Journal Reviews

People with language-led dementia in India

2 November 2020 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Aphasia, bilingual, epidemiology, progressive

Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a language led dementia characterised by slowly worsening speech and language. It is associated with atrophy of the dominant temporal-parietal lobe regions and is commonly caused by frontotemporal or Alzheimer’s pathologies. There are three PPA...

Information to support decision-making: does it make sense online?

1 September 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Aphasia, consumer health information, health literacy, internet, online, readability

The internet has become a major source for health information, with many people preferring to use the internet to search for advice than speaking to health professionals. Yet much of the information available is very difficult to read for the...