Documentation: Arts Initiative in Medicine Interactive Environments to Facilitate Communication Between Post-Stroke Aphasia Patients and Health Care Providers Narrative
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This blog will document and update the project:
Arts Initiative in Medicine Interactive Environments to Facilitate Communication Between Post-Stroke Aphasia Patients and Health Care Providers Narrative
Aphasia team member, Dr. John Velez, currently at the Media School at Indiana University was interviewed about the VINI (Visual Interactive Narrative Intervention).
The Media School, IU Bloomington, IN
Dr. Melinda Corwin and Professor Stacy Elko presented information about the VINI at the APES, Animation and Public Engagement Symposium.
Dr. Melinda Corwin and I gave a public presentation about our arts in medicine project. Here is the video that we used to interact with bystanders. We interviewed almost 200 people and 80% of them had no idea what aphasia was. So our education ap that we are developing will be useful for not only person’s with aphasia to inform them about their condition, but also the public as well.
Dr. Melinda Corwin, TTUHSC, and Professor Stacy Elko, TTUSOA gave a public presentation of the VINI at the LHUCA (Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts). They engaged the public as to their knowledge of aphasia.
Our research was featured in Discoveries Magazine
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Great news! Our VINI project has been included as part of the Texas Tech University Talkington College of Visual and Performing Art NEA grant submission. The NEA granted the funding and we are beginning to develop a further iteration of the VINI based upon feedback and test results that we received this year.
Dr. Melinda Corwin, Dr. John Velez and I, Professor Stacy Elko attended the ASHA (American Speech, Hearing, Language Association) Conference in Boston Nov. 15-17 where we gave a technical presentation. I was pretty overwhelmed as there were over 15,000 attendees at the conference. Below is a shot of the vendor fair when I first arrived at the Boston Convention center.
John, Melinda and I at the conference.
