Using SPPARC in Aphasia Therapy - View CPD Course Programme 07/08

							DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE
Communication, Language and Speech Science (CLaSS) Unit
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Courses




                         Using SPPARC in Aphasia Therapy
                          12th March 2008          Ref: 417/08         £120        Max. No: 30
     AIM

     This course is primarily for speech and language therapists who have either attended an ‘Introduction to
     SPPARC’ course and/or have experience of using SPPARC with clients in their everyday clinical practice. The
     aim of the course is to enhance the ability of the course participants to work with data of conversations
     involving people with aphasia and their everyday conversation partners and in particular to plan and evaluate
     therapy. The course assumes some knowledge of the SPPARC acquired either from attendance at the
     ‘Introduction to SPPARC’ course and/or through use of the SPPARC in everyday clinical practice.

     OBJECTIVES
     By the end of the course participants will:
        1. have an improved ability to analyse data quickly and successfully in order to focus on the key issues
           which are relevant for therapy
        2. be able to use their analysis of aphasic conversational data in order to plan therapy focused at aphasic
           conversation
        3. have an enhanced understanding of the process of how to do therapy using the principles of the
           SPPARC
        4. be able to evaluate therapy which uses the principles of the SPPARC

     PROGRAMME OUTLINE

           9.30am             REGISTRATION
           9.45am             Issues in using SPPARC in everyday clinical practice
                              A case study of using SPPARC for therapy: process and outcomes
           11.00am            BREAK
           11.15am            Workshops: analysing aphasic conversation and planning therapy
           12.30pm            LUNCH
           1.30pm             Extending the use of SPPARC in everyday clinical practice
           3.00pm             BREAK
           3.15pm             Final issues and Discussion
           4.00pm             COURSE ENDS

                      At the end of the course participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance.

     COURSE TUTOR

     Dr. Ray Wilkinson is a speech and language therapist whose clinical and research interests focus
     primarily in people with aphasia and other acquired communication disorders and the effect of these
     disorders on everyday talk. He is senior lecturer in the Department of Human Communication Science,
     UCL and is one of the authors of the SPPARC.