Participate in Speech Therapy Research

To examine how effective participants find individual and/or group speech therapy for helping them maintain their involvement in conversation with their close social networks

Adults over 18 years old who have:

• A confirmed neurodegenerative diagnosis

• Speech-language changes that are a symptom of concern

• Carer/close person who can participate too

One or two pre-therapy testing sessions up to 120 minutes total time. We will ask you to do some speaking tasks.

Participation is over 12 months. You will receive either:

• Two 8-week blocks of weekly individual therapy. You can attend the individual sessions face-to-face or online

• Fortnightly group and two 8-week blocks of weekly individual therapy combined

• Fortnightly group therapy only.

We will ask you to do some progress testing each month – this will take about 30 minutes each time.

We will also ask you to tell us what you think about the therapy. This will happen in four interviews - one at the beginning of the study, one in the middle, one at the end, and one three months after you finish therapy.