANGO Showcase event flyer
We have worked on two qualitative evidence syntheses which we hope to publish shortly.
Remember out TANGO Showcase Event on the 15th January 2026
👉Register here: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.c…
🎉 TANGO – Wk 3: What lived experience tells us ab communication after brain injury 🎉 @NIHRresearch
Two qualitative evidence syntheses exploring:
1️⃣ Experiences of communication partner training (CPT)
2️⃣ Lived experiences of cognitive-communication changes after ABI
This week I will present w @annahanson80 at @RCSLT annual conf on 27th Nov 1pm on Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System to describe voice & brain injury interventions
Join us in the "brain injury / cognitive communication" stream
Register here: rcslt.org/events/rcslt-confe…
Here are some further results from our @TANGO_ABI study. This is from an 🇬🇧 eDelphi study of speech therapists working with people with #braininjury
Follow our updates over the coming weeks to see the results from 2.5 years of research.
Our free showcase event will be on the 15th January 2026. Save the date and make sure you subscribe to the TANGO website to receive updates!
As our @NIHRresearch @TANGO_ABI wraps up, we’re excited to share key findings! 🎉
First up: coding of existing communication partner training (CPT) programmes using BCT Taxonomy.
Stay tuned over the coming weeks! 👀
@UKABIF @NeuroAlliance @HeadwayUK @RCSLT @RCSLTResearch
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We are looking forward to our next ICAP network meeting on 20th November at 4pm on zoom. @Gilliancapri will be sharing her learnings from piloting an online ICAP and then embedding it into their service. Join us @JeanRutter4 @KatieMonnelly @MadelineCruice @catherineoff
Thank you for presenting the @TANGO_ABI study and thanks to @NIHRresearch for funding this study!
🙏 Thankyou Jamie Gibson, Jade Sampford & Gareth Jones #ACRM2025! They shared the TANGO study – co-designed communication partner training – & how RTSS supports implementation of behaviour change interventions in rehab💡
👉blogs.city.ac.uk/tango
#Rehabilitation #BehaviorChange
🎉 Our @NIHRresearch #TANGO study image has been shortlisted for Research Image of the Year at @CityUniHealth!
Drawn by Tom Bailey, it shows our codesigners—people with brain injury, families & SLTs—creating a communication partner training programme.
👉 citystgeorges.ac.uk/research…
These recommendations and guidance provide a starting point for discussions for rehabilitation in chronic neurological conditions.
🆕NICE has recommended a standardised approach for rehabilitation, to address the variation of care experienced by millions of people with chronic neurological conditions.
Learn more⬇️
nice.org.uk/news/articles/ta…
ALT Sue Williams, NICE committee member. Quote reads: "This guideline makes a difference through highlighting the critical importance of providing an integrated, comprehensive and co-ordinated approach to rehabilitation that can support a person to live as well as possible with their condition."
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“The co-design sessions were a real highlight – I saw collaborative research in action.”
SLT student Emma Reid shares her experiences as a summer intern on the TANGO Project - from video scripts to co-chairing at a conference! tinyurl.com/summer2025intern
#NIHR #Research #SLT2B #SLT
ALT A young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes smiles at the camera. She is wearing a green top.