Aware 4 Aphasia

We are a group of design students from the University of Dundee currently in our second year. Our first project of second year for Design Studies, we were set the task of looking into the condition of Aphasia. Our aim for this blog is to showcase some of our work from all 6 of the groups. We would love feedback and hope that we help make you aware of Aphasia…

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New 2nd Year blog: Understand Aphasia

This years design studies project named  ‘side by side’ for the academic year 2010/11 is drawing to an end, and like us here at Aware4Aphasia, the current 2nd years have been working very hard and have made their own website which has some interesting videos and useful information.

Here is their website called ‘Understand Aphasia’:

http://understandaphasia.wordpress.com/

Here are some videos from the current year group:

 

 

 

Becoming 21st century graduates poster

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Group 3: Presentation Boards

Group 2: Presentation Boards

Group 5: Presentation Boards

Here are some more presentation boards from our class.

Group 6: Presentation Boards

Here are the presentation boards which were submitted last week after the presentation along with the posters.

Group 6: Final Posters

Here we are, at the end of the project and the following posters are the final ones. The ones in which we thought would be good enough to make Aphasia aware in the general public, helping the lives of those who have it. As you can see, they are not serious posters like other medical awareness posters, they take on a humourous approach which should be enjoyed by all, whilst still conveying the message effectively.

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Speakability Event

On Thursday 19^th November selected students from each group in our Design Studies class attended an Aphasia event day ran by Edinburgh Speakability. The aim of the day was to meet with the self-help groups from around Scotland and gave us the opportunity to listen to guest speakers, including medical specialists and organisations who had worked closely with the Speakability. The day started well with the invited groups sharing where and what they had been up to from the previous months. It was very intriguing to hear what the group had been up to, and came apparent that they really enjoyed dining out. We were given the opportunity at lunch to speak to the group members, asking them how they deal with having Aphasia. Their responses were very useful and will help us in writing out report.

One of the main reflections from all of us that attended was that Aphasia doesn’t have to hold you back, the group members were very active and weren’t at all negative. They all had interesting stories to tell us and I think we all got a lot out of our day.

Thank you to Speakability and its members for allowing us to attend the day.