In this episode Matt talks to Adhe Noviello about his experiences living with Brocas's (non-fluent) aphasia, his work with the Stroke Organisation, and his music created as part of UCL's Aphasia New Music Group.

Adhe's recommendations (for karaoke):

All American Rejects - Move Along

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

Ne-Yo - Because of You

In the episode Adhe also mentions completing his masters (which Matt forgot to ask about). Adhe was kind enough to elaborate afterwards over email: " I completed my MSc in Big Data and Data Science Technology last year. It was quite a shift from my bachelor’s degree, as the focus was mainly on analysing large datasets, programming, and applying machine learning techniques. It was definitely challenging at times, but I enjoy pushing myself and taking on new challenge, it keeps things exciting."

Congratulations on completing your masters Adhe!

UCL's Aphasia New Music Group : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/pals/research/language-and-cognition/aphasia-new-music-group

In this episode Matt talks to Alex O'Sullivan, an SLT working in the Regional Hyper-acute Rehabilitation Unit at Northwick Park Hospital, about prolonged disorders of consciousness and the role mental capacity and Speech therapy plays in their treatment.

Links to further PDOC and Mental Capacity resources:

• Healthtalk - Family Experiences of Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States Healthtalk
• Mencap - What is The Mental Capacity Act? | Mencap
• 39 Essex Chambers - Mental Capacity Resource Centre | 39 Essex Chambers
• Headway - Headway - the brain injury association | Headway

Alex's Recommendations:

• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101138-wolf-hall

• Chopin piano competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFTHzzFA-TQ

In this new episode, Matt Austin talks to speech therapist and tech savant Richard Cave about his journey from receiving speech therapy to becoming a speech therapist, his groundbreaking work in AAC with the innovative Project Euphonia, and the latest advances in AI Voice Banking.

If you are interested in Helping Richard with the development of Project Euphonia he can be contacted on this email:

richard.cave.17@ucl.ac.uk

Richard's Recommendation (AriAtHome):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjH9zb009-E