QARC research
QARC has a range of different research projects in various stages of development. We've developed aphasia-friendly pages for each of these projects below:
ATTAIN
The Overcoming Systemic Barriers in Aphasia Care with the Aphasia Treatment TranslAtIon Network (ATTAIN) project aims to improve aphasia care within Australia for people with post-stroke aphasia.
Bridging the Digital Divide: Building Health Self-Efficacy through Communication-Accessible Online Environments
This project aims to co-design a software pack that will make it easier for people with aphasia to use the internet.
CHAT-Maintain
This project aims to see whether a home therapy program helped people to keep up therapy gains after intensive aphasia therapy.
Co-design of Aphasia Services
This project aims to determine the priorities for Queensland Aphasia Services.
Conversations About Care
This project aims to improve access to preventative health care through better conversations about care.
How successful are conversations between people with aphasia and their primary conversation partner?
This project aims to develop and validate a questionnaire to measure if people with aphasia and their conversation partner are having successful conversations together.
LifeCHAT: Empowering people to manage their own therapy at home
This project aims to develop a new smartphone app to help people with aphasia to manage their therapy and see how they have improved.
MEASuRES: Driving quality improvement through Meaningful Evaluation of Aphasia SeRvicES
This project aims to measure and monitor aphasia services.
Measuring what matters
This project aims to aid understanding of how well test scores measure real-life outcomes for people with aphasia.
Multilingual Aphasia Therapy Experiences
Researchers from UQ want to know what it is like to be a multilingual person with aphasia or significant other.
Music and language in the brain of older people
This project aims to look at the areas of the brain that are used for processing music and language.
SMS Study: Co-design of an intervention to support text messaging for adults with aphasia
Our research team are developing a therapy package to support text-messaging for people with aphasia.
Stimulating aphasia recovery with daily music listening
This project aims to design, test and explore the use of a music listening application and how to use music listening within early aphasia recovery.