The CommFit app was featured on TEN news at 5 recently. The segment involved our lead researcher, Caitlin Brandenburg, a person with aphasia who helped test the first version, Bruce Aisthorpe, and the Stroke Foundation. It was very exciting for the stroke/aphasia community to have a segment explaining aphasia on the mainstream news! A big thanks to everyone involved.
The TENplay link is here http://tenplay.com.au/news/brisbane/2016/7/26/new-tools-for-stroke-sufferers The UQ media release is here https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2016/07/speaking-measured-tones The eConnect media release is here http://freshscience.org.au/2016/speaking-pedometer-to-help-stroke-victims
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FreshScience is a national science communication competition, and our lead researcher, Dr Brandenburg, was among the 10 finalists for Queensland. For the presentation night, she made had around one minute to talk about CommFit research for a room of fellow scientists, media and policy makers. It was a great night for science communication, and a great opportunity to talk about aphasia with a room of people who may not have heard about it before. Congratulations to the winners Amanda Neilan and Sohinee Sarkar!
http://freshscience.org.au/events/south-queensland Our lead researcher, Dr Caitlin Brandenburg, was awarded the Nursing and Allied Health Scientific Award for her submission on CommFit to the Asia-Pacific Stroke Conference 2016. The APSC is a major international stroke conference, and this year was held in our base city, Brisbane. It was great to have some recognition for aphasia research from the wider stroke research community, and the presentation sparked some interest in this area!
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