Clinical research projects

Doctoral candidates ((co-) supervision)

Lea Plum (RWTH Aachen, ongoing)

Chris Heath (University of Manchester, UoM; completed)

Nourah Alohali (UoM, completed)

Lena Spitzer (RWTH Aachen, completed)

Franziska Krzok (RWTH Aachen, ongoing)

Katherine Gore (UoM; second supervision 10/2017-04/2019, after successful application to MRC (details))

For Awards and other promotions to supervised students see here (at the bottom).

Ongoing cooperative projects in the following areas:

Language-systematic aphasia screening (SAPS) and the appended therapy regimen (ESKOPA-TM)

Neuroscience-based aphasia therapy (NBAT)

Linguistic-executive therapy in aphasia:

- Interfered-naming therapy in aphasia (INTA)
- Diagnosis and therapy of cognitive flexibility in aphasia (CFA-screening, CFAT)

German adaption of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT-D)

Multimodal communicative abilities in adults and youth/children: Szenario-Test/-Kids

Language and music

Contribution to enterprises of European working groups

Contribution to clinical evaluation in external research projects

Past projects

Model-based therapy in aphasia – behavioural and neural effects

Verbal learning – Vocabulary training in healthy persons to mimic aphasia therapy

Progressive language disorders – aphasia due to dementia

Working memory

Model-driven aphasia therapy for lexical disorders

Errorless learning/ Vanishing cues

Lexical disorders in aphasia

Please consider that these projects usually have been located/financially supported in Germany, so titles/topics are given as translations from German to English.